Beyond the archives
Subtitle: research as a lived process
By: edited by Gesa E. Kirsch and Liz Rohan ; with a foreword by Lucille M. Schultz.
Contributors: Kirsch, Gesa.; Rohan, Liz, 1967-
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9780809328406
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Research; History -- Methodology; History -- Archival resources; Archives -- Research -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The role of serendipity, family connections, and cultural memory in historical research / Gesa E. Kirsch and Liz Rohan; title: The accidental archivist : embracing chance and confusion in historical scholarship / David Gold; title: Being on location : serendipity, place, and archival research / Gesa E. Kirsch; title: Getting to know them : concerning research into four early women writers / Christine Mason Sutherland; title: Making connections / Alicia Nitecki; title: Traces of the familiar : family archives as primary source material / Wendy B. Sharer; title: The biography of a graveyard / Ronald R. Stockton; title: In a treeless landscape : a research narrative / Kathleen Wider; title: My grandfather's trunk / Barry Rohan; title: Colonial memory, colonial research : a preamble to a case study / Victor Villanueva; title: Unbundling : archival research and Japanese American communal memory of U.S. Justice Department internment, 1941-45 / Gail Y. Okawa; title: Mississippi on my mind / W. Ralph Eubanks; title: Dreaming Charles Eastman : cultural memory, autobiography, and geography in indigenous rhetorical histories / Malea Powell; title: Cultural memory and the lesbian archive / Kate Davy; title: "I see dead people" : archive, crypt, and an argument for the researcher's sixth sense / Elizabeth (Betsy) Birmingham; title: Stitching and writing a life / Liz Rohan; title: When two stories collide, they catch fire / Anca Vlasopolos; title: Stumbling in the archives : a tale of two novices / Lisa Mastrangelo and Barbara L'Eplattenier.