Archives, documentation, and institutions of social memory : essays from the Sawyer Seminar / edited by Francis X. Blouin Jr. and William G. Rosenberg.

"Something she called a fever" : Michelet, Derrida, and dust (or, in the archives with Michelet and Derrida) / Carolyn Steedman -- The problem of Publicite in the archives of second empire France / Jennifer S. Milligan -- Not dragon at the gate but research partner : the reference archivist as mediator / Kathleen Marquis -- Between veneration and loathing : loving and hating documents / James M. O'Toole -- Archiving/architecture / Kent Kleinman -- "Records of simple truth and precision" : photography, archives, and the illusion of control / Joan M. Schwartz -- Out of the closet and into the archives? : German Jewish papers / Atina Grossmann -- German Jewish archives in Berlin and New York : three generations after the fact / Frank Mecklenburg -- Medieval archivists as authors : social memory and archival memory / Patrick Geary -- The question of access : the right to social memory versus the right to social oblivion / Inge Bundsgaard -- Past imperfect (l'imparfait) : mediating meaning in archives of art / Nancy Ruth Bartlett -- An artifact by any other name : digital surrogates of medieval manuscripts / Stephen G. Nichols -- The panoptical archive / Eric Ketelaar -- Archival representation / Elizabeth Yakel -- Remembering the future : appraisal of records and the role of archives in constructing social memory / Terry Cook -- Creating a national information system in a federal environment : some thoughts on the Canadian archival information network / Laura Millar -- Archives, heritage, and history / David Lowenthal -- How privatization turned Britain's red telephone kiosk into an archive of the welfare state / Patrick Wright -- Archives : particles of memory or more? / Joan van Albada -- Lookin' for a home : independent oral history archives in Italy / Alessandro Portelli -- The public controversy over the Kennedy memorabilia project / Robert M. Adler -- Classified federal records and the end of the Cold War : the experience of the assassination records review board / William L. Joyce -- "Just a car" : the Kennedy car, the Lincoln chair, and the study of objects / Judith E. Endelman -- Memories of colonization : commemoration, preservation, and erasure in an African archive / Frederick Cooper -- Colonial archives and the arts of governance : on the content in the form / Ann Laura Stoler -- The provincial archive as a place of memory : confronting oral and written sources on the role of former slaves in the Cuban war of independence (1895-98) / Rebecca J. Scott -- Maroons in the archives : the uses of the past in the French Caribbean / Laurent Dubois -- Redemption's archive : remembering the future in a revolutionary past / Paul K. Eiss -- Documenting South Africa's liberation movements : engaging the archives at the University of Fort Hare / Brian Williams and William K. Wallach -- "The gift of one generation to another" : the real thing for the Pepsi generation / Ian E. Wilson -- Social history, public sphere, and national narratives : the social origins of Valencian regional imaginary in nineteenth-century Spain / Monica Burguera -- The influence of politics on the shaping of the memory of states in Western Europe (France) / Paule Rene-Bazin -- The role of the Swiss federal archives during recent politico-historical events and crises / Christoph Graf -- Television archives and the making of collective memory : Nazism and World War II in three television blockbusters of German public television / Wulf Kansteiner -- Revolution in the archives of memory : the founding of the national diet library in occupied Japan / Leslie Pincus -- The new masters of memory : libraries, archives, and museums in postcommunist Bosnia-Herzegovina / Robert J. Donia -- Writing home in the archive : "refugee memory" and the ethnography of documentation / Penelope Papailias -- Qing statesmen, archivists, and historians and the question of memory / Beatrice S. Bartlett -- The role of archives in Chinese society : an examination from the perspective of access / Du Mei -- Archives and histories in twentieth-century China / William C. Kirby -- Archives and historical writing : the case of the Menshevik Party in 1917 / Ziva Galili -- Russian history : is it in the archives? / Abby Smith -- Archiving heteroglossia : writing reports and controlling mass culture under stalin / Serhy Yekelchyk -- Ethnicity, memory, and violence : reflections on special problems in Soviet and East European archives / Jeffrey Burds -- Hesitations at the door to an archive catalog / Vladimir Lapin -- The historian and the source : problems of reliability and ethics / Boris V. Ananich.