ARCHIVES, RECORDS, AND PRESERVATION IN THE MODERN WORLD
SELECTED READING LIST
FALL, 2010
Call numbers indicate materials at PCL, unless otherwise noted.
An asterisk (*) indicates an item, exclusive of assigned readings, useful as an initial reading in a section. ER indicates an electronic resource available through UT Libraries.
ABBREVIATIONS AND CALL NUMBERS OF JOURNAL TITLES
AA (American Archivist) CD/3020/A45, ER
AI (Archival Issues)CD/3054/M53, ER
Ar (Archivaria) CD/3620/A73
AM (Archives and Manuscripts) CD/4/A75
AS (Archival Science)-CD/973/D3/A72, ER
Archivum 025.171/AR27
College and Research Libraries Z/671/C6/LIS, ER
Drexel Library Quarterly Z/671/D7/LIS
GA (Georgia Archive) CD/3180/G42
Government Publications Review Z/1223.7/Z7/G6, ER
IA (Indian Archives) 025.171/IN2
Illinois Libraries Z/732/12/I3, ER
Journal of Library History Z/671/J67, ER
Journal of Southern History 975.05/J826, ER
Journal of the Society of Archivists CD/23/S6/A3, ER
L&CR (Libraries & the Cultural Record)-Z 671/J67, ER
LT (Library Trends) Z/671/L6173/LIS, ER
MA (Midwestern Archivist) CD/3054/M53
Prologue E/171/7345, ER
ProvenanceCD/921/P768
RMQ (ARMA Records Management Quarterly)HF/5736/R3632
Records Management Quarterly (ARMA)-HF/5736/R3632, ER
CONTENTS
Bibliographies...... 2
The Nature and Conduct of History...... 3
The State of Archival History...... 3
General...... 4
Archives and Archival Enterprise in the World (Primarily in Europe)
General...... 4
To 1788...... 5
1789-1900...... 6
Archives and Archival Enterprise in America
General...... 7
1600s-1876...... 8
1876-Present...... 9
Corporate Archives...... 10
Collecting Archives...... 11
Government Archives in the United States...... 12
Public Archives Commission...... 12
National Archives...... 12
State and Municipal...... 14
Archival Enterprise in Texas...... 16
Archival Methodology: Appraisal, Arrangement and Description...18
Archives and Archival Enterprise Around the World in the 20th Century
General, Africa, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy,
Latin America, Mexico,New Zealand, Philippines, Russia Spain, Yugoslavia.19
The American Archival Profession...... 24
Media...... 25
Memory...... 27
Preservation...... 27
Record Keeping Systems: Nature and Subversion
Record Keeping Systems and Documentation...... 28
Diplomatics...... 28
Bogus Documents...... 29
Theft and Trading in Documents...... 29
Archives and Records In Peril...... 31
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Evans, Frank B., comp., The History of Archives Administration: A Select Bibliography (1979) CD/995/E926
Cox, Richard J., “On the Value of Archival History in the United States,” in Richard J. Cox, American Archival Analysis: The Recent Development of the Archival Profession in the United States (1990), 182-200 CD/3021/C68/1990
Kitching, Christopher, “The History of Record Keeping in the United Kingdom to 1939: a select bibliography” Journal of the Society of Archivists, 9 #2 (April 1988), 88-100
O’Toole, James, “The Future of Archival History,” Provenance, XIII (1995), 1-24
Steilow, Frederick J., and James Gregory Bradsher, “Archival Enterprise,” in Donald G. Davis, Jr. and John Mark Tucker, American Library History: A Comprehensive Guide to the Literature (1989) Z/731/D38/1989 LIS
Trask, David F. and Robert W. Pomeroy III, eds., The Craft of Public History: An Annotated Selected Bibliography (1983) D/13.5/46/C73/1983 BTC
THE NATURE AND CONDUCT OF HISTORY
Barzun, Jacques, and Henry F. Graff, The Modern Researcher (4th ed., 1985) (This is the classic work on what historical scholarship is and how to conduct it.) D/13/B334
Brothman, Brien, “Some Themes in American Historical Writing during the 1990s,” AA, 64 (Sp/Su 2001), 159-188
Cantor, Norman F., and Richard I. Schneider, How to Study History (1967), chs. 2, 3, 9, 13 907/C168H
Davidson, James West, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (1986)
E/175/D38/1986
Gottschalk, Louis, Understanding History: A Primer of Historical Method (2d. ed., 1969) D/13/G75/1969 LIS (This is a fine piece of work.)
Handlin, Oscar, et al., Harvard Guide to American History (1967) prefatory matter: “History and Other Fields of Knowledge,” “The Historian and the Public,” “Historical Societies,” “Theories of Historical Interpretation,” “Principles of Historical Criticism,” “History as a Literary Art”
Higham, John, “The Construction of American History,” in John Higham, ed., The Reconstruction of American History (1962) (In tracing the changing emphases of history, this piece illuminates the changing attitudes toward the sources of history.) 973.072/H537R
“The Historian and the Historical Document” in Louis R. Gottschalk, The Use of Personal Documents in history, anthropology and sociology (1945) G/907.2/G716U (BLAC)
Kammen, Carol, On Doing Local History: Reflections on What Local Historians Do, Why and What It Means (1987) E/180/K28/1986
McCoy, F. N., Researching and Writing in History (1974), chs. 8,9 D/16/M13
Marwick, Arthur, The Nature of History (3d. ed., 1989) D/13/M32/1989B
“Scientific History,” in R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History (1946) 907/C691I/1946R
THE STATE OF ARCHIVAL HISTORY
Cox, Richard J., “American Archival History: Its Development, Needs, and Opportunities,” AA, 46 (Winter 1983), 3141
_____, “On the Value of Archival History in the United States,” in Richard J. Cox, American Archival Analysis: The Recent Development of the Archival Profession in the United States (1990), 182-200
Craig, Barbara L., “Outward Visions, Inward Glance: Archives History and Professional Identity,” AI, 17 (1992), 113-124
O’Toole, James, “The Future of Archival History,” Provenance, XIII (1995), 1-24
GENERAL
Delsalle, Paul, Une Histoire de L’Archivistique (1998)
First International Conference on the History of Records (Special issue), Ar, 60 (Fall 2005)
Holmes, Oliver W., “History and Theory of Archival Practice,” in Roland Stevens, ed., University Archives (1965), 121 025.171/AL54U
Martin, Henri-Jean (Lydia G. Cochrane, trans.), The History and Power of Writing (1994) Z/40/M3713/1994
Munden, Kenneth, ed., Archives and the Public Interest: Selected Essays by Ernst Posner (1967) 350.714/P843A
ARCHIVES AND ARCHIVAL ENTERPRISE IN EUROPE
GENERAL
Ambrosini, Maria Luisa, The Secret Archives of the Vatican (1969) CD/1581/A75/LAW
*Brichford, Maynard, “The Provenance of Provenance in Germanic Areas,” Provenance, VII, No. 2 (Fall 1989), 54-70
Cortada, James W., “Libraries and Archives of Madrid,” Journal of Library History, 9 (Ap 1974), 176188
*Davies, J. Conway, ed., Studies Presented to Sir Hilary Jenkinson (1957) 942.02/D287S
*Duchein, Michel, “The History of European Archives and the Development of the European Archival Profession,” AA, 55 (Win 1992), 14-24
Galbraith, Vivian H., Studies in the Public Records (1949), 5688 942/G1315
_____, An Introduction to the Use of the Public Records (1952), CD/1043/G3
Hollaender, Albert E.J., Essays in Memory of Sir Hilary Jenkinson (1962) 025.171/So131e
Kekumano, Charles A., The Secret Archives of the Diocesan Curia: A Historical Synopsis and a Commentary (1959) K2697/LAW
Opll, Ferdinand, “The memory of a city: the Vienna municipal archives from the thirteenth to the twentieth century,” in M.V. Roberts, Archives and the Metropolis (1998), 23-34
Ottervik, et al., Libraries and Archives in Sweden (1954) 027.0485/O18
Palmer, Olga P., “The History of European Archival Literature,” AA, 2 (Ap 1939), 69-84
Pugh, R.B., “The Early History of the Admiralty Record Office,” in J. Conway Davies, ed., Studies Presented to Sir Hilary Jenkinson (1957) 942.02/D287S
Rice, Howard C., Jr., “The Paris Depository for Notarial Archives,” AA, 14 (Ap 1951), 99104
Sandberg, Arnold, “The Archives of the Church and the Religious Movements in Sweden,” Archivum, 4 (1954), 123134
*Schellenberg, T.R., Modern Archives: Principles and Techniques (1956) 025.171/SCH26M
Sweeney, Shelley, “The Ambiguous Origins of the Archival Principle of ‘Provenance’,” L&CR, 423 (2008), 193-213
*Tate, William E., The Parish Chest: A Study of the Records of Parochial Administration in England (1969) 942/T187P
Thomas, Daniel H., “A History of the Diplomatic Archives of Belgium,” AA, 15 (Oct 1952), 291302
University of Cambridge Archives, The Archives of the University of Cambridge: An Historical Introduction (1962) 378.4259/C.EC.A
Wagner, Alfred, “The Policy of Access to Archives: From Restriction to Liberalization,” Unesco Bulletin for Libraries, 24 (Mr/Ap, 1970), 736, 117
Walne, Peter, “Parish Registers and the Registration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in England and Wales,” Archivum, 8 (1958), 7987
Welch, Edwin, “Borough Archives in England and Wales,” Archivum, 13 (1963), 6172
Zhang, Wenxian, “The Yellow Register Archives of Imperial Ming China,” L&CR, 43 (2008), 148-175
To 1788
*Duranti, Luciana, “The Odyssey of Records Managers--Part II,” RMQ, 23/4 (Oct 1989), 3-6, 8-11
*Ketelaar, “Muniments and monuments: the dawn of archives as cultural patrimony,” AS, 7 (2007), 343-357
McCrank, Lawrence J., “Documenting Reconquest and Reform: The Growth of Archives in the Medieval Crown of Aragon,” AA, 56 (Spg 1993), 256-318
*Mullett, Charles F., “The ‘Better Reception, Preservation, and More Conveniente Use’ of Public Records in EighteenthCentury England,” AA, 27 (Ap 1964), 195217
*Soll, Jacob, “How to manage an information state: Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s archives and the education of his son,” AS, 7 (2007), 331-342
Wernham, R.B., “The Public Records in the 16th and 17th Centuries,” in Levi Fox, ed., English Historical Scholarship in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1956), 1130 942.0007/D878
Yale, Elizabeth, “With Slips and Scraps: How Early Modern Naturalists Invented the Archives,” Book History, 12 (2009), 1-36
*Yax, Maggie, “Arthur Agarde, Elizabethan Archivist: His Contributions to the Evolution of Archival Practice,” AA, 61 (Spg 98), 56-70
1789-1900
Alonso, Vicenta Cortes, “The Archive of the Indies,” Manuscripts, 21 (Win 1969), 210 091.505/Au82
Howard, Donald D., “The ‘Archives de la Guerre’: Its History and Importance in Napoleonic Scholarship,” Journal of Library History, 5 (Ja 1970), 6672
*Ketelaar, Eric, The Archival Image: Collected Essays (Hilversum, Netherlands: Verloren, 1997)
Especially: “Muller, Feith and Fruin,” 43-54, and “Archival Theory and the Dutch Manual,” 55-66
*Kingston, Ralph, “The French Revolution and the Materiality of the Modern Archive," L&CR, 46.1 (2011), in press
*Lokke, Carl L., “Archives and the French Revolution,” AA, 31 (Jan 1968), 2331
_____, “The French Foreign Office Records Under the Third Republic,” AA, 5 (Ap 1942), 7381
Muller, S., J.A. Feith, and R. Fruin (A. H. Leavitt, trans.), Manual for the Arrangement and Description of Archives (1940) 025.171/M916HTL
*Panitch, Judith M., “Liberty, Equality, Posterity?: Some Archival Lessons from the Case of the French Revolution,” AA, 59 (Win 1996), 30-47
*Posner, Ernst, “Some Aspects of Archival Development Since the French Revolution,” AA, 3 (Jul 1940), 159172
*_____, “Manual of Archives Administration: Theory and Practice of Public Archives in France: A Review Article,” AA, 35 (Ja 1972), 5158
*_____, “Max Lehmann and the Genesis of the Principle of Provenance,” in Munden, Selected Essays (see under GENERAL)
*Roper, Michael, “The Development of the Principles of Provenance and Respect for Original Order in the Public Record Office,” in Barbara L. Craig, The Archival Imagination: Essays in Honour of Hugh A. Taylor (1992), 105-133
Tussing, Nicholas J., “The Politics of Leo XIII’s Opening of the Vatican Archives: The Ownership of the Past,” AA, 70 (Fall/Winter 2007), 364-386
ARCHIVES AND ARCHIVAL ENTERPRISE IN AMERICA
GENERAL
*Berner, Richard C., Archival Theory and Practice in the United States: A Historical Analysis (1983) CD/3021/B47
Beredo, Cheryl, “Archival Allegory? Cultural studies and T.R. Schellenberg’s Modern Archives: Principles and Techniques,” Provenance, XXVI (2008), 24-37
*Bradsher, James Gregory, and Michele F. Pacifico, “History of Archives Administration,” in Bradsher, ed., Managing Archives and Archival Institutions (1988) CD/950/M36/1989
Browne, Henry J., “The American Catholic Archival Tradition,” AA, 14 (Apl 1951), 127139
*Burnette, D. Lawrence, Beneath the Footnote: A Guide to the Use and Preservation of American Historical Sources (1969) CD/3021/B93
Butterfield, Lyman H., “Archival and Editorial Enterprise in 1850 and in 1950: Some Comparisons and Contrasts,” American Philosophical Society Proceedings, 98 (Jun 15, 1954), 159170 A/11P5/v. 98
Cook, Terry, “Easy to Byte, Harder to Chew: The Second Generation of Electronic Records Archives,” Ar, 33 (Winter 1992), 202-216
*_____, “What is Past is Prologue: A History of Archival Ideas Since 1898, and the Future Paradigm Shift,” Ar, 43 (Spg 97), 17-63
*Deutrich, Mabel E., “Decimal Filing: Its General Background and an Account of Its Rise and Fall in the U.S. War Department,” AA, 28 (Ap 1965), 199-218
[Ellis, Roger, and Peter Walne, eds.], Selected Writings of Sir Hilary Jenkinson (1990) CD/935/J46
Evans, Frank B., “Archivists and Records Managers: Variations on a Theme,” AA, 30 (Ja 1967), 4558
Gilliland-Swetland, Luke J., “The Provenance of a Profession: The Permanence of the Public Archives and Historical Manuscripts Traditions in American Archival History,” AA (Spg 1991), 160-175
Gondos, Victor, “The Era of the Woodruff File,” AA, 19 (Oct 1956), 303-320
Hesseltine, William B., and Donald R. McNeil, eds., In Support of Clio: Essays in Memory of Herbert A. Kellar (1958) 907.2/H465I
Larsen, John C., ed., Researcher’s Guide to Archives and Regional History Sources (1988) CD/3021/R47/1988
Lord, Clifford L., ed., Keepers of the Past (1965) 973.06/L884K
Peace, Nancy E. Archival Choices: Managing the Historical Record in an Age of Abundance (1984) CD/3021/A79/1984 Ch 1
Schellenberg, T.R., The Management of Archives(1965) CD/950/S29 Chs 2, 3, 4
_____, Modern Archives: Principles and Techniques (1956) CD/950/S3 Chs 1, 2
Stephenson, Mary Sue, “The American Archivist, 1971-1990: A Demographic Analysis of the Articles,” AA, 55 (Fall 1992), 538-561
Torrez, Robert, “Documents Survive Tumultuous Times,” New Mexico Magazine, 70, No. 1 (January, 1992), 50-55
Wosh, Peter J., “Keeping the Faith? Bishops, Historians, and Catholic Diocesan Archivists, 17901980,” MA, IX, #1 (1984), 1526
_____, “Bibles, Benevolence, and Bureaucracy: The Changing Nature of Nineteenth Century Religious Records,” AA, 52 (Spg 1989), 166-178
1600s-1876
Adams, Herbert Baxter, The Life and Writings of Jared Sparks: Comprising Selections from His Journals and Correspondence (2 vols., 1893) 973.5 P262BA
Benavides, Adan, Loss by Division: the Commandancy General Archive of the Eastern Interior Provinces [1813-1836] (1988) F/1227/B4628/1988 BLAC
Coulter, E. Merton, Joseph Vallence Bevan: Georgia’s First Official Historian (1964)(ch. 5)975.8/B467Bc
Dunlap, Leslie W., American Historical Societies, 17901860 (1944) 973.06/D921a/1944
Hamilton, J.G. de R., “Three Centuries of Southern Records, 16071907,” Journal of Southern History, 10 (Feb 1944), 336
*Harper, Josephine L., “Lyman C. Draper and Early American Archives,” AA, 15 (Jl 1952), 205212
*Jones, H.G., ed., Historical Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Origins of State Historical Societies, Museums, and Collections, 1791-1861 (1995) E/172/H57/1995
Martin, Thomas P., “Early American Interest in Historical Sources and Archives,” ALA Public Documents, 1937, pp. 228232 025.1734/AM3P
*O’Toole, James M., “Democracy—and Documents—in America,” AA, 65 (Sp/Su, 2002), 107-115
Riley, Stephen T., The Massachusetts Historical Society, 17911959 (1959) 974.406/M382Ym
Smith, J.D., “Alfred Holt Stone: Mississippi Planter and Archivist/Historian of Slavery,” Journal of Mississippi History, 45 (1983), 262273 976.206/M6913/BHC
Teute, Frederika J., “A Historiographical Perspective on Historical Editing,” AA, 43 (Wi 1980), 4356
Van Tassel, David B., Recording America’s Past: An Interpretation of the Development of Historical Societies in America, 16071884 (1960) 973.07/V368R
Wood, Richard G., “Richard Bartlett, Minor Archival Prophet,” AA, 17 (Jan 1954), 1318
1876-PRESENT
*Baumann, Roland M., “Oberlin College and the Movement to Establish An Archives, 1920-1966,” Midwestern Archivist, XIII (1988), 27-38
Brown, Matthew G., “The First Nixon Papers Controversy: Richard Nixon’s 1969 Prepresidential Papers Tax Deduction,” AI, 26 (2001), 9-26
Burke, Frank G., “The Beginnings of the NHPRC Records Program,” AA, 63 (Sum 2000), 18-42
Cook, J. Frank., “‘Private Papers’ of Public Officials,” AA, 38 (Jul 1975), 299-324
Darby, Matthew S., “Extending Archives: Folklife, Social History, and the Work of R. Henderson Shuffler,” Provenance, XVII (1999), 5-22
Evans, Frank B. “Presidential Address - American Archives, 1959-89: A Personal Perspective” AA 53 (Winter 1990) 12-21
Giunta, Mary A., “The NHPRC: Its Influence on Documentary Editing, 19641984,” AA, 49 (Sp 1986), 134141
Hackman, Larry, “A Perspective on American Archives,” Public Historian, 8, No. 3 (Sum 1986), 1028
Purcell, Aaron D., “Abstractions of Justice: The Library of Congress’s Great Manuscripts Robbery, 1896-1897,” AA, 62 (Fa 1999), 325-345
*Reynolds, Robert D., Jr., “The Incunabula of Archival Theory and Practice in the United States: J.C. Fitzpatrick’s Notes on the Care, Cataloguing, Calendaring and Arranging of Manuscripts and the Public Archives Commission’s Uncompleted “Primer of Archival Economy,” AA, 54 (Fall 1991), 466-482
Rundell, Walter, In Pursuit of American History: Research and Training in the United States (1970) 973.07/R871I
*Smith, John David, “The Historian as Archival Advocate: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and the Records of Georgia and the South,” AA, 52 (Sum 1989), 320-331
Speer, Lisa K., “Mississippi’s ‘Spy Files’: The State Sovereignty Commission Records Controversy, 1977-1999,” Provenance, XVII (1999), 101-117
*Voss-Hubbard, Anke, “‘No Documents—No History’: Mary Ritter Beard and the Early History of Women’s Archives,” AA, 58 (Win 1995), 16-30
CORPORATE ARCHIVES
*Adkins, Elizabeth W., “The Development of Business Archives in the United States: An Overview and a Personal Perspective,” AA, 60 (Win 1997), 8-33
*Fishbein, Meyer H., “Business Archives,” in Allen Kent and Harold Lancour, eds., Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (1968), vol. 3, pps. 517526 Z/1006/E57 LIS Ref
Shkolnik, Leon “The Role of the Archive in the Corporate Structure” RMQ v.24 #4 (Oc 1990) 18-20, 22-23, 57, 58
Smith, David R., “An Historical Look at Business Archives,” AA, 45 (Sum 1982), 273278
Yates, Jo Anne, “Internal Communication Systems in American Business Structures: A Framework to Aid Appraisal,” AA, 48 (Sp 1985), 141158
COLLECTING ARCHIVES
Ashdown, E., “Florida’s Black Archives: A Substantial Past,” Change, 11 (1979), 48-49 LB/2300/C4
Burke, Frank G., “Manuscripts and Archives,” Library Trends, 15 (Jan 1967), 430445 (a history of NUCMC)
Butterfield, Lyman C., “Bostonians and Their Neighbors as Pack Rats,” AA, 24 (Apl 1961), 14159
Clark, Thomas D., “Preservation of Southern Historical Documents,” AA, 16 (Ja 1953), 2737
Cook, D. Louise, “A Home for a Dream, the Freedom Hall Complex,” GA, 9, #2 (Fa 1981), 4251
Deutrich, Mabel E., “American Church ArchivesAn Overview,” AA, 24 (Oct 1961), 387402
Foster, Clifton Dale, “Microfilming Activities of the Historical Records Survey, 19351942,” AA, 48 (Win 1985), 4555
Fox, Edith M., “The Genesis of Cornell University’s Collection of Regional History,” AA, 14 (Ap 1951), 10516
Geselbracht, Raymond, “The Origins of Restrictions on Access to Personal Papers at the Library of Congress and the National Archives,” AA, 49 (Spg 1986), 142162
Goggin, Jacqueline, “Carter G. Woodson and the Collection of Source Materials for AfroAmerican History,” AA, 48 (Sum 1985), 261271
Gracy, David B. II, “Archives of Labor in the United States: History and Reminiscence” Ar, 4 (1977) (Southern Labor Archives)
Hamer, Philip M., “The Records of Southern History,” Journal of Southern History, 5 (Feb 1939), 317
Hart, Katherine, “Administering the Local History Collection,” Texas Libraries, 29 (Fall 1967), 187-202 Z/671/T46
*Henry, Linda, “Promoting Historical Consciousness: The Early Archives Committee of the National Council of Negro Women,” Signs, 7 (Aut 1981), 251259
McAllister, D. Theodore, “Collecting Archives for the History of Science,” AA, 32 (Oct 1969), 327332
_____, “A Manuscripts Collection Venture in the Middle West: Indiana, 195053,” AA, 17 (Oct 54), 30512
Morison, William J., “Creating a Local Records and Community Archival Center: The Case of the University of Louisville,” Public Historian, 1, #4 (Sum 1979), 2328
Noggle, Burl, Working with History: The Historical Records Survey in Louisiana and the Nation, 19361942 ([1981]) F369/N63
Powell, Charles H., “Racial Historical Societies and the American Heritage,” Journal of Negro History, 37 (Ja 1952), 1135
“Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission,” AHA Annual Report, 1896, 1:46780 973.06/AM35A
*Smiley, David L., “The W.P.A. Historical Records Survey,” in Hesseltine and McNeil, In Support of Clio, 328 (see under GENERAL)
Stover, C., “Museum Archives: Growth and Development,” Drexel Library Quarterly, 19, #3 (1983), 6677
*Straus, Annabel, “College and University Archives: Three Decades of Development,” College and Research Libraries, 40 (Sep 1979), 432439
Wallace, Carolyn A., “The Southern Historical Collection,” AA, 28 (Ju 1965), 427436
Warner, Robert M., “The Role of the Secular Institution in Collecting Church Records,” AA, 28 (Ap 1965), 24754
GOVERNMENT ARCHIVES IN THE UNITED STATES
*Bastian, Jeannette Allis, “A Question of Custody: The Colonial Archives of the United States Virgin Islands,” AA, 64 (Sp/Su 2001), 96-114
Nelson, Josephus, “Properly Arranged and Properly Recorded: The Library of Congress Archives,” L&CR, 45 (2010), 25-36
PUBLIC ARCHIVES COMMISSION
*Paltsits, Victor H., “An Historical Resume of the Public Archives Commission, from 1899 to 1921,” American Historical Association Annual Report, 1922, v.1, p. 152163 973.06/AM35A
NATIONAL ARCHIVES
*Bradsher, James Gregory, “An Administrative History of the Disposal of Federal Records, 17891949,” Provenance, 3, #2 (Fa 1985), 121
*_____, “A Brief History of the Growth of Federal Government Records, Archives and Information, 17891985,” Government Publications Review, 13 (1986), 491505
*Brooks, Philip C., “Archives in the United States During World War II, 19391946,” Library Quarterly, 17 (Oct 1947), 263280 Z671/C713
Cappon, Lester J., “The National Archives and the Historical Profession,” Journal of Southern History, 35 (Nov 1969), 477499
*Evans, Frank B., “Modern Methods of Arrangement of Archives in the United States,” AA, 29 (Ap 1966), 241263 (history of attempts to develop a scientific system for handling archives)
Geselbracht, Raymond, “The Four Eras in the History of Presidential Papers,” Prologue, 15 (Spg 1983), 3742 E 171/P7345
*Gondos, Victor, J. Franklin Jameson and the Birth of the National Archives (1981) CD/3023/G66/1981
**Jones, H.G., The Records of a Nation (1969)026.973/J717R
*Krauskopf, Robert W., “The Hoover Commissions and Federal Record Keeping,” AA, 21 (Oct 1958), 371399
Lovely, Louise, “The Evolution of Presidential Libraries,” Government Publications Review, 6 (1979), 2735
*McCoy, Donald, The National Archives (1979) CD/3023/M25
Penn, Ira A., “Federal Records Management in the 1980sIs Just Like It Was in the 1780s,” RMQ, 18, No. 3 (Jun 1984), 515
Peterson, Trudy Huskamp, “The National Archives and the Archival Theorist Revisited,” AA, 49 (Sp 1986), 125133
Schellenberg, T.R., Modern Archives: Principles and Techniques (1956) CD/950/S3
Viola, Herman, The National Archives of the United States (1984) CD/3023/U56
*Walch, Timothy, ed., Guardian of Heritage: Essays on the History of the National Archives (1986) CD/3023/G83
*Warner, Robert M., Diary of a dream : a history of the National Archives independence movement, 1980-1985(1995) CD 3024 W37 1995