Archival History Section of the Society of American Archivists: Bibliography of American Archival History October 2016 © This is a select edition of a bibliography first released online in March 2015, and revised in May 2015, August 2015, and August 2016. The online version was a group effort of the Society of American Archivists’ Archival History Roundtable (now Section), which included steering committee members: Alison Clemens, Lorraine Madway, Cory Nimer, Krista Oldham, Kelly Kolar, Robert Riter, and Eric Stoykovich. Dr. David B. Gracy II contributed syllabi which provided many of these bibliographic entries. Contents American Archival Developments through 1898…………….1 American Archival Developments after 1898………………..5 1 | Bibliography of American Archival History American Archival Developments through 1898 Barrow, William J. “Black Writing Ink of the Colonial Period.” American Archivist 11 (October 1948): 291‑307. Online: http://americanarchivist. org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.11.4.903256p5lp2g3354 Benavides, Adán. Loss by Division: the Commandancy General Archive of the Eastern Interior Provinces. Austin: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1988. Bradsher, James Gregory. “An Administrative History of the Disposal of Federal Records, 1789‑1949.” Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists 3, no. 2 (Fall 1985): 1‑21. Online: http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/provenance/vol3/iss2/2 Bradsher, James Gregory. “A Brief History of the Growth of Federal Government Records, Archives and Information, 1789‑1985.” Government Publications Review 13, no. 4 (July/August 1986): 491‑505. Available online at cost. Chandler, Alfred D. and James W. Cortada, eds. A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Cole, John Y. “A National Monument for a National Library: Ainsworth Rand Spofford and the New Library of Congress, 1871-1897.” Records of the Columbia Historical Society 71-72 (1971/1972): 468-507. Available online at cost. Cookridge, E.H. The Baron of Arizona. New York: John Day Co., 1967. Coulter, E. Merton. Joseph Vallence Bevan: Georgia’s First Official Historian. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1964. Cox, Richard J. “A Century of Frustration: The Movement for a State Archives in Maryland, 1811‑1935.” Maryland Historical Magazine 78, no. 2 (Summer 1983): 106‑117. Online: http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/ msa/speccol/sc5800/sc5881/000001/000000/000311/pdf/msa_sc_5881_ 1_311.pdf 2 | Bibliography of American Archival History Crisp, James E. “The Little Book That Wasn’t There: The Myth and Mystery of the de la Pena Diary.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 98, no. 2 (Oct 1994): 261-296. Online: http://texashistory.unt.edu/ ark:/67531/metapth101216/m1/299/ Densmore, Christopher. “Understanding and Using Early Nineteenth Century Account Books.” Midwestern Archivist 5 (1980): 5‑20. Online: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/44631 Dunlap, Leslie W. American Historical Societies, 1790‑1860. Madison: Cantwell Print Co., 1944. Duranti, Luciana. “The Odyssey of Records Managers--Part II.” ARMA Records Management Quarterly 23, no. 4 (October 1989): 3-6, 8-11. Available online at cost. Echard, Siân. “House Arrest: Modern Archives, Medieval Manuscripts.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30, no. 2 (Spring 2000): 185-210. Available online at cost. Everly, Elaine C. “The Local Impact of the War Office Fire of 1800.” Washington History (Spring/Summer 2000): 8-10. Gracy, David B. II. “‘Just As I Have Written It’: A Study of the Authenticity of the Manuscript of Jose Enrique de la Peña’s Account of the Texas Campaign.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 105, no. 2 (October 2001): 255-291. Online: http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101222/m1/285/ Gracy, David B. II. The State Library and Archives of Texas: A History, 1835-1962. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. Groneman, Bill. Defense of a Legend: Crockett and the De la Peña Diary. Plano: Republic of Texas Press, 1994. Hamilton, J.G. de Roulhac. “Three Centuries of Southern Records, 1607 ‑1907.” Journal of Southern History 10 (February 1944): 3‑36. Available online at cost. 3 | Bibliography of American Archival History Harper, Josephine L. “Lyman C. Draper and Early American Archives.” American Archivist 15 (July 1952): 205‑212. Online: http:// americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.15.3.26113227n79q5g43 Hood, Clifton. “The Fragmented Past: Archives in New York City, 1804- 1996.” Archives and the Metropolis. Ed. M.V. Roberts. London: Guild Library Publications in association with the Centre for Metropolitan History, 1998. 147-156. Jones, H.G., ed. Historical Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Origins of State Historical Societies, Museums, and Collections, 1791- 1861. Chapel Hill: North Caroliniana Society and North Carolina Collection, 1995. Ketelaar, Eric. The Archival Image: Collected Essays. Hilversum, Netherlands: Verloren, 1997. Ketelaar, Eric. “Muniments and monuments: the dawn of archives as cultural patrimony.” Archival Science 7, no. 4 (December 2007): 343-357. Available online at cost. Lokke, Carl L. “The Captured Confederate Records Under Francis Lieber.” American Archivist 9 (October 1946): 277-319. Freely accessed on December 1, 2015: http://americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/ 10.17723/aarc.9.4.c736554789t63013 Martin, Thomas P. “Early American Interest in Historical Sources and Archives.” ALA Public Documents, 1937. 228‑232. Not available online. Muller, S., J.A. Feith, and R. Fruin. Manual for the Arrangement and Description of Archives. [1898] Trans. Arthur H. Leavitt. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1968. O’Toole, James M. “Democracy—and Documents—in America.” American Archivist 65 (Spring/Summer 2002): 107-115. Online: http:// americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.65.1.d144375q84w1w778 Powell, Donald M. The Peralta Grant: James Addison Reavis and the Barony of Arizona. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. 4 | Bibliography of American Archival History Purcell, Aaron D. “Abstractions of Justice: The Library of Congress’s Great Manuscripts Robbery, 1896-1897.” American Archivist 62 (Fall 1999): 325-345. Online: http://americanarchivist.org/ doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.62.2.34651kg3k10766h0 Riley, Stephen T. The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1791‑1959. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1959. Russell, Bill. “The White Man’s Paper Burden: Aspects of Records Keeping in the Department of Indian Affairs, 1860-1914.” Canadian Archival Studies and the Rediscovery of Provenance. Ed. Tom Nesmith. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1993. 297-324. Stewart, Kate. “James Madison as an Archivist.” American Archivist 21 (July 1958): 243-257. Online: http://americanarchivist.org/ doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.21.3.l55672532726p783 Teute, Frederika J. “Views in Review: A Historiographical Perspective on Historical Editing.” American Archivist 43 (Winter 1980): 43‑56. Online: http://americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.43.1.j2705167357u5h h2 Van Tassel, David B. Recording America’s Past: An Interpretation of the Development of Historical Societies in America, 1607‑1884. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. Winkler, E.W. “Destruction of Historical Archives in Texas.” Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 15, no. 2 (October 1911): 148‑ 155. Online: http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531 /metapth101056/m1/153/ Wood, Richard G. “Richard Bartlett, Minor Archival Prophet.” American Archivist 17 (January 1954): 13‑18. Online: http:// americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.17.1.g176713634180851 Wosh, Peter J. “Keeping the Faith? Bishops, Historians, and Catholic Diocesan Archivists, 1790‑1980.” Midwestern Archivist 9, no. 1 (1984): 15‑26. Online: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/45404 5 | Bibliography of American Archival History Wosh, Peter J. “Bibles, Benevolence, and Bureaucracy: The Changing Nature of Nineteenth Century Religious Records.” American Archivist 52 (Spring 1989): 166-178. Online: http://americanarchivist.org /doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.52.2.403v3142u38177v0 Yale, Elizabeth. “With Slips and Scraps: How Early Modern Naturalists Invented the Archives.” Book History 12 (2009): 1-36. Available online at cost. Zhang, Jane. “Recordkeeping in Book Form: The Legacy of American Colonial Recordkeeping.” Information and Culture: A Journal of History 49, no. 4 (2014). Available online at cost. American Archival Developments after 1898 Adkins, Elizabeth W. “The Development of Business Archives in the United States: An Overview and a Personal Perspective.” American Archivist 60 (Winter 1997): 8-33. Online: http://americanarchivist.org /doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.60.1.qk640m762t10g348 Aiken, Jane. “Histories of the Library of Congress.” Libraries and the Cultural Record 45 (2010): 5-24. Available online at cost. Ashdown, Ellen. “Florida’s Black Archives: A Substantial Past.” Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 11, no. 3 (1979): 48-49. Available online at cost. Assmann, Aleida. Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Bahmer, Robert H. “The Archival Function in the States.” American Archivist 22 (April 1959): 203‑209. Online: http://americanarchivist.org /doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.22.2.w164009223470642 Barker, Carol M., and Matthew H. Fox. Classified Files: The Yellowing Pages, A Report on Scholars’ Access to Government Documents. New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1972. Barnard, Megan, ed. Collecting the Imagination: