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trudy peterson

English
1967

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"There is a vibrancy of being in touch with a piece of history."

Trudy Peterson has done just that. From her early work at the Hoover Presidential Library to rising through the ranks of the National Archivist, eventually becoming the acting Archivist of the United States for more than two years during the Clinton Administration. Now a consultant, Trudy has worked with records in South Africa during the apartheid period to working with the United Nations on records of refugee situations throughout the world. "History helps stitch us together - the good, bad and ugly. "We save the glorious records - the Emancipation Proclamation, the Declaration of Independence – but we also have to save those records that don't make us feel as proud because those records are our history too."

"You need the contrast of the good to make the bad understandable."