Mark Edwin Peterson

What Can Academic Special Collections Do?

Chapters

  1. The Professor, with the Theory, in the Library

  2. Defining Knowledge
    1. Bryn Mawr College
    2. The Kislak Center
    3. Medieval Studies

  3. Explaining Special Collections
    1. Columbia University
    2. Rare Book School
    3. Virginia History

  4. Protecting the Nation
    1. The University of Maryland
    2. The Hoover Institute
    3. Area Studies

  5. Converting to Digital
    1. The University of Richmond
    2. SUCHO.org
    3. Library Science

  6. Promoting Justice
    1. Bard College
    2. Immigration History Research Center Archives
    3. Provenance Studies

  7. Redefining Collections
    1. Florida International University
    2. The Blinken Archive
    3. Critical Archival Studies

  8. Collections and the Academy

Past Dissertation Title Ideas

Special Collections in the Liberal Arts College
Digital Aura: American Universities and Their Early Printed Books The Power of Collections in the American Century
An American City Needs A Library
Digital - Library - Culture
The Mines of American Academia: Collection, Extraction, Transformation
The Pages of History: Collections and Curricula in the Service of 20th Century America
Special Collections and the National Idea
Historians, Collections, and Class
Medieval Books and American Empire
Collecting the Lessons of Empire: Modern Americans and the Fifteenth Century
damnatio memoriae
Toxic Medievalism and Yugoslavia
Other People's Middle Ages
Nationalism, Memory, and Yugoslavia
Erasing Enemy History
Libraries, Medievalisms, Yugoslavias
Libraries, Culture, and Genocide

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Old Chapter Ideas

  1. Introduction
    1. Capitalist Nation
    2. Institutionalism
    3. The Cultural Study of Collections

  2. History
    1. Washington & Lee Defines Virginia
    2. Confronting Slavery at Oberlin
    3. 1619

  3. Higher Education
    1. Willamette Converts Heathens
    2. Cementing America's Empire
    3. Reassessments of Imperial Science

  4. The Liberal Arts College
    1. St. Olaf Forges Americans
    2. Educating Immigrants
    3. Collections for Communities

  5. The Library
    1. Bryn Mawr Teaches Science
    2. Collecting for Research
    3. Treasures of Print

  6. The Archive
    1. Bard Defends the Individual
    2. Recording Human Rights Abuses
    3. Blinken Open Society Archives

  7. Conclusion
  1. Description & Plan
  2. Special Collections in America
  3. A Cultural Studies Approach
  4. Colleges as Social Institutions
  5. The College Library
  6. Building Collections
  7. Collections
  8. Books
  9. Primary Sources
  10. Old Books
  11. School Records
  12. Data
  13. Goals
  14. Education
  15. Research
  16. Proselytizing
  17. Prestige<
  18. Preservation<
  19. Description
  20. Lists<
  21. Catalogs
  22. Censuses
  23. Union Catalogs
  24. Databases<
  25. Failings
  26. Myopia
  27. Ignorance
  28. Inviability
  29. Theft
  30. Isolation
  31. Meaning
  32. History
  33. Education
  34. Identity
  35. Community
  36. Survival
  1. Students
  2. Employees
  3. Academia
  4. Alumni
  5. Society
  6. Critical Librarianship
  7. Collections
  8. Catalogs
  9. Patrons
  10. Donors
  11. The Archive
  12. The Meaning of Academic Special Collections
  13. Preserving Heritage
  14. Teaching the Liberal Arts
  15. Maintaining Colleges
  16. Changing History
  17. Reflecting Culture
  1. Theory
  2. History
  3. Cultural Studies
  4. Critical College Studies
  5. Critical Librarianship
  6. History
  7. The Liberal Arts
  8. Library Science
  9. Making Collections Special
  10. Special Collections Go to College
  11. Cultural Studies
  12. The Politics of Culture
  13. Academic Discourse
  14. Reforming the Library
  15. Today's Political Economy
  16. Understanding the Digital
  17. Critical College Studies
  18. Students
  19. Employees
  20. Academia
  21. Alumni
  22. Society
  23. Critical Librarianship
  24. Collections
  25. Catalogs
  26. Patrons
  27. Donors
  28. The Archive
  29. The Meaning of Academic Special Collections
  30. Preserving Heritage
  31. Teaching the Liberal Arts
  32. Maintaining Colleges
  33. Changing History
  34. Reflecting Culture
  1. Old Books in America
  2. A Cultural Studies Approach
  3. American Universities as Social Institutions
  4. The Political Economy of Academic Libraries
  5. Meanings
  6. Incunabula Collectors
  7. Building the American University
  8. Graduate Schools
  9. Research Libraries
  10. Special Collections
  11. Lists
  12. Catalogs
  13. Censuses
  14. Union Catalogs
  15. Databases
  16. Facsimiles
  17. Reading Rooms
  18. Exhibits
  19. Websites
  20. Digital Copies
  21. Users
  22. Scholarship
  23. Subjects
  24. Sentiment
  25. Administration
  26. Money
  27. Politics
  28. Authority
  29. Criticism
  30. Resistance
  1. Collecting for an American Empire
  2. Historians
  3. Librarians
  4. The Issues for Academic Libraries
  5. Seizing the Legacies of European Culture
  6. Medical Men
  7. University Builders
  8. The Journeys of American Codices
  9. Putting Bananas on the Table
  10. Marines
  11. Critics
  12. The Records of Secret Wars
  13. Controlling the Pacific
  14. Explorers
  15. Compilers
  16. The Voices of Earlier Cultures
  17. Combatting the Reds
  18. Think Tanks
  19. Revisionsists
  20. The Understanding of American Blindness
  21. Predicting the Future
  1. Needs
  2. Places
  3. Theories
  4. Jefferson
  5. Wilson
  6. Hoover
  7. Rare Books
  8. Archives
  9. Ephemera
  10. Scholars Lab - Mapping the Library Trade
  11. HathiTrust - Pacific Trust Territory
  12. Hoover Institution - German Politics
  13. Who Are the Digital Humanists?
  1. Introducing Cultural Studies to the American University
  2. The History Seminar at Johns Hopkins University
  3. Special Collections
  4. Archaeology of Reading
  5. Digital Project: The Prosopography of Collecting
  6. Bibliography
  7. Book Traces
  8. Digital Project: Mapping Special Collections
  9. Library School
  10. Humanities without Walls
  11. Digital Project: Sources from the Treasure House
  12. Digital Humanities
  13. HathiTrust
  14. Digital Project: Pacific Trust Territory
  15. Conclusion:
  1. Introduction: The Heart of Yale
  2. The Science of History, 1900-1915
  3. Medieval Treasures
  4. American Medievalism
  5. Digital Case Study: Mapping Manuscripts
  6. American Imperialism, 1916-1930
  7. Incunabula
  8. The Histories of Nations
  9. Digital Project: Comparing Texts
  10. Libraries at War, 1931-1945
  11. Collections
  12. The Preservation of Civilization
  13. Digital Case Study: Recovering Nazi Loot
  14. Global Empire, 1946-1960
  15. Scrolls, Archives, and Samizdat
  16. Common Culture
  17. Digital Case Study: Occupied Japan
  18. 21st Century Academics
  19. Digital Case Study: Voices of the Enslaved
  20. Digital Project: Identities and Absences in Big Data
  21. Conclusion: Digital Humanities at the Scholars Lab
  1. Introduction: The Heart of Yale
  2. The Science of History at Johns Hopkins, 1900-1910
  3. Princeton's President, 1910-1920
  4. Medieval Booty
  5. Digital Project: The Flow of Incunabula to America
  6. Wisconsin Frontier History, 1920-1930
  7. The Library of Angels, 1930-1940
  8. Columbia at War, 1940-1950
  9. Recovering Nazi Loot
  10. Digital Project: The Books We Will Never See
  11. Ransom's King, 1950-1960
  12. Hoover's Institution, 1960-1970
  13. Special Collections at Virginia, 1970-1980
  14. The Treasures of America's Pacific Empire
  15. Digital Project: Trust Territory Descriptions
  16. Reassessing the Book at Washington University, 1980-1990
  17. Open Society Archives, 1990-2000
  18. Responding to Destruction in the Balkans
  19. Digital Project: Identiies and Absences
  20. Conclusion: Digital Humanities at the University of Richmond
  1. The Peabody
  2. Johns Hopkins University
  3. Western Civ.
  4. Woodrow Wilson
  5. History Makers
  6. UCLA<
  7. Defenders of Democracy<
  8. FDR & Eisenhower
  9. Imperialists
  10. Hoover Institution
  11. Anti-Communists
  12. LBJ & Reagan
  13. Cold Warriors
  14. Wisconsin
  15. A New World Order
  16. Bill Clinton
  17. The World's Policemen
  1. Collectors
  2. Librarians
  3. Historians
  4. Professors
  5. Students
  6. Publishers
  7. Politicians
  8. Empire Wreckers
  9. Restorers
  10. The New Imperialists
  1. Early History
  2. Yugoslavia Torn Apart
  3. Today
  4. History and Cultural Studies
  5. American Historians
  6. Collecting the World
  7. Data Methods
  8. Ming
  9. HRE
  10. Ottoman
  11. Competing Lessons of Empire
  12. 20th Century Changes
  13. Institutions of the 21st Century
  14. Using the Past of the Past
  15. The Hope of History
  1. Europe's Digital Library
  2. Rebuilding Collections
  3. Diasporas
  4. Twenty First Century Identities
  5. Community Built Medievalism as Reconciliation
  6. Digital Techniques
  7. Pilot Project
  8. Reactions
  1. Woodrow Wilson, Medievalist
  2. Medievalisms in Twentieth Century America
  3. The Balkan Wars
  4. End of the Ottoman Empire
  5. Medieval Texts in American Libraries
  6. Yugoslavia in World War II
  7. Medievalism Under Tito
  8. Western Medievalism, Eastern Texts
  9. The Power of Medievalism
  10. Serbia
  11. Bosnia
  12. Croatia
  13. Kosovo
  14. North Macedonia
  15. Neighbors
  16. Americans