Tag: Archival collections
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The World of Nadar … at your fingertips
Research collections are not usually my favorite collections to process … I recognize their usefulness; but I miss the personal components that allow me to get to know the creator and the worlds in which they lived. The Thomas Waldman research collection on Nadar, however, is amazing … it is a French intellectual history class…
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Japanese Soldiers and Civilians during the Second Sino-Japanese War
In 1937, the Empire of Japan invaded the Republic of China, setting off the Second Sino-Japanese War. This conflict–later a part of the much larger Pacific War, the Asian theater of World War II–was the result of many years of Japanese imperialist expansion into Chinese territory, which was fragmented and under the control of various…