W&M Libraries Blog

2012

• Crafting an Administrative History

  Posted on February 24, 2012
  From the Special Collections Blog
  As a student of eighteenth century history, I had rarely been called upon to craft any sort of administrative history before embarking on my project relating to the Ferguson Seminar in Publishing records.  It is amazing how much information can be gathered from only one box of information and how an administrative

• Searching for a Name, Finding a Community

  Posted on February 9, 2012
  From the Special Collections Blog
  Identifying authorship of anything is always a long and arduous process, but it is made increasingly difficult when the author is not a famous member of the community.  Norfolk, Virginia, was a bustling town at the start of the twentieth century and had an African American population thirsty for rights and acceptance.  One such person was the author of the