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Allen Weinstein is the Archivist of the United States. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on February 16, 2005.

Contents 1 Career 2 Activities 3 Publications 4 Criticism 5 Notes 6 External links

The son of Russian immigrants, Weinstein was born in New York in 1937, the youngest of three children. His parents were deli owners in the Bronx. He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and City College of New York, then received a PhD in American Studies from Yale University. He taught at Smith College from 1966 to 1981. In 1981, he moved to Georgetown University, where he was a professor until 1984. In 1982, he was a member of the U.S. delegation to the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies, and in 1983 he served on the U.S. delegation to the UNESCO-sponsored International Program for the Development of Communication. He was a Professor of History at Boston University from 1985 to 1989.

From 1985 to 2003, he served as President of The Center for Democracy. At the request of Senators Lugar and Pell of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Center for Democracy organized a bipartisan group of election lawyers to oversee the preparations for the February 1986 elections in the Philippines. At President Reagan's request, Weinstein returned to the Philippines to continue to monitor the election procedures. The Center drafted the official report of the U.S. Observer Delegation, and went on to work with President Aquino's government on matters of electoral procedure.

Weinstein was a founding member in 1985 of the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace and Chairman of its Education and Training Committee, remaining a Director until 2001, and now serves on the Chairman’s Advisory Council. He was a founding officer of the International Institute of Democracy in Strasbourg from 1989 to 2001. He chaired the Judging Panel for the annual International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award from 1995-2003. He serves on the Advisory Council of the LBJ School of Public Affairs (University of Texas-Austin). He is Chairman of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Advisory Council. He chaired the annual "Global Panel" in the Netherlands from 1993-98. From 1982-91 he was a member of the Foreign Policy Association's Editorial Advisory Board.

• Prelude to Populism: Origins of the Silver Issue, 1867–1878 (Yale University Press, 1970) (ISBN 0-300-01229-2)
• Freedom and Crisis: An American History (Random House, 1974)
• Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case (Knopf 1978) (ISBN 0-394-49546-2)
• The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—The Stalin Era (with Alexander Vassiliev) (Random House, 1999) (ISBN 0-679-45724-0)

Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review, who agrees with Weinstein about the Hiss case, has written that Weinstein has “a weakness for mystification.” ^[1]

1. Sam Tanenhaus, "Tangled Treason," The New Republic, July 5, 1999, 28.

• "Testimony of Allen Weinstein Regarding His Nomination as Archivist of the United States" July 22, 2004
• Allen Weinstein Becomes Ninth Archivist of the United States, The American Historical Association.
• Interview, September 18, 2005, on Q&A
• Jon Wiener, "The Archives and Allen Weinstein," The Nation
• Victor Navasky, "Allen Weinstein's Docudrama," The Nation

Preceded by John W. Carlin

Archivist of the United States 2005–

Succeeded by —