Sarah Jones Weicksel

Sarah Jones Weicksel is a historian and executive director of the American Historical Association. Her scholarship includes American material culture and the Civil War era.

What DI has documented

DI has documented statements by Sarah Jones Weicksel on Government Transparency and U.S. Politics. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Sarah Jones Weicksel

Sarah Jones Weicksel

Role at the time: Executive director of the American Historical Association

Condemned

Statement summary

Weicksel argues that removing mandatory preservation would prevent historians from understanding presidential decisions.

“Every time a record is destroyed, a piece of history is lost.”
Read the official statement (opens in a new tab)Chukwu and Weicksel defend presidential-record preservationStatements by Chioma Chukwu and Sarah Weicksel
Why we used this label

Weicksel opposes abandoning mandatory preservation because she says the resulting loss of records would prevent historical understanding.

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