The Afterlives of a Confederate Archive
Civil War Documents and the Making of Sectional Reconciliation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4156235 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yael A Sternhell (Tel Aviv University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1025-1050 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jav747 |
| OpenAlex | W2333510539 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The archive lies at the center of our work as historians. We spend months and years in its reading rooms, looking for elusive facts, arcane documents, and obscure stories. The archive defines and differentiates us from fellow humanists, gives credence to our claims for knowledge, and enshrouds our narratives with an aura of truth. Both real and romanticized, it is our place of labor and also an emblem of our craft. Yet how often do we stop to ask ourselves questions about the archives we work in? When have we last probed our source material, attempted to investigate the circumstances that brought it into our possession, or examined the structures underlying the collections we use? While influential books such as Bonnie Smith's The Gender of History and W. Fitzhugh Brundage's The Southern Past have investigated the meaning of archival work in particular contexts, historians of the United States tend to look through archives, but rarely at them.1
Art · Craft · Credence · Emblem · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Political science · Possession (linguistics · Reading (process · Spanish Civil War · American History and Culture · History · Law · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |