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Radical Politics and Everyday Struggles: Using Archives and Oral History to Explain the Past
Eladio Bobadilla | Jul 21, 2015
Part of what makes doing history so exciting is that the questions and interpretive challenges never really end. In the... -
Bridging Space and Time in a History Presentation Extravaganza
Christopher Dunlap | Jul 9, 2015
In early June, as Chicago’s non-existent spring of 2015 melted into the rainy first days of summer, ten PhD students... -
Field Notes from Angola: Of Archived Archives and Anarchic Archives
Marcia Schenck | Jul 6, 2015
Somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, sometime in the new millennium: After a few days of negotiating my way into a provincial... -
Imperial Ends
Pillarisetti Sudhir | Jul 1, 2015
Empires might have been created in fits of absentmindedness. But a mindful and dedicated research impulse is required for recovering... -
At the First ScholarFest, Conversations and Connections
Stephanie Kingsley | Jun 24, 2015
This past Thursday, staff from the AHA and the National History Center headed to the Kluge Center at the Library... -
Being There
Kate Brown | Jun 15, 2015
Several weeks ago, historian Kate Brown spoke for the Washington History Seminar, hosted by the National History Center and the... -
Field Notes from Angola: Familiar Foreign Country – a Historian’s Research Travels
Marcia Schenck | Jun 11, 2015
Historians are travelers—travelers of the heart, the mind, and of the body. In 1953, L.P. Heartly acknowledged, “The past is... -
Ecological Explorations on Staten Island: Contemporary Landscapes and Archival Paper Trails
Patrick Nugent | Jun 10, 2015
I came to Staten Island by way of a volcano. In 2009, I traveled to Mount St. Helens National Volcanic... -
Introducing #ScholarFest
Jason Steinhauer | May 4, 2015
What happens when you take 70 scholars from multiple disciplines, put them in a room together, and ask them to... -
National Archives Invites You to Discuss Prioritizing Declassification
Megan Phillips | Apr 3, 2015
Have you used declassified US government records for your research? Are there still-classified records that you’d really like to see?The...
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