Archival and Historical Methods

Introduction of instructor and participants

Fundamentals of Primary Source Analysis

• Library of Congress collections
• National Archives educator resources

Brass Tacks: How to Even Find an Archive!

• WorldCat (Columbia Libraries)
• ArchiveGrid
• Digital Public Library of America
• UCLA Library Digital Collections

Short Video Interlude

• Vanderbilt Television News Archive
• Internet Archive Television Archive
• Magic Johnson HIV/AIDS Conference — Part I
• Magic Johnson HIV/AIDS Conference — Part II

Lunch

Published Primary Sources (Part I)

• U.S. Government Publishing Office catalog
• Public hearings (Columbia Libraries)
• C-SPAN public affairs video archive
• Supreme Court opinions
• PubMed
• Index Medicus at the Internet Archive

Archival Visit (Part I)

Homework discussion

• ACT UP Oral History Project

Discussion of archival finds, ambiguities, and challenges encountered

Oral History (Part I)

• Oral History Association
• Upload an interview for transcription

Quantitative Evidence

• Open the tuberculosis time-series lab
• Open the CSV notebook
• Open the NHGIS map lab
• NHGIS
• Vital Statistics of the United States
• New York City historical tuberculosis reports
• Social Explorer (Columbia Libraries)

Oral History (Part II)

• Baylor oral history guide
• OHMS viewer

Lunch!

Published Primary Sources (II): Newspapers

• ProQuest Historical Newspapers (Columbia Libraries)
• Library of Congress newspaper collections
• New York State Historic Newspapers
• California Digital Newspaper Collection
• Google Books

Archival Visit (Part II)

Historical Research and AI

• spaCy course
• OpenRefine
• Transkribus

Parting words and homework talk