University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences

 

LIS 2223                                 Archival Access and Advocacy, Spring Term 2004

 

Instructor:                                 Richard J. Cox

 

Office and Telephone:               SIS 648; 412-624-3245

 

Office Hours:                            Mondays 1:30-4:30 and by appointment

 

E-mail:                                      rcox@mail.sis.pitt.edu

 

 

Course Rationale

 

The successful application of the archival functions of reference or access and advocacy is essential to the use of archival records and historical manuscripts and the adequate management (and health) of the programs caring for them. 

 

Archival reference or access to archives and historical records is a fundamental and necessary function of the professional archivist and the archival repository.  This archival function possesses significant differences from related functions in other information professions because of the nature of the records being serviced. 

 

Archival advocacy, often called public programming or outreach, which archivists have adopted to build public support for their programs, is a closely related function. Advocacy is particularly important to archivists, manuscripts curators and other records professionals because of the many competing information sources and because of technological and other changes to the manner in which archives and historical records are made accessible. 

 

Archival access and advocacy are the archival functions bridging the professional work of archivists and other records professionals to a variety of publics interested in the welfare of the documentary heritage.  Archival access and advocacy depends on the quality of appraisal and descriptive work while also enhancing both the meaning and understanding of archives as a public good.  These functions also highlight the value of records for evidence, information, societal and organizational memory, and accountability.

 

Course Goals

 

The purposes of this course are to introduce students to the theoretical foundations, principles, and practices of archival access and advocacy so that they are proficient in carrying out these crucial functions.

 

Students will learn about

 

·                    how archival records series and manuscript collections are handled in the reference room setting

 

·                    the increasing use of online systems and the Internet/World Wide Web to provide both access to and advocacy on behalf of archives and historical manuscripts programs

 

·                    the factors supporting the importance of understanding actual and potential use of archival records

 

·                    how use relates to archival advocacy

 

·                    issues such as media coverage of archives and historical manuscripts, tensions between privacy and access, and intellectual property and copyright

 

·                    other critical matters affecting the use of archives and historical records.

 

Course Outline

 

This course will consist of two sections:

 

·        a detailed review of the basic principles and methodologies of archival reference and access      

 

·        a consideration of archival public programming, outreach, and advocacy, with a focus on particular case studies regarding the importance of records and archives.

 

Course Requirements and Grading: Masters Students. 

 

There are a number of requirements for the course.  Students will be expected to be able to discuss the reading assignments and to participate in class discussions.  The class will generally be run like a seminar, with discussions focusing on the assigned readings; the instructor will provide formal introductory lectures on key aspects of archival arrangement, description, and reference throughout the course.  Each student will be expected to complete one major assignment. Failure to complete this assignment will result in a failing grade in the course.

 

The major assignment can be an analysis of use of records in a particular archives or records repository, a review of a case study reflecting the value of records and archives in society, or a critical evaluation of the use by archives of Web homepages for providing access to their records (an examination of at least five to ten archives homepages on the World Wide Web).  This assignment is due by session fourteen (April 13, 2004) of the course.

 

The analysis of the archives homepages includes the writing of a critical evaluation of how the repositories are treating finding aids, the tools being offered for determining holdings, how the value of records are being described, and any other aspects the student believes are relevant to the topic of archival access and advocacy. Students deciding to do this assignment should use http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html , which is a master web site for archives home pages.  Students should use the home pages to contact the archivist or archivists involved in its design in order to write the evaluation.  And, the students should consider the effectiveness, potential or real, of making traditional finding aids available over the Internet.  This paper should be at least 20 pages.

 

In this assignment, students could focus on one repository homepage, compare three to five homepages of similar repository type (such as state government archives or regional historical societies), or compare and contrast three to five homepages of different types of repositories (such as contrasting municipal government to state government repositories or evaluating the differences and similarities of private local historical societies to publicly funded government records programs).  For useful background essays, students should read William Landis, “Archival Outreach on the World Wide Web,” Archival Issues 20, no. 2 (1995): 129-147, Jenni Davidson and Donna McRostie, “Webbed Feet: Navigating the Net,” Archives and Manuscripts 24 (November 1996), and David Wallace, “Archival Repositories on the World Wide Web: A Preliminary Survey and Analysis,” Archives and Museum Informatics 9, no. 2 (1995): 150-168.  It is expected that students will carry out this evaluation by examining scholarly and other critical evaluation of the Web, the topical areas or programmatic types represented by the archival repositories, and other relevant literature necessary for producing a thoughtful and comprehensive analysis.


 

The review of the case study must focus on one particular incident, event, movement, or controversy that stresses the importance of records and archives in society.  The case study should review the history and details of the particular case, consider how or if archivists and other records professionals were involved in the case, and summarize what the case adds to our understanding of the value of records in society.  Examples of article length analyses of such case studies are David Bearman, "The Implications of Armstrong v. Executive Office of the President for the Archival Management of Electronic Records," American Archivist 56 (Fall 1993): 674-689 and Bruce P. Montgomery, "Nixon's Legal Legacy: White House Papers and the Constitution," American Archivist 56 (Fall 1993): 586-613.  Students should also review the various essays in Richard J. Cox and David A. Wallace, eds., Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and Records in Modern Society (Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 2002).  This syllabus also includes many other examples of case studies, mostly treated in book-length monographs (but their topics will suggest the kinds of case studies students can consider in their own work).

 

The analysis of use of records in a particular archives or records repository must result in a detailed description of use in a particular archives or records repository, based either on three days of observation of reference interactions or an analysis of user records the archives or records repository maintains.  The student is responsible for contacting and working out arrangements for conducting the user analysis.  The student needs to determine a particular methodology for the study, such as David Bearman, "User Presentation Language in Archives," Archives and Museum Informatics 3 (Winter 1989-90): 3-7, and follow this particular methodology, producing a comparison of findings.

 

Students who are expanding on papers completed in LIS 2220, Records and Knowledge Management, should be more specific in their written paper proposal handed in on session four (January 27, 2004).  Students continuing to work on such papers must demonstrate a considerably wider range of reading of the appropriate professional literature and/or a more sophisticated research methodology (as well as demonstrating a connection with the topics being treated in this course).  In order to receive a passing grade the student will have to present a paper that must reflect deeper thinking about the topic and a greater grasp of the nuances of professional debate, theory, methodology, and practice.  It is also expected that these papers will be longer than the 20-25 pages length because of this fuller treatment by the student.  The final version of this paper is also due week fourteen (April 13, 2004) of this course.

 

The final grade for Masters students will be based on the following:

 

Class participation and discussion                                              40%

Project or Research Paper                                                        60%

 

Whatever major writing activity the student is undertaking must be described in a page-long statement handed in on week four (January 28, 2003) of this course.

 

Course Requirements and Grading: Doctoral Students

 

The primary assignment for doctoral students taking this course is a major, publishable paper of 25-35 pages on any aspect of archival access, reference, or advocacy that the student is interested in or that relates to the student's ongoing dissertation research.

 

This paper should show a wide reading of the existing literature and can look at the topic from a theoretical or applied perspective.  Broad examples of topics for this paper are as follows:

 

·        citation analysis and the implications for archival reference services and access

 

·        impact of electronic records and other new information technologies on archival reference and access

 

·        implications of media coverage of archives and records matters (such as Holocaust survivors’ assets, tobacco industry litigation, or the Enola Gay exhibition controversy) for archival access and advocacy

 

·        implications of issues like intellectual property, privacy, and government secrecy for archival access and advocacy

 

 

Students should hand in a one page description of what they intend to look at and write about in this paper by the fourth class session (January 27, 2004).  The paper is due the last week of the course (April 20, 2004). 

 

Doctoral students working in, or who have worked in, archival repositories are encouraged to select topics for this longer assignment relating to these institutional settings and repositories. Students interested in pursuing this kind of focused assignment should plan to make prior arrangements with the Instructor. 

 

In writing this paper students are required to have mastered the readings in this syllabus, and they should be able to demonstrate that they have examined relevant literature and studies in related fields such as library and information science and historical studies. Doctoral students who go beyond the archival literature in their background reading will do better on these papers, producing something with potential for publication.

 

The final grade for Doctoral students will be based on the following:

 

·        Class participation and discussion (30%)

·        Research paper (70%)

 

 

Course Requirements and Grading: Style Manual

 

Students should adhere to the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style in the preparation of their papers.  Students should acquire, if they do not have a copy already, the latest edition of Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations published by the University of Chicago Press; this is a short hand version of the more comprehensive Chicago Manual of Style. 

 

Any paper submitted not meeting the standards of this style manual will lose one letter grade for the particular assignment.

 

Course Requirements and Grading: Class Participation and Discussion

 

Class participation and discussion, as the final grade weighing reflects, are extremely essential for this course's success and the student's educational experience:

 

·        Each student will be expected to participate fully and regularly in class discussions about the readings, session topics, and other matters related to archival science. 

 

·        Each student will be expected to meet at least once during the course with the Instructor in order to discuss his or her progress and work on the assignments. 

 

·        Students who do not fully participate in class discussions will receive no higher than a "B" for this course. 

 

The Instructor will take into account the possibility of a larger class size affecting class participation when considering the grade for the course.

 

Each student also will be expected to read the daily national edition (seven day coverage) of the New York Times, making note of news and other coverage of stories with implications for archives and records management.  Students will be expected to bring to class relevant articles for discussion and analysis.  A portion of the beginning of each class will be devoted to these discussions.  Students should check into the availability of a subscription to this newspaper, or make arrangements with a local bookstore or newsstand for reserving a daily copy of this newspaper for purchase.

 

Course Requirements and Grading: Incompletes

 

No incomplete grades will be given for this course, unless there are dramatic or emergency circumstances affecting a student's ability to meet course requirements.  If an incomplete is necessary, students will have until May 31st to complete the requirements.

 

Course Requirements: Book Purchases

 

Each week includes a set of required readings.  Students should read the required essays and books and be prepared to discuss them in class and to draw on them for their writing assignments.  The reading list is not intended to be comprehensive, but it is rather intended to introduce students to the classic writings and most important texts on the topic of archival access and advocacy.

 

A number of books are recommended for purchase through the Society of American Archivists, including

 

Mary Jo Pugh, Providing Reference Services for Archives and Manuscripts (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1992) 

 

Elsie Freeman Finch, ed., Advocating Archives: An Introduction to Public Relations for Archivists (Metuchen, New Jersey: Society of American Archivists and the Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1994).

 

Heather MacNeil, Without Consent: The Ethics of Disclosing Personal Information in Public Archives (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1992).

 

Laura B. Cohen, ed.  Reference Services for Archives and Manuscripts (New York: Haworth Press, Inc., 1997).

 

Other volumes should be purchased through any online or other bookstore of the student's choice (some of these volumes also may be available for purchase through the Society of American Archivists); the required volumes include:

 

Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth About History (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1994).

 

Erna Parks, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History (New York: Bloomsbury, 2001).

 

Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (New York: Free Press, 1993).

 

Richard J. Evans, Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial (New York: Basic Books, 2001). 

 

Athan G. Theoharis, ed.,  A Culture of Secrecy: The Government Versus the People’s Right to Know (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998).

 

Edward T. Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt, eds.,  History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past (New York: Metropolitan Books, 1996) or any other book on the Enola Gay exhibition controversy, such as Steven C. Dubin, Displays of Power: Controversy in the American Museum from the Enola Gay to Sensation (New York: New York University Press, 1999); Martin Harwit, An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of Enola Gay (New York: Copernicus, 1996); or Timothy W. Luke, Museum Politics: Power Plays at the Exhibition  (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002).

Edward T. Linenthal, The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)

 

Kenneth E. Foote,  Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997)

 

Barbie Zelizer, Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory  (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).

 

Janna Malamud Smith, Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc., 1997).

 

Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (New York: Random House, 2000).

 

Martha S. Feldman, Order Without Design: Information Production and Policy Making (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989).

 

Richard J. Cox and David A. Wallace, eds., Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and Records in Modern Society (Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 2002).

 

 

All required books and copies of the “required” articles will be on Reserve as well. 

 

Course Schedule

 

INTRODUCTION

 

Session 1 (January 6, 2004) 

 

Introduction to Course and Course Requirements

 

Session 2 (January 13, 2004)           

 

What Are Archival Access, Reference, and Advocacy?

 

History and Definitions; Their Place in Archival Institutions; Their Relationship to Each Other; Issues and Debates.  The Origins, Philosophical and Theoretical Principles of Archival Advocacy and Public Programs and of Archival Access and Reference

 

Required Readings

 

Sue E. Holbert, Archives and Manuscripts: Reference & Access (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1977).

 

Lucille Whalen, ed., Reference Services in Archives (New York: Haworth Press, 1986).  Read selectively.

 

Ann E. Pederson and Gail Farr, Archives & Manuscripts: Public Programs (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1982).

 

Philip C. Brooks, Research in Archives: The Use of Unpublished Primary Sources (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969).  Read selectively.

 

Elsie Freeman Finch, ed., Advocating Archives: An Introduction to Public Relations for Archivists (Metuchen, New Jersey: Society of American Archivists and the Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1994).

 

Trudy H. Peterson, “Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmetic: Speculations on Change in Research Processes,” American Archivist 55 (1992): 414-19.

 

David B. Gracy, “Archivists, You Are What People Think You Keep,” American Archivist 52 (1989): 72-78.

 

SECTION ONE: ARCHIVAL REFERENCE AND ACCESS

 

Session 3 (January 20, 2004)

 

Administering Archival Reference Programs

 

Required Readings

 

Paul Conway, “Facts and Frameworks: An Approach to Studying the Users of Archives,” American Archivist 49 (Fall 1986): 393-407.

 

Mary Jo Pugh, Providing Reference Services for Archives and Manuscripts (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1992).

 

Laura B. Cohen, ed.  Reference Services for Archives and Manuscripts (New York: Haworth Press, Inc., 1997).  Read selectively.

 

Janice E. Ruth, “Educating the Reference Archivist,” American Archivist 51 (Summer 1988): 266-76.

 

Bruce W. Dearstyne, “What Is the Use of Archives? A Challenge for the Profession,” American Archivist 50 (Winter 1987): 76-87.

 

Elsie T. Freeman, “In the Eye of the Beholder: Archives Administration from the User’s Point of View,” American Archivist 47 (Spring 1984): 111-23.

 

Mary Jo Pugh, “The Illusion of Omniscience: Subject Access and the Reference Archivist,” American Archivist 45 (Winter 1982): 33-44.

 

Linda J. Long, “Question Negotiation in the Archival Setting: The Use of Interpersonal Communication Techniques in the Reference Interview,  American Archivist 52 (1989): 40-50.

 

Susan L. Malbin, “The Reference Interview in Archival Literature,” College and Research Libraries (January 1997): 69-80.

 

Avra Michelson, “Description and Reference in the Age of Automation,” American Archivist 50 (Spring 1987): 192-208.

 

 

Session 4 (January 27, 2004)           

 

Testing Archival Access and Reference: Research and Case Studies

 

Required Readings

 

William J. Maher, “The Use of User Studies,” Midwestern Archivist 11, no. 1 (1986): 15-26.

 

Paul Conway, Partners in Research; Improving Access to the Nation’s Archives (Pittsburgh: Archives and Museum Informatics, 1994).  Read selectively.

 

Lawrence Dowler, “The Role of Use in Defining Archival Practice and Principles: A Research Agenda for the Availability and Use of Records,” American Archivist 51 (Winter/Spring 1988): 74-86.

 

Richard H. Lytle, “Intellectual Access to Archives: I. Provenance and Content Indexing Methods of Subject Retrieval,” American Archivist 43 (Winter 1980): 64-75; “Report of an Experiment Comparing Provenance and Content Indexing Methods of Subject Retrieval,” ibid. (Spring 1980): 191-206.

 

David Bearman, “User Presentation Language in Archives,” Archives and Museum Informatics 3 (Winter 1989-90): 3-7.

 

Ann D. Gordon, Using the Nation’s Documentary Heritage (Washington, D.C.: Historical Documents Study, 1992).  Read selectively.

 

Elizabeth Yakel and Laura L. Bost.  “Understanding Administrative Use and Users in University Archives,  American Archivist 57 (1994): 596-615.

 

Wendy Duff and Catherine A. Johnson, “Accidentally Found on Purpose: Information-Seeking Behavior of Historians in Archives,” Library Quarterly 72 (October 2002): 472-496.

 

Other Recommended Readings (Not on Reserve)

 

Dianne L. Beattie, “An Archival User Study: Researchers in the Field of Women’s History,” Archivaria 29 (Winter 1989-90): 33-50.

 

Paul Conway, “Research in Presidential Libraries: A User Survey,” Midwestern Archivist 11, no. 1 (1986): 35-56.

 

Clark A. Elliott, “Citation Patterns and Documentation for the History of Science: Some Methodological Considerations,” American Archivist 44 (Spring 1981): 131-42.

 

Jacqueline Goggin, “The Indirect Approach: A Study of Scholarly Users of Black and Women’s Organizational Records in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division,” Midwestern Archivist 11, no. 1 (1986): 57-67.

 

Fredric M. Miller, “Use, Appraisal, and Research: A Case Study of Social History,” American Archivist 49 (Fall 1986): 371-92.

 

Topic for Longer Assignment Due

 

 

Session 5 (February 3, 2004)

 

Ethics, Access, and the Relationship Between the Researcher and the Reference Archivist

 

Elena S. Danielson. “The Ethics of Access,” American Archivist 52 (Winter 1989): 53-62.

 

Page Putnam Miller, Developing a Premier National Institution: A Report from the User Community to the National Archives ([Washington, D.C.]: National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History, 1989).

 

Mary N. Speakman, “The User Talks Back,” American Archivist 47 (Spring 1984): 164-71.

 

Barbara C. Orbach, “The View From the Researcher’s Desk: Historians’ Perceptions of Research and Repositories,” American Archivist 54 (Winter 1991): 28-43.

 

Helen Tibbo, “Interviewing Techniques for Remote Reference: Electronic Versus Traditional Environments,” American Archivist 58 (Summer 1995): 294-310.

 

Wendy M. Duff and Catherine A. Johnson, “A Virtual Expression of Need: An Analysis of E-mail Reference Questions,” American Archivist 64 (Spring/Summer 2001): 43-60.

 

Roland M. Baumann, “The Administration of Access in Confidential Records in State Archives: Common Practices and the Need for a Model Law,  American Archivist 49 (1986): 349-69.

Students should read the Society of American Archivists Code of Ethics, available at http://www.archivists.org/governance/handbook/app_ethics.asp and the

ALA-SAA Joint Statement on Access: Guidelines for Access to Original Research Materials, available at http://www.archivists.org/statements/alasaa.asp

 

Janna Malamud Smith, Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc., 1997).  Read selectively, focusing on aspects related to the questions of access to her father’s papers.

 

 

Session 6 (February 10, 2004)          

 

Legal Issues and Related Concerns in Access to Archival Records

 

Required Readings

 

Heather MacNeil, Without Consent: The Ethics of Disclosing Personal Information in Public Archives (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1992).  Read selectively.

 

Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (New York: Random House, 2000).  Focus on the nexus of access and security.

 

Raymond H. Geselbracht. “The Origins of Restrictions on Access to Personal Papers at the Library of Congress and the National Archives,” American Archivist 49, 2 (Spring 1986): 142-162.

 

Eric Ketelaar. “The Right to Know, the Right to Forget? Personal Information in Public Archives,” Archives and Manuscripts 23, 1 (1995): 8-17.

 

Sara S. Hodson,  Private Lives: Confidentiality in Modern Manuscript Collections,”  Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship 6 (1991): 108-18.

 

Diane S. Nixon,  Providing Access to Controversial Public Records: The Case of the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Investigation Files,” Public Historian 11 (Summer 1989): 29-44.

 

Michael Les Benedict,  Historians and the Continuing Controversy over Fair Use of Unpublished Manuscript Materials,” American Historical Review 91 (October 1986): 859-81; “A Different Perspective on Copyright,” Journal of Policy History  5, no. 2 (1993): 302-06.

 

Kenneth D. Crews, “Unpublished Manuscripts and the Right of Fair Use: Copyright Law and the Strategic Management of Information Resources,” Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship 5, no. 2 (1990):  61-70.

 

Irene Kearsey. “Some Problems in Placing Modern Medical Records in Public Archives,” Archives and Manuscripts 17, 2 (November 1989): 183-196.

 

Alice Robbin. “State Archives and Issues of Personal Privacy: Policies and Practices,” American Archivist 49, 2 (Spring 1986): 163-175.

 

Session 7 (February 17, 2004)

 

Archival Access, Reference, and Advocacy in a Changing Culture: Documenting or Commemorating 9/11?

 

Richard J. Cox with Mary K. Biagini, Toni Carbo, Tony Debons,Ellen Detlefsen, Jose Marie Griffiths, Don King, David Robins, Richard Thompson, Chris Tomer, and Martin Weiss, "The Day the World Changed: Implications for Archival, Library, and Information Science Education," First Monday 6-(December 3rd 2001), available at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_12/cox/

Students may choose to read one of the following two books:

 

Edward T. Linenthal, The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)

 

Kenneth E. Foote,  Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997)

 

Students also should search on the Web for sites related to the commemoration of events related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

 

 

SECTION TWO: ARCHIVAL PUBLIC PROGRAMMING, OUTREACH, AND ADVOCACY

 

Session 8 (February 24, 2004)          

 

Advocacy in a Postmodern Age: Archives and Societal Memory

 

Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth About History (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1994).  Read selectively.

 

Erna Parks, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History (New York: Bloomsbury, 2001).  Read selectively.

 

The notion of public memory has become a major industry in historical and sociological scholarship, with tremendous implications for archives and records management. Other volumes worth looking include:

 

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, rev. ed. (New York: Verso, 1991).

 

John Bodnar, Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century  (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992).

 

Stewart Brand, The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility (New York: Basic Books, 1999).

 

Ian Buruma, The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan (New York: Meridian, 1994).

 

Paul Connerton,  How Societies Remember (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

 

Frances Fitzgerald, America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1979).

 

Todd Gitlin, The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars (New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Co., 1995).

 

David Glassberg, Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001).

 

James Green, Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000).

 

Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory, ed. & trans. Lewis A. Coser (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).

 

James Davison Hunter, Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (New York: Basic Books, 1991).

 

Patrick H. Hutton, History as an Art of Memory (Hanover: University of Vermont, 1993).

 

Jacques Le Goff, History and Memory, trans.  Steven Rendall and Elizabeth Claman (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992).

 

Lawrence W. Levine, The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture and History (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996).

 

George Lipsitz,  Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990).

 

James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong  (New York: The New Press, 1995).

 

David Lowenthal, The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

 

David Lowenthal, The Past Is A Foreign Country (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985).

 

Matt K. Matsuda, The Memory of the Modern  (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).

 

Gary B. Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn,. History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past (New York: Alfred B. Knopf, 1997).

 

Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998).

 

Raphael Samuel, Theatres of Memory.  Volume 1: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture (New York: Verso, 1994).

 

Peter N. Stearns, Meaning Over Memory: Recasting the Teaching of Culture and History  (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993).

 

 

 

Session 9 (March 2, 2004)

 

On Trial: Archives and Evidence

 

Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (New York: Free Press, 1993).  Read selectively.

 

Richard J. Evans, Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial (New York: Basic Books, 2001).  Read selectively.

 

The Holocaust, the trial about the veracity of this event and the issues of reparations for its victims, has led to a large amount of scholarly and other analysis with insights into the value of records for evidence.  Students might want to read portions of the following:

 

Tom Bower, Nazi Gold: The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe’s Jews and Holocaust Survivors  (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997).

 

Hector Feliciano, The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World’s Greatest Works of Art (New York: HarperBooks, 1997).

 

Jeanette Greenfield, The Return of Cultural Treasures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

 

William H. Honan, Treasure Hunt: A New York Times Reporter Tracks the Quedlinburg Hoard (New York: Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1997).

 

Itamar Levin, The Last Deposit: Swiss Banks and Holocaust Victims’ Accounts, trans.  Natasha Dornberg  (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999).

 

Heather MacNeil,. Trusting Records: Legal, Historical, and Diplomatic Perspectives (Dorddrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000).

 

Lynn H. Nicholas, The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (New York: Vintage Books, 1994).

 

Jonathan Petropoulos, Art as Politics in the Third Reich (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).

 

Jonathan Petropoulos, The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).

 

Michael Sherma and Alex Grobman, Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?  (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).

 

Elizabeth Simpson, ed., The Spoils of War: World War II and Its Aftermath; The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Propert