#PrimarySources
While not a study of Girard's #materialculture (as was "Portrait of a Citizen"), the book relied on archival holdings at Girard College for its insights. This mountain of material is an historian's treasure trove!

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October 27, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Prompting the Archive: Evaluating #GenAI for Primary Source Discovery in Reference Services (New Journal Article; via Reference Services Review)

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#scholcomm #libraries #primarysources #AI
October 21, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Join Annette Bochenek of Purdue University and Chris Cotton from Clarivate for a free webinar exploring how primary sources can bring new perspectives to business research and teaching.

📅 November 11 | ⏰ 5:00 PM CET

Register: https://ow.ly/y9UI50ZZhZs

#InformationLiteracy #PrimarySources
October 21, 2026 at 12:40 PM
🌍 Today is Global Handwashing Day--a crucial component of public health. Explore the post-WWII emergence of the World Health Organization on the Readex Blog: https://ow.ly/e3Wu50ZXHmt

#GlobalHandwashingDay #HealthHist #HealthHistory #Histmed #PrimarySources
Politics and Prophylaxis: The World Health Organization, the Politics of International Public Health, and Open Source Epidemiology | Readex
“Science is international. Medical research, like the diseases it combats, knows no geographic boundaries.” The chart highlights general contributions of various countries to medical research as of April 1959. From U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 In June 1958, about eight months after the S…
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October 15, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Bring your students to the Lewis Walpole Library, and we'll help them learn about book history, printmaking, connoisseurship, collecting, material culture, and more. What can we do for your class?
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October 11, 2026 at 10:36 PM
LGBTQ+ partnerships remained hidden or were referred to in coded terms in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but in the pages of newspapers we find stories of loving relationships preserved in obituaries and poetry: https://ow.ly/QIkH50ZVBNb

#NationalComingOutDay #LGBTQHistory #PrimarySources
October 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM
How we grade a claim: start with primary records, check specific dates against independent evidence, state where historians disagree, and record what we have not examined. For this audit, we worked from published transcriptions of the indictments, not the manuscript. #PrimarySources
October 9, 2026 at 9:02 AM
The Earth Will Shake: The Uncanny Prophecy of John Hendrix and the Building of the Atomic City ☢️ https://ow.ly/nkSl50ZVqxf

#AtomicAge #ManhattanProject #NuclearHistory #PrimarySources #envhist
October 7, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Second dated charge: Sir William Brereton, Hampton Court, 8 December 1533. The royal household is recorded at Greenwich that day. The indictment also covered "divers other days", so its dates never had to hold up. #AnneBoleyn #PrimarySources
October 7, 2026 at 11:02 AM
"Man, this is baseball, you gotta stop thinking! Just have fun. If you were having fun, you would have caught that ball!"
-Benny Rodriguez, The Sandlot

#CoachesDay #TeamSpirit #PrimarySources #Ephemera #SportsHistory #BaseballHistory
October 6, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Calling all university students!

Are you looking for some #DissertationInspiration?

Join us for a drop in session to view original primary sources, perfect to spark ideas for your historical research.

Free and open to all.

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September 30, 2026 at 11:00 AM
How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America
Thomas Doherty
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Thomas Doherty, "How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America" (Columbia UP, 2026) - New Books Network
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September 29, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Montana educators are diving into the heart of conservation with an interactive workshop that blends local wilderness stories with innovative teaching strategies!

Click to read more!

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Montana Conservation Elders, Library of Congress host teacher workshop at Smoke's Farm
Montana Conservation Elders, with support from the Library of Congress, convened a two‑day workshop at Smoke's Farm for teachers and conservation practitioners to develop place‑based curriculum, share primary sources and plan classroom activities.
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September 29, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Records list Richard Brenner as a German explorer, but that label only tells part of the story. His work appears in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, and Brockhaus-Efron. #GermanHistory #Encyclopedias #PrimarySources #HistoricalRecords
September 26, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Origins of the Nuclear Age! 'The Manhattan Project: Building the Atomic Bomb, 1942-1946' provides 30,000+ pages of declassified records documenting the science, strategy, and decisions that changed history.
tinyurl.com/rbxcttts #NuclearHistory #ColdWarStudies #PrimarySources #HistoryResearch #Readex
September 24, 2026 at 3:12 PM
🍂✨ Happy First Day of Fall!

#FallVibes #AutumnMagic #PrimarySources #Ephemera
September 22, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Liberty or land grab? In 1813, John H. Robinson called for support of the Mexican revolution—was he fighting for freedom or fertile territory?

Read his letter & decide: https://ow.ly/6iSM50ZO4TK

#PrimarySources #19thCentury
September 16, 2026 at 12:01 PM
"It was received with universal shouts of joy": The Declaration of Independence is read aloud across the new United States of America: https://ow.ly/SKSM50ZIkGg

#Democracy #PrimarySources #Revolution250 #America250
September 15, 2026 at 2:00 PM
The name "Social Evil Hospital" likely conjures images of a sinister building with dormer windows filled with darkened silhouettes and occupied by the vilest criminals imaginable. You wouldn't be totally wrong — it did in fact have dormer windows.

📚 https://ow.ly/A1jN50ZKHMv

#PrimarySources
Licensed to Sin: Women's Public Health and the St. Louis Social Evil Hospital | Readex
Built in 1872, in St. Louis, Missouri, the facility originally served as a clinic where female sex workers received testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.
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September 9, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Dive into State Fair history & so much more when you visit library.ks.gov/KGI, KS government info spanning the State and generations of Kansans. Meet us at the State Fair in the Pride of KS Building! @travelks.bsky.social #ksleg #PrimarySources 2/2
September 8, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Need primary sources on Medieval Europe? This directory provides access to museum collections and academic databases covering feudalism to medieval crime and punishment.

www.historyskills.com/finding-sour...

#MedievalHistory #PrimarySources #MiddleAges #HistoryTeacher #HistoryEducation
September 5, 2026 at 10:25 PM
📜 From the Archives

Deciphering 17th-century manuscripts, reading original records, and unearthing primary sources...

For a historian, this is where the real thrill of discovery happens.

#HistorianOnTheRock #ArchiveLife #PrimarySources #Manuscripts #History
September 4, 2026 at 2:42 AM