Archival Research—the Richard M. Nixon Library
Wilkinson College Graduate Student Workshop
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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