Archives

An archive is an accumulation of historical records or the physical place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of that person or organization. Professional archivists and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative, or social activities. ...more

Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression
Dust: The Archive and Cultural History (Encounters: Cultural Histories)
Arranging & Describing Archives & Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series II)
The Allure of the Archives
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation
Understanding Archives & Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series)
Archives: Principles and Practices
Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History
To Kill a Mockingbird
Processing the Past: Contesting Authority in History and the Archives
Archives Power: Memory, Accountability, and Social Justice
Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual (How-To-Do-It Manuals for Libraries)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Thomas Jefferson
“ Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident. ”
― Thomas Jefferson

“ Archive as if the future depends on it. ”
― Lisbet Tellefsen

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