At the 2019 SAA annual Meeting in Austin, TX, the Archival History Section was treated to a lecture on the history of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin by Stephen Mielke. Mielke is the Ransom Center Archivist and Collections Librarian as well as Head of Description & Access (Archival... Continue Reading →
de Hamel, Christopher. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World (New York: Penguin Press, 2017) vii + 640pp. ISBN: 978-1594206115. Christopher de Hamel, the world’s leading consultant on medieval manuscripts, currently resides in Great Britain. Throughout his varied career, de Hamel has worked as a cataloger at Sotheby’s and holds the record for cataloguing... Continue Reading →
“I have not heard from you for a long time. I fear you are buried under an avalanche of autographs.” -Jared Sparks to William Buell Sprague (1845)[1] In 1834, the American Antiquarian Society's tireless librarian, Christopher Columbus Baldwin (1800-1835), exhaled that he was "heartily glad [William Buell Sprague] has left New England." A Presbyterian minister in Albany,... Continue Reading →
Do you know of a recent article that excels in the field of archival history? Find information regarding the Archival History Section's Archival History Article award and criteria for nominations. Purpose and Criteria for Selection: This prize encourages and rewards an article or other short piece of superior excellence in the field of archival history,... Continue Reading →
