The NHPRC in the New Records Age

This article examines the NHPRC's records programs, particularly its electronic records program, its efforts to strengthen the national archival infrastructure through collaboration with the states, and its support for archival continuing education and the documentation of ethnic, racial, gender-based and other groups representative of diversity within the United States. It discusses ways in which the NHPRC, created during the 1930s, is rising to the challenges of a new records age, an age defined not only by the new records formats which began emerging in the latter decades of the twentieth century, but also by the political realities confronting archivists at the dawn of the twenty-first century.