NARA’s 75th Anniversary

This year is the 75^th anniversary of the law that established the U.S. National Archives to keep the nation’s records “until the end of the republic.”

Today I subscribed to a new type of government record, the President’s blog. A few years ago, I published an article on the archival value of blogs. It is good that NARA is around to preserve such things.

Image: “The Future,” at the National Archives Building. The inscription on the statue, “What is Past is Prologue,” comes from Shakespeare’s The Tempest.