At the August 12th meeting of the Archival History Section (of the Society of American Archivists), the 2020 Archival History Award was given to two equally deserving articles: Melanie Shell-Weiss, Grand Valley State University for "Good Intentions: Grappling with Legacies of Conflict and Distrust Surrounding a Native American Oral History Project One Generation Later" Oral... Continue Reading →
Winner of 2019 Archival History Award: Wolfe and Stallybrass for “Material Culture of Record-Keeping”
At the August meeting of the Archival History Section (of the Society of American Archivists), the 2019 Archival History Award was given to Heather Wolfe and Peter Stallybrass for their jointly written article, “The Material Culture of Record-Keeping in Early Modern England.” Printed in Archives and Information in the Early Modern World, edited by Liesbeth... Continue Reading →
Recap: SAA 2019’s Archival History Section Meeting
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 →