{"id":14826,"date":"2016-05-30T11:01:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T15:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=14826"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:53:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:53:17","slug":"follow-adventures-archive-undergraduate-sarah-cole-explores-papers-sir-john-macdonald-library-archives-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2016\/follow-adventures-archive-undergraduate-sarah-cole-explores-papers-sir-john-macdonald-library-archives-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow \u201cAdventures in the Archive\u201d as Undergraduate Sarah Cole Explores the Papers of Sir John A. MacDonald at Library and Archives Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Follow \u201cAdventures in the Archive\u201d as Undergraduate Sarah Cole Explores the Papers of Sir John A. MacDonald at Library and Archives Canada\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Sarah-Cole-240x180.png\" alt=\"Sarah Cole\" class=\"wp-image-14829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Sarah-Cole-240x180.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Sarah-Cole-160x120.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Sarah-Cole-400x300.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Sarah-Cole-360x270.png 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Sarah-Cole.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations are in order for English and History major Sarah Cole, recipient of a Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Undergraduate Summer Research Internship!&nbsp; Sarah received the internship for her project on the Sir John A. Macdonald papers which are housed in Library and Archives Canada, here in Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Sarah explains in her blog, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/adventuresinthearchive.wordpress.com\/\">Adventures in the Archive<\/a>,\u201d (updated every Friday for the duration of the summer) the goal of her project is <em>not<\/em> to study Sir John A., himself, but rather how his papers came to be curated, categorized, and preserved in the way that they are and what this means for how we understand our national history. What\u2019s it like to do research at our national archive? How did the decisions of others \u2013 archivists, bureaucrats, family members \u2013 affect what we know and don\u2019t know about Sir John A? How can we use the papers of dead famous people to study the histories of those who haven\u2019t had their materials as readily preserved? Does the digitization of collections change how we think about history?&nbsp; Sarah will take up all these questions and more as she embarks on her own archival odyssey.&nbsp; Her work this summer will culminate in a research essay on the agency of family members in the Sir John A. MacDonald papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow Sarah Cole\u2019s blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/adventuresinthearchive.wordpress.com\/\">adventuresinthearchive.wordpress.com<\/a> and look for new updates every Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations are in order for English and History major Sarah Cole, recipient of a Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Undergraduate Summer Research Internship!&nbsp; Sarah received the internship for her project on the Sir John A. Macdonald papers which are housed in Library and Archives Canada, here in Ottawa. 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