Thursday7Nov 2019

Archival Research—the Richard M. Nixon Library

Wilkinson College Graduate Student Workshop

Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:00 p.m. - 6:50 p.m. PST
2019-11-07 16:00 2019-11-07 18:50 America/Los_Angeles Archival Research—the Richard M. Nixon Library Go to event listing for more details: https://events.chapman.edu/72934 Laura Scudder Conference Room, Roosevelt Hall Allison DeVries devries@chapman.edu

RSVP is required

Graduate Students can enroll in this workshop through my.chapman.edu. Course number is GUS 530.

Laura Scudder Conference Room, Roosevelt Hall

Staff, Faculty, Students, and Alumni

are invited to attend.

Thursday, November 7, 2019 4-6:50PM and Friday, November 8, 2019 10AM-1PM

Archival Research—the Richard M. Nixon Library

Laura Scudder Conference Room, Roosevelt Hall 121

 

This workshop offers a general introduction to conducting archival research in presidential libraries, exploring processes by which government documents are preserved, declassified, accessed, and interpreted.

3 hours on campus on Thursday, November 7 from 4-6:50pm.

 

The use of archives and archival sources is demonstrated through a hands-on component at the Nixon Library, utilizing some of the library's key collections, which are especially rich for foreign policy topics, such as the Vietnam War, U.S.-Soviet relations, the Arab-Israeli conflict and diplomacy, and the U.S. opening to the People's Republic of China.

3 hours at the Nixon Library on Friday, November 8 time from 10am-1pm.

 

The workshop leader is a historian of U.S. foreign relations with research experience at the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and (George H. W.) Bush Presidential Libraries.

 

Salim Yaqub, University of California, Santa Barbara Professor of History and Director of UCSB’s Center for Cold War Studies and International History

 Salim Yaqub is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Director of UCSB’s Center for Cold War Studies and International History. He is the author of Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East (University of North Carolina, 2004) and of several articles and book chapters on the history of U.S. foreign relations, the international politics of the Middle East, and Arab American political activism. His second book, Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.–Middle East Relations in the 1970s, was published by Cornell University Press in September 2016. He is now writing a post-1945 history of the United States for Cambridge University Press.

 

You can contact the event organizer, Allison DeVries at devries@chapman.edu or (714) 997-6752.

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