T.J. Stiles received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History, the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
and the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction. He is a member of the governing boards of the Society of American Historians and the Organization of American Historians.
America is losing its memory. The National Archives and Records Administration
is in a budget crisis. More than a resource for historians or museum of founding documents, NARA stands at the heart of American democracy. It keeps the accounts of our struggles and triumphs, allows the people to learn what their government has done and is doing, and maintains records that fill in family histories. Genealogy researchers depend on it, as do journalists filing Freedom of Information Act requests. If Congress doesn’t save it, we all will suffer.
