Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Lester J. Cappon and the Relationship of History, Archives, and Scholarship in the Golden Age of Archival Theory
Archival Theory
1. Historical Manuscripts as Archives: Some Definitions and Their Application
2. Tardy Scholars Among the Archivists
3. What, Then, Is There to Theorize About?
Archival Collecting
4. Walter R. Benjamin and the Autograph Trade at the Turn of the Century
5. The Archivist as Collector Originally
6. Why Presidential Libraries?
Archivists and Historians
7. The Archival Profession and the Society of American Archivists
8. The National Archives and the Historical Profession
Archivists and Documentary Editors
9. The Historian as Editor
10. A Rationale for Historical Editing:Past and Present
11. American Historical Editors Before Jared Sparks: “they will plant a forest . . .”*
12. Jared Sparks: The Preparation of an Editor
Notes
Index