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Society of Tennessee Archivists Gives Awards to Students and Professionals
The Society of Tennessee Archivists (STA) had its annual meeting and workshops this year from November 11-13, 2009. This year two awards were given to students in the form of scholarships to allow the… more →
A Blog for Archivists, Historians & Others Interested in Tennesee Methodist History
Society of Tennessee Archivists Gives Awards to Students and Professionals
Jim wrote 1 week ago: The Society of Tennessee Archivists (STA) had its annual meeting and workshops this year from Novemb … more →
"Doing" Oral History & Comments on SEJ Oral History Workshop
Jim wrote 1 week ago: I found that the workshop I did on oral history at the SEJ Preservation weekend seemed to be well re … more →
Back From SEJ History Preservation Workshop
Jim wrote 1 week ago: I just returned from the biannual SEJ History Preservation Workshop where I presented a workshop on … more →
Historian, Minister, Manager, Scientist: Comments on Other Posts
Jim wrote 2 months ago: The discussion regarding the role and responsibility of archivists/historians/records managers is in … more →
Though I May Be Found Wanting, Let Me Not Be Found Clueless
Jim wrote 3 months ago: I would like all to consider the effects on both our study of history and attempts to preserve it th … more →
My Experience in Second Life Archives
Jim wrote 3 months ago: The other day I had a fascinating experience. During my lunch hour I created an avatar ( a computer … more →
Heritage Events: Research and Present vs. Celebrate, Share and Record
Jim wrote 5 months ago: People on occasion contact me hoping to get information to present as part of a Heritage Celebration … more →
Researching Your Church Family Tree #2: In Search of the Local Pastor List
Jim wrote 5 months ago: I frequently receive requests (and since I’ve been at this particular job for a very short tim … more →
Paper or Plastic, er, PDF.
Jim wrote 5 months ago: During a dinner with some other historians the other evening, we had a very short discussion about w … more →
Remembering the Miners' Strike
gesta wrote 8 months ago: This month saw the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike. When the s … more →
exceptable
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eb wrote 3 years ago: What does [national] exceptionalism mean? Is it a measure of degree? There’s distinctive, and … more →
foci of history
eb wrote 3 years ago: Eric Rauchway has responded to my call for someone to make a case for an “increased focus on p … more →
politics by other ends
eb wrote 3 years ago: I would like to see someone lay out, post by post, a case for an increased focus on political histor … more →
specialization and its discontents (short version)
eb wrote 4 years ago: I’m putting together a longer post on the problem of specialization vs grand narrative in hist … more →
the historian's craft
eb wrote 4 years ago: The grim esoterism, in which even the best of us sometimes fall, the preponderance, in our current w … more →
