I had a wonderful conversation last night at the DC History Center with Kerrie Cotten Williams, Head, Manuscript Division Reference and Readers Services Section, Library of Congress. As head of the Library’s Manuscript Division reference section—which holds more than 73 million items in 12,000 collections from President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address to Frank Kameny’s 1961 Petition to the Supreme Court— Kerrie Williams is a big believer in original archival research and “archive activism” for everyone. I loved talking to her about R=A, research equals activism.
Charles Francis 