| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Virtual Museum & Archive of sec and Securities History, http://www.sechistorical.org/. Created and maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society, Washington, D.C. Reviewed April 1, 2006.
If, as many scholars have argued, federal regulatory agencies have a life cycle that begins with a promising birth, proceeds into aggressive adolescence, thence into a midlife crisis, and finally enters senility and decline, a similar trajectory may be found in this online museum and archive devoted to the history of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Web site is independent of the sec, but draws financial support from law firms that practice before the agency and entities subject to its jurisdiction.	1
The museum and archive contains a timeline, papers, photos, oral histories, online programs, and links to other resources. The site begins by providing visitors with a solid documentary record of key legislative and administrative decisions, and it also supplements those public sources with photos and a broad sample of private correspondence from the sec's major actors in its formative years. The material in the archives that date closer to the present day, however, are predominantly readily available public sources, supplemented by several dozen oral histories and other materials (such as its employee newsletters) of interest only to the most avid followers of the agency's life.	. . .

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