Don’t forget that we will be meeting on Tuesday, January 20 in the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library.  As you prepare to explore the archives, consider one or more of the following questions, or pose your own:

1) How do you define archive? What about digital archive? How might an archivist like Theimer define these terms?

2) How might you compare and contrast the Whitman, Watkin and Our Marathon Archives? Who assembled them, and why? Who are their audiences? What criteria were used to put together the collections? How are the collections organized? How are the objects described?

3) What do you think of Sternfeld’s notions of “quantum history” and “digital historiography”?

4) How might we assess digital archival records which are, as Sternfeld says, “defined in terabytes”? What would it mean to consider scope and provenance in the course of doing research using digital archives?