Elsie Freeman Finch receiving an award from Archivist of the United States Bert Rhoads, May 12, 1977. (Photo courtesy of Alex Poole, from the National Archives of the United States)
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Recent News & Announcements
The Archival History Section seeks an editor(s) to assist in the production of Archival History News (https://archivalhistorynews.wordpress.com/). The newsletter Editor(s) will be appointed to a one-year term, beginning as early as May 2018 through August 2019.
Outgoing AHS Chair Eric Stoykovich has a fascinating article, "Public Records in War: Toward an Archival History of the American Civil War," in the Spring/Summer 2017 issue of The American Archivist.
The AHS section election (July 2017) will include a referendum.
An expanded version of the AHS's Bibliography of Archival History is now available! Please find the PDF attached at the link.
