Research Guides: Archival Research: Further Reading

On Archives

General Research Skills

Archives-Related

“Archival Research” in The Princeton Guide to Historical Research, Zachary M. Schrag (2021)
Archival Strategies and Techniques, Michael R. Hill (1993)
"Archival Terminology" in NARA's Archives and Records Management Resources
Archives and Special Collections as Sites of Contestation, Mary Kandiuk, ed. (2020)
Archives, Access and Artificial Intelligence, Jaillant Lise (2022)
Archives Power: Memory, Accountability, and Social Justice, RC Jimerson (2009)
Community Archives, Community Spaces: Heritage, Memory and Identity, Bastian & Flinn (2020)
Defining a Discipline: Archival Research and Practice in the Twenty-First Century - Essays in Honor of Richard J. Cox, Bastian and Yakel, eds. (2020)
Getting Started - Research, National Archives
Global Debates in the Digital Humanities, Fiormonte, Sukanta, and Paola, eds. (2022)
Going to the Sources: A Guide to Historical Research and Writing, Anthony Brundage (2017)
A History of Participation in Museums and Archives: Traversing Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities Hetland and Pierroux, eds. (2020)
Introduction to Archival Organization and Description, Getty Publications (2008)
"Principles of Arrangement," Staff Information Paper no. 18, by Theodore R. Schellenberg, National Archives (1951)
Processing the Past: Contesting Authority in History and the Archives, Blouin and Rosenberg (2011)
Producing the Archival Body, Jamie A. Lee (2021)
The Remaking of Archival Values, Victoria Hoyle (2023)
Teaching Through the Archives: Text, Collaboration, and Activism, Graban and Hayden, eds. (2022)
Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age, Adam Crymble (2021)
"Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines," Marlene Manhoff (2004)
Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives, Charlotte Nunes, ed. (2023)
Turning Archival: The Life of the Historical in Queer Studies, Marshall and Tortorici, eds. (2022)
Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives, Gesa Kirsch (2023)
Urgent Archives : Enacting Liberatory Memory Work, Michelle Caswell (2021)
Using Archives: A Guide to Effective Research, SAA
"Using Finding Aids" in Teaching Bibliographic Skills in History: A Sourcebook for Historians and Librarians, Charles A. D'Aniello, ed. (1993)

Archives in the News: A Zotero Collection of Articles Related to Archives

Library Blogs: Dispatches from the Field

Following are links to a few noteworthy library blogs and websites that provide an introduction to particular collections and a glimpse into what's going on in the world of archives.