Ascendant political leaders and new political institutions gain power and develop legitimacy by controlling the archival record, as this year’s Archival History Section Meeting in Portland has demonstrated. In one of the largest section gatherings of recent memory, over 50 attendees in the room (and one over Skype) heard two presentations by current Chair, Dr.... Continue Reading →
For the first half of its 30 year career, the Archival History Roundtable printed a newsletter. Between February 1987 and the summer of 2000, the Archival History Roundtable printed and distributed fourteen newsletters, all of which are now available and word-searchable as single PDFs on the SAA-Archival History Section’s microsite, or as an omnibus PDF... Continue Reading →
Editor of The American Archivist, Gregory S. Hunter, explains in the most recent issue that “English-speaking archivists have much to learn from the professional literature of other nations.”[1] Indeed, since the 1940s, translations have graced the pages of The American Archivist. In 1941, the medieval philologist and ‘Monuments Man’ Lester K. Born presented “Baldassare Bonifacio... Continue Reading →
Celebrating its 90th year of public service, the Sargeant Memorial Collection (SMC) is the archives and special collections department of the Norfolk Public Library. The SMC is named in honor of William Henry Sargeant, the first librarian for the Norfolk Public Library. It is housed within the beautiful, state-of-the-art Slover Library in downtown Norfolk, Virginia,... Continue Reading →
"The function of the historian thus is to jog the social memory, to study the experience of society in the past and to set forth his findings for the service of the present." -- Waldo G. Leland (1917), "Concerning Catholic Historical Societies," Catholic Historical Review 2 (January 1917): 386-399, p. 386. Free online at The... Continue Reading →
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