Defining a Discipline: Archival Research and Practice in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor of Richard J. Cox
edited by Jeannette A. Bastian and Elizabeth Yakel
Society of American Archivists, 2020 Paper: 978-1-945246-27-2 | eISBN: 978-1-945246-28-9 Library of Congress Classification CD931.D44 2020 Dewey Decimal Classification 027.0072
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ABOUT THIS BOOK Fourteen archivists present a mosaic of the research that represents the current state of archival science and introduces themes that will carry the profession into the future as a complex academic discipline. As the archival profession in the United States continues to evolve, the book honors one of its most prolific and influential thinkers and writers, Richard J. Cox, who retired from the profession in 2017 after a 45-year career. The book addresses the archival themes of accountability and evidence, ethics and education, archival history, and memory.
Defining a Discipline demonstrates the importance of the role of archivists, archives, and archival institutions in communities, organizations, and the digital environment. It looks forward—a direction that the pioneering Cox promoted throughout his career.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION | vii Jeannette A. Bastian and Elizabeth Yakel
THEME ONE: ACCOUNTABILITY AND EVIDENCE
1 A Reservoir of No Viability? The Documentary Politics of US Atrocities and War Crimes in Vietnam | 2 David A. Wallace 2 The Question of Oral Testimony in the Archival Concept of Evidence | 28 Wendy Duff and Jefferson Sporn 3 “Carry It Forward”: Community-Based Conceptualizations of Accountability | 48 Michelle Caswell, Joyce Gabiola, Gracen Brilmyer, and Jimmy Zavala 4 Of Truth, Evidence, and Trust: Records and Archives in the Era of Misinformation and Disinformation | 62 Luciana Duranti 5 Commentary: Accountability and Evidence | 76 Heather Soyka
THEME TWO: ETHICS AND EDUCATION
6 Records as Evidence, Text, and Narrative: Framing the Ethical Dimensions of Integrity | 84 Heather MacNeil 7 NARA and the Private Email Account: The Agency’s Response to the Clinton Email Case | 102 Eleanor Mattern 8 Movement and Transformation: Teaching to the Fourth Dimension | 125 Anne J. Gilliland and Kathy Carbone 9 Commentary: Ethics and Education | 145 Alison Langmead
THEME THREE: ARCHIVAL HISTORY
10 Representing the Others: Storytelling Dynamics in a Community Archives | 154 Donghee Sinn 11 Makerspaces as Archives/Archives as Makerspaces: Making and the Materiality of Archival Practice | 172 Lindsay Kistler Mattock 12 From Camp Pitt to Mississippi: Ten Years to a State Digital Archive | 192 Patricia Galloway 13 Commentary: Archival History | 209 Robert B. Riter
THEME FOUR: MEMORY
14 Fiesta Videos: Living and Producing Social Memory of El rancho | 218 Janet Ceja Alcalá 15 Where There’s a Will: On Heir Property, African American Land Stories, and the Value of Oral Records in American Archives | 238 Tonia Sutherland 16 The Road to Memory: Beyond Touchstones and Triggers | 256 Jeannette A. Bastian 17 Commentary: Memory | 273 Joel Blanco-Rivera 18 Richard Cox and the 1950 Generation | 277 James O’Toole
ABOUT THE AUTHORS | 288
INDEX | 297
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Defining a Discipline: Archival Research and Practice in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor of Richard J. Cox
edited by Jeannette A. Bastian and Elizabeth Yakel
Society of American Archivists, 2020 Paper: 978-1-945246-27-2 eISBN: 978-1-945246-28-9
Fourteen archivists present a mosaic of the research that represents the current state of archival science and introduces themes that will carry the profession into the future as a complex academic discipline. As the archival profession in the United States continues to evolve, the book honors one of its most prolific and influential thinkers and writers, Richard J. Cox, who retired from the profession in 2017 after a 45-year career. The book addresses the archival themes of accountability and evidence, ethics and education, archival history, and memory.
Defining a Discipline demonstrates the importance of the role of archivists, archives, and archival institutions in communities, organizations, and the digital environment. It looks forward—a direction that the pioneering Cox promoted throughout his career.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION | vii Jeannette A. Bastian and Elizabeth Yakel
THEME ONE: ACCOUNTABILITY AND EVIDENCE
1 A Reservoir of No Viability? The Documentary Politics of US Atrocities and War Crimes in Vietnam | 2 David A. Wallace 2 The Question of Oral Testimony in the Archival Concept of Evidence | 28 Wendy Duff and Jefferson Sporn 3 “Carry It Forward”: Community-Based Conceptualizations of Accountability | 48 Michelle Caswell, Joyce Gabiola, Gracen Brilmyer, and Jimmy Zavala 4 Of Truth, Evidence, and Trust: Records and Archives in the Era of Misinformation and Disinformation | 62 Luciana Duranti 5 Commentary: Accountability and Evidence | 76 Heather Soyka
THEME TWO: ETHICS AND EDUCATION
6 Records as Evidence, Text, and Narrative: Framing the Ethical Dimensions of Integrity | 84 Heather MacNeil 7 NARA and the Private Email Account: The Agency’s Response to the Clinton Email Case | 102 Eleanor Mattern 8 Movement and Transformation: Teaching to the Fourth Dimension | 125 Anne J. Gilliland and Kathy Carbone 9 Commentary: Ethics and Education | 145 Alison Langmead
THEME THREE: ARCHIVAL HISTORY
10 Representing the Others: Storytelling Dynamics in a Community Archives | 154 Donghee Sinn 11 Makerspaces as Archives/Archives as Makerspaces: Making and the Materiality of Archival Practice | 172 Lindsay Kistler Mattock 12 From Camp Pitt to Mississippi: Ten Years to a State Digital Archive | 192 Patricia Galloway 13 Commentary: Archival History | 209 Robert B. Riter
THEME FOUR: MEMORY
14 Fiesta Videos: Living and Producing Social Memory of El rancho | 218 Janet Ceja Alcalá 15 Where There’s a Will: On Heir Property, African American Land Stories, and the Value of Oral Records in American Archives | 238 Tonia Sutherland 16 The Road to Memory: Beyond Touchstones and Triggers | 256 Jeannette A. Bastian 17 Commentary: Memory | 273 Joel Blanco-Rivera 18 Richard Cox and the 1950 Generation | 277 James O’Toole
ABOUT THE AUTHORS | 288
INDEX | 297
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