¶ 1 United States Senator Kenneth McKellar (Democrat, Tennessee) argued on the Senate floor in 1944 that a professor of archival administration at American University in Washington, DC, was part of an elaborate plot to destroy the archives of the United States. Ernst Posner—the former Berlin State Archivist living in exile—was a close associate of … Continue reading Sovereignty and Silence: The Creation of a Myth of Archival Destruction, Liège, 1408