Cassandra Day
Don’t Let History Live in a Shoebox: How to Archive Your Family Treasures
Are you the designated “historian” in your family? Do you have piles of family photos, books, and papers taking up space in…
From the Badlands to the Tetons: A 1930s Family Road Trip West
Long before smartphones and GPS guided travelers across the country, the Pease family packed their car and headed west. Their destination? The…
The Myth of the Fully Processed Archive
When you think of an archive, you probably imagine countless collections all perfectly organized and described down to the last scrap of paper. You may…
Heart Mountain Through the Lens
Each July, former detainees, their families and descendants, gather at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center for the annual pilgrimage to reflect and…
Speaking in Code: Rare Winchester Telegraph Code Books
Among the rarest items in the McCracken Research Library’s archival collections are three Winchester Telegraph Code Books from 1905 and 1909. At first glance they look like…
The Secret Custer Letter: Rediscovering Little Bighorn at 150
Earlier this year, while reprocessing the MS 89 Jack Richard Collection, our Archives Assistant stumbled upon a September 14, 1975, article by Zeke Scher published…