In case you missed this post about the Barnard children’s letters, stop by the RBML’s cube case exhibit of select materials. How to tame an opossum…and other childhood preoccupations through the Barnard children’s letters The RBML is located on the 6th floor of Butler Library in Columbia University’s Morningside campus. […]
Tag: Civil War
How to tame an opossum…and other childhood preoccupations through the Barnard children’s letters
Processing collections according to updated archival standards gives RBML archivists the opportunity to discover anew our collections. In this post, Processing Archivist Celeste Brewer offers us insights into the practice of children writing letters during the Civil War-era. Historians typically foreground the writings and papers of “Great Men,” but as Celeste notes, paying attention to […]