On-Line Global Research Tactics for the Twenty-First Century:

The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) Digital Archive and Related Online Resources

Friday 23 October, 9-11am, Eastern Standard Time via Zoom

The National Archives, the UK Government Archive

Friday 13 November, 9-11am, Eastern Standard Time via Zoom

RSVP: [email protected]

(Please note which seminar you would like to attend, or both)

Please join us for a new series of ad-hoc seminars to explore freely-accessible on-line digital collections with archivists internationally. With massive numbers of free-access collections globally going digital, how do we remain disciplined and targeted when searching, yet also let the information lead us to new findings? As with old-fashioned approaches, the archivists can guide us to new understandings via zoomed meetings.

On 23 October we will explore the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) digital archive, and other official U.S. foreign relations documentation online with the Office of the Historian, Department of State. The session will be led by Michael McCoyer, PhD (Northwestern, 2007), Joint Historian with the CIA, and Joseph Wicentowski, Ph.D. (Harvard, 2007), Digital History Advisor.

The 13 November seminar will focus on the Cold War and take us to the British National Archives in Kew Gardens, UK, to meet with Mark Dunton, Principal Records Specialist for Contemporary records. “The archives have the capacity to surprise us and it is possible to explore a range of significant resources from home”, Mark notes. This workshop session will highlight the many digital resources which scholars can access in order to carry out extensive research in Cold War subjects - to make new discoveries and gain new insights. Mark will relate his experience of curating the Cold War exhibition,

‘Protect and Survive: Britain's Cold War Revealed', and talk about the themes which emerged, including the Cold War and popular culture.

The first seminar took us to the Rockefeller Archive Center in Tarrytown, NY, and the Open Society Archives in Budapest, Hungary. For recordings of these sessions, please contact Dr. Victoria Phillips, the key organizer of this effort, at the email above.