Related Readings for Perspectives on Women's Archives

American Archivist

• “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story”: The Use and Representation of Records in Hamilton: An American Musical” by Katherine S. Madison, American Archivist 80.1 (Spring/Summer 2017)

• “Filling the Gaps”: Oral Histories and Underdocumented Populations in The American Archivist, 1938–2011” by Jessica Wagner Webster, American Archivist 79.2 (Fall/Winter 2016)

• “‘To Suddenly Discover Yourself Existing’: Uncovering the Impact of Community Archives” by Michelle Caswell, Marika Cifor, and Mario H. Ramirez, American Archivist 79.1 (Spring/Summer 2016)

• “Wisconsin School for Girls Inmate Record Books: A Case Study of Redacted Digitization” by Laura Farley and Eric Willey, American Archivist 78.2 (Fall/Winter 2015)

• “Documenting Maryland Women State Legislators: The Politics of Collecting Women's Political Papers” by Elizabeth Novara, American Archivist 76.1 (Spring/Summer 2013)\

• “Seventy-Five Years of International Women's Collecting: Legacies, Successes, Obstacles, and New Directions (Session 506)” by Rachel Miller, Danelle Moon, and Anke Voss, American Archivist 74, Supplement 1 (January 2011)

• “Archives for All: Professional Responsibility and Social Justice” by Randall Jimerson, American Archivist 70.2 (Fall/Winter 2007)

• “We Are What We Collect, We Collect What We Are: Archives and the Construction of Identity” by Elisabeth Kaplan, American Archivist 63.1 (Spring/Summer 2000)

• "No Documents—No History": Mary Ritter Beard and the Early History of Women's Archives” by Anke Voss-Hubbard, American Archivist 58.1 (Winter 1995)

• “Founding Mothers: Women in the Society of American Archivists, 1936-1972” by Michele Pacifico, American Archivist 50.3 (Summer 1987) 

Archival Outlook

• “A Legendary Photograph: The Story of War, a Sweetheart, and Junior College in 1970” by JoyEllen Freeman, Archival Outlook (March/April 2018)

• “You’re No One ‘Til Somebody Hates You: The Effect of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election on an Exhibit of a Feminist Activist” by Jill Waycie, Archival Outlook (November/December 2017)

• “Supporting Student Activism through Archives: Documenting the Women’s March on Washington and Beyond” by Chloe Raub, Archival Outlook (July/August 2017)

• “Founding WARriors: Women Archivists Section’s Wikipedia Edit-a-thon” by Leslie Van Veen McRoberts and Bethany Anderson, Archival Outlook (May/June 2017)

• “Diversity in Archives” by Desiree Alaniz, Archival Outlook (March/April 2017)

• “Centering the Person: DocNow Project” by Desiree P. Jones-Smith, Archival Outlook (November/December 2016)

• “The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria” by Abigail Christian, Archival Outlook (March/April 2016)

• “Wikipedia, Gender, and Archives: Closing the Gender Gap on Wikipedia through Archives” by Chloe Raub, Archival Outlook (May/June 2015)

• “Controversial History: The Value of Context in Archives” by Leslie Schuyler, Archival Outlook (March/April 2014)