Even though my fellowship at the Maryland State Archives is wrapping up I still feel the crunch of demands. On April 27, I served as a judge for the state-wide competition of National History Day and for the last several weeks I’ve revised and improved my documents in the classroom exercise. Arranging a ride to…
(The original August, 2012 post contained many, many pictures. Due to extensive re-working and re-coding necessary to fix the irregularities caused by transferring photos from Blogger feel free to see the pictures here.) This blog comes late partly because Microsoft Word 2007 and Dropbox colluded to rob me of my precious prose. On Sunday night…
Week eight marks the two-thirds point of the HistoryMakers Fellowship 2012 summer institute. I knew almost since the day of acceptance that it would be taxing psychologically, with long hours in an unfamiliar city, but also taxing intellectually as I worked under a non-archivist with very particular needs and desires. Although I have experience with…
Counterfactual Archivist 