“Archival data provide a fundamental starting point for public conversation on the details of political conflict and compromise. They guard against revisionist interpretations of our political past.”
Professor Elizabeth Sharrow just published an article in the Social Science Research Council’s “Parameters” Digital Culture Forum. Drawing on her own work on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, “Papers for the Present: Government Archives and Remembering the Past” exposes the crucial importance of governmental archival data in the context of Trump’s presidency.