Beyond the archives : research as a lived process / edited by Gesa E. Kirsch and Liz Rohan ; with a foreword by Lucille M. Schultz.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: The role of serendipity, family connections, and cultural memory in historical research / Gesa E. Kirsch, Liz Rohan -- The accidental archivist : embracing chance and confusion in historical scholarship / David Gold -- Being on location : serendipity, place, and archival research / Gesa E. Kirsch -- Getting to know them : concerning research into four early women writers / Christine Mason Sutherland -- Making connections / Alicia Nitecki -- Traces of the familiar : family archives as primary source material / Wendy B. Sharer -- The biography of a graveyard / Ronald R. Stockton -- In a treeless landscape : a research narrative / Kathleen Wider -- My grandfather's trunk / Barry Rohan -- Colonial memory, colonial research : a preamble to a case study / Victor Villanueva -- Unbundling : archival research and Japanese American communal memory of U.S. Justice Department internment, 1941-45 / Gail Y. Okawa -- Mississippi on my mind / W. Ralph Eubanks -- Dreaming Charles Eastman : cultural memory, autobiography, and geography in indigenous rhetorical histories / Malea Powell -- Cultural memory and the lesbian archive / Kate Davy -- "I see dead people" : archive, crypt, and an argument for the researcher's sixth sense / Elizabeth (Betsy) Birmingham -- Stitching and writing a life / Liz Rohan -- When two stories collide, they catch fire / Anca Vlasopolos -- Stumbling in the archives : a tale of two novices / Lisa Mastrangelo, Barbara L'Eplattenier.