1. Review the strange, sad case of Mark Hoffman and discuss how historians and archivists could have become so completely fooled by his forgeries.
2. Review at least two well-known document forgeries and discuss how they are object lessons for archivists.
3. What are some of the long-term problems with digital storage and how do these problems affect electronic media held by archivists.
4. Discuss references to archives and archivists in popular culture. What is the public perception of archivists.
5. Go over the situation with the Jack Anderson archives and the FBI. What are some of issues that this raises for archivists?
6. How do we document the undocumented?
7. Every politician is cognizant of creating "plausable deniability" through the documents they leave behind. Give a few examples of how politicians have altered, squelched, or suppressed archival material that pertained to their office.