Beyond the archives: research as a lived process

Introduction: The role of serendipity, family connections, and cultural memory in historical research / Gesa E. Kirsch and Liz Rohan

The accidental archivist : embracing chance and confusion in historical scholarship / David Gold

Being on location : serendipity, place, and archival research / Gesa E. Kirsch

Getting to know them : concerning research into four early women writers / Christine Mason Sutherland

Making connections / Alicia Nitecki

Traces of the familiar : family archives as primary source material / Wendy B. Sharer

The biography of a graveyard / Ronald R. Stockton

In a treeless landscape : a research narrative / Kathleen Wider

My grandfather's trunk / Barry Rohan

Colonial memory, colonial research : a preamble to a case study / Victor Villanueva

Unbundling : archival research and Japanese American communal memory of U.S. Justice Department internment, 1941-45 / Gail Y. Okawa

Mississippi on my mind / W. Ralph Eubanks

Dreaming Charles Eastman : cultural memory, autobiography, and geography in indigenous rhetorical histories / Malea Powell

Cultural memory and the lesbian archive / Kate Davy

"I see dead people" : archive, crypt, and an argument for the researcher's sixth sense / Elizabeth (Betsy) Birmingham

Stitching and writing a life / Liz Rohan

When two stories collide, they catch fire / Anca Vlasopolos

Stumbling in the archives : a tale of two novices / Lisa Mastrangelo and Barbara L'Eplattenier.