H-HistBibl is an international network of librarians, archivists, curators, and scholars interested in the practice and study of bibliographic and library services to support the study and teaching of history.
"As Black History Month celebrates the African-American cultural narrative this February, rarely is it considered that America's neighbor to the north has a thriving community of Afro-Canadians, descendants of American slaves. Their story is meticulously recorded in "The Inspection Rolls of Negroes," which is housed in the National Archives in Washington D.C.... "
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Nicole Ferraiolo provides "a snapshot of the interdisciplinary conversations that emerged between users and information professionals, and the intradisciplinary conversations about archives among historians" that took place at the recent meeting of the American Historical Association.
Source: Nicole Ferraiolo, "The User's Perspective: What Information Professionals Can Learn from AHA," CLIR Issues no. 103 (Jan.-Feb. 2015), http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues103/issues103#perspective
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The Society for U.S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) has a blog in which Kurt Newman wrote a post on the origin of copyright law in the United States.
Did you know that "by the time that the Continental Congress met to consider copyright matters, three state-level copyright regimes had already been set in motion"?
