An inventory list from one of my archival collections. Photo Credit: Alan Chen.
In my last blog post, I wrote about the preparation that goes into preparing to write a senior thesis, especially in Columbia’s history department. Since then, I’ve received a few questions on archives: how to locate them; how to plan an itinerary around them; and how a day spent at the archives might look. In the third installment of my de facto series on archives and Columbia’s archival research fellowships, I aim to answer a few of these questions in a Q&A format. As the prospect of writing a senior thesis looms on the horizon for many third-years, I hope this helps clarify a few things—both for those applying to research fellowships and, more broadly, for those generally interested in archival research.
