Articles

Eight Best Practices
Our Teaching Philosophy
Our Findings
Engaging Students in the Archives: Counteracting the “Violence of Abstraction”
The Single Visit Model: Fitting the Archives into a Survey Course
Texts as Objects: Complementing the Literary Anthology with Primary Sources
Teaching Students What Historians Do: The Archives and the History Survey
Witnessing the American Religious Experience in the Archives
Basic Writers in the Archives
Fitting It All In: Incorporating Archival Materials into a World History Survey Course
What Is Document Analysis?
The Appeal of the Archives: Engaging Students in More Meaningful Research
Impromptu Speaking Opportunities in the Archives: A Guide for Evaluating Students
Photographic Memory: Using Historical Images to Improve Student Learning
Why Less is More in the Archives
Preparing Students for the Archives: The Research-to-Learn Method
“Rehistoricizing” the Art Museum: How Archives Visits Improved My Art History Courses
History is an Argument
The Archives as Touchstone: A Semester of Student Engagement
How Archives Can Teach Design Students to Effectively Communicate Ideas
Visiting the Archives is a High-Impact Educational Practice
Crafting Effective Learning Objectives
Creating Meaningful Faculty-Staff Collaboration
Choosing the Right Documents
Making Logistical Decisions
Creating In-Archives Handouts
Providing Context
Teach Care and Handling
Teaching Students about Citations
Using Cameras and Tablets in the Archives
Building Students’ Paleography Skills
How to Plan an Effective Wrap Up
Incorporating Place-Based Learning in an Archives Experience

Exercises

Bite-Sized Research: Annotating Civil War Correspondence
Exploring the Rhetoric of Slave Bills of Sale before and after Gradual Manumission
What is Vaudeville? The Brooklyn Experience
Telling Brooklyn Stories, part I: Impromptu Speeches in the Archives
Mustering Men during the Civil War: Fighting for Freedom, Imposing the Draft
Digging for Garbage in the Archives
Politics and Religion in Civil War Letters
Civil Rights in Brooklyn: A Scaffolded Approach
Runaway Slave Ads: Witnessing African American Agency
Photography over Time: Comparing Formats
Exploring Coney Island’s Heyday in the Archives: The “Smorgasbord” Approach
Telling Brooklyn Stories, part II: Building a Collaborative Walking Tour
Analyzing Patriotic Iconography: Illustrated Civil War Envelopes
Research from Start to Finish: Using The Archives in a Scaffolded Research Project

The Project

SAFA Class Visits to the Archives
SAFA Summer Fellowships
SAFA Summer Institutes
Useful Tools

Articles

Eight Best Practices
Our Teaching Philosophy
Our Findings
Engaging Students in the Archives: Counteracting the “Violence of Abstraction”
The Single Visit Model: Fitting the Archives into a Survey Course
Texts as Objects: Complementing the Literary Anthology with Primary Sources
Teaching Students What Historians Do: The Archives and the History Survey
Witnessing the American Religious Experience in the Archives
Basic Writers in the Archives
Fitting It All In: Incorporating Archival Materials into a World History Survey Course
What Is Document Analysis?
The Appeal of the Archives: Engaging Students in More Meaningful Research
Impromptu Speaking Opportunities in the Archives: A Guide for Evaluating Students
Photographic Memory: Using Historical Images to Improve Student Learning
Why Less is More in the Archives
Preparing Students for the Archives: The Research-to-Learn Method
“Rehistoricizing” the Art Museum: How Archives Visits Improved My Art History Courses
History is an Argument
The Archives as Touchstone: A Semester of Student Engagement
How Archives Can Teach Design Students to Effectively Communicate Ideas
Visiting the Archives is a High-Impact Educational Practice
Crafting Effective Learning Objectives
Creating Meaningful Faculty-Staff Collaboration
Choosing the Right Documents
Making Logistical Decisions
Creating In-Archives Handouts
Providing Context
Teach Care and Handling
Teaching Students about Citations
Using Cameras and Tablets in the Archives
Building Students’ Paleography Skills
How to Plan an Effective Wrap Up
Incorporating Place-Based Learning in an Archives Experience

Exercises

Bite-Sized Research: Annotating Civil War Correspondence
Exploring the Rhetoric of Slave Bills of Sale before and after Gradual Manumission
What is Vaudeville? The Brooklyn Experience
Telling Brooklyn Stories, part I: Impromptu Speeches in the Archives
Mustering Men during the Civil War: Fighting for Freedom, Imposing the Draft
Digging for Garbage in the Archives
Politics and Religion in Civil War Letters
Civil Rights in Brooklyn: A Scaffolded Approach
Runaway Slave Ads: Witnessing African American Agency
Photography over Time: Comparing Formats
Exploring Coney Island’s Heyday in the Archives: The “Smorgasbord” Approach
Telling Brooklyn Stories, part II: Building a Collaborative Walking Tour
Analyzing Patriotic Iconography: Illustrated Civil War Envelopes
Research from Start to Finish: Using The Archives in a Scaffolded Research Project

The Project

SAFA Class Visits to the Archives
SAFA Summer Fellowships
SAFA Summer Institutes
Useful Tools