Research
From the Archives: Curiosity’s Cats
By the time this post is available for you to read, I will be deep in the final day of a four-day exploration of a previously untouched and barely organized archive. I hope to come out the other end knowing whether I have enough material to write a proposal about a subject I’m interested in. …
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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Elaine Weiss
Elaine Weiss is a journalist, public speaker and author of three works of narrative women’s history: The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote and Fruits of Victory: The Women’s Land Army of America in the Great War, and, most recently, Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools that Built the Civil Rights Movement. She…
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Calling All Citizen Archivists
Depending on where you hang out online or what news media you listen to, you may have heard a call from the National Archives Catalog for volunteers with the “superpower” of reading cursive to join their Citizen Archivist program.* Almost thirty thousand new catalogers signed-up in the week after the call went out—100 times their…
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