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Archival Communities: Constructing the Past in the Early United States
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The story behind the creation of the first archives in the new United States
Archives, the foundational resource for historical research, do not emerge from a vacuum. The records, documents, and data that make up the historian’s quarry are never neutral but are themselves the product of historical forces and individual choices. What materials are included in the archive, and why? Whose voices are preserved for posterity, and whose are silenced? In recent years, scholars have increasingly ma...
Archives, the foundational resource for historical research, do not emerge from a vacuum. The records, documents, and data that make up the historian’s quarry are never neutral but are themselves the product of historical forces and individual choices. What materials are included in the archive, and why? Whose voices are preserved for posterity, and whose are silenced? In recent years, scholars have increasingly ma...