HIS 395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: American Historical Association, Readwrite, American Antiquarian Society
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An archive is defined as: a place where public records or records of importance are held, a repository or collection of information. An archivist is defined as: a person responsible for the organization, preservation, and access to archival materials and their collections. Greeks and romans had their own archives at home: typically family materials, only a handful of these documents today, some of the first archivists, these records showed mostly their livelihoods through sometimes person recollections came through. Domesday book: a survey taken in 1086 for william i, two books: little domesday and great domesday, named for the day of judgement, has gone through a few digitizations. French revolution (1789-1799: ten year revolution to overthrow monarchy, documents to prove ownership, rights. Idea of document as law came over with the settlers: relied on local government and elite to keep records, government decided what was vital, including marriage/birth/death, colonists understood early that they needed to protect these records.
