First of three sessions, Pop-Up Professional Development Sessions:

“Dirty Deeds: The Promise and Challenge of Local Property Records as an Archival Source”, June 13, 2022, 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., CDT.

Presented by Colin Gordon.

This is the first session of ASLAA’s first Pop-Up Professional Development Sessions lasting from June 13-15, 2022. The sessions are accessible via Zoom and discuss the challenges of documenting underrepresented groups in archives. These presentations will look at the types of gaps in the historical record, misinformation, and ways researchers and archivists are overcoming these challenges.

Presentations will be approximately 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. 

Colin Gordon is Professor of History at the University of Iowa.  His recent work includes Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs (2019) and Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City ( 2008).  His current research, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Russell Sage Foundation, is on the use of private racial restrictions in early twentieth century urban development. 

Location: via Zoom

Free to all ASLAA members.