Category Archives: Archival Research

Archivist Job Openings with the National Archives

Posted on December 7, 2021 by briansandberg

The National Archives and Records Administration has 35 archivist job openings at their location in Spanish Lake, MO. The job announcement indicates: “This position is part of the National Archives and Records Administration. The purpose of this position is to … Continue reading →

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Archives Technician Job Opening

Posted on November 17, 2021 by briansandberg

The National Archives is currently advertising an Archives Technician position in the Midwest. Undergraduate and graduate students and recent graduates in History at Northern Illinois University may be interested in applying for this position. The position announcement from the National … Continue reading →

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Paleography Studies

Posted on September 2, 2021 by briansandberg

The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library is offering a series of courses in paleography studies intended for graduate students in the humanities. Paleography skills are vital for manuscript studies and archival work in the discipline of history, … Continue reading →

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Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards for Research in France

Posted on May 27, 2021 by briansandberg

The Fulbright Scholar Program of the United States Department of State is hosting a Fulbright U.S. Scholar: Spotlight on France Webinar on its research awards for U.S. scholars to travel to France to conduct research in various fields. The Fulbright … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival Research, Cultural History, French History, French Wars of Religion, Graduate Work in History, Grants and Fellowships, Study Abroad, Undergraduate Work in History | Leave a comment

Word and Image in Print and Digital Archives

Posted on May 25, 2021 by briansandberg

The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library will be offering a research methods workshop on Word and Image in Print and Digital Archives this Fall on Friday 15 October 2021. Graduate students in History and the Humanities at … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival Research, Cartographic History, Cultural History, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, European History, Graduate Work in History, Historiography and Social Theory, Humanities Education, Lectures and Seminars, Reformation History, Renaissance Art and History | Leave a comment

Kress Fellowships at the Medici Archive Project

Posted on May 10, 2021 by briansandberg

The Medici Archive Project in Florence, Italy, is offering two Samuel H. Kress Fellowships for graduate students interested in pursuing archival research at the Archivio di Stato di Firenze and other Florentine archives. These fellowships offer American graduate students a … Continue reading →

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Rescuing Sacred Music of the Renaissance

Posted on April 14, 2021 by briansandberg

Renaissance music is being studied in new ways at the Medici Archive Project in Florence, Italy. A news magazine piece on “Rescuing Sacred Music of the Renaissance” from CBS Sunday Morning features Music and the Medici, a research program of … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival Research, Art History, Court Studies, Cultural History, Current Research, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, European History, History in the Media, History of the Book, Italian History, Manuscript Studies, Material Culture, Mediterranean World, Museums and Historical Memory, Music History, Reformation History, Renaissance Art and History, World History | Leave a comment

New Digital Humanities Techniques Open Locked Letters

Posted on March 2, 2021 by briansandberg

Early modern writers sometimes employed letterlocking in order to close letters securely using complex practices of folding, cutting, inserting tabs, and sewing. The New York Times reports: “In an era before sealed envelopes, this technique, now called letterlocking, was as … Continue reading →

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A Violin and the Mechanisms of Peace and Reconciliation

Posted on January 25, 2021 by briansandberg

A violin constructed by Giuseppe Guarneri, an eighteenth-century violin maker from Cremona known as del Gesù (of Jesus), has become the center of a controversy over the legacies of Nazi coercion and looting of artworks belonging to Jewish victims of … Continue reading →

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Seminar on Latin Sources in the Archives of the Crown of Aragon

Posted on January 15, 2021 by briansandberg

Graduate students interested in medieval history, and particularly those wanting to learn how to use Latin sources in medieval archives, may be interested in an upcoming Mediterranean Summer Skills Seminar: Introduction to the Archive of the Crown of Aragon (documents … Continue reading →

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