Alea Henle is associate librarian and head of the access and borrow department at Miami University Libraries.

Rescued from Oblivion is abundant with the kind of details that make for stimulating history, with interesting personalities, decisions with lasting consequences, and the restoration to the historical record of women and others who have previously been neglected." —Robert B. Townsend, author of History's Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880–1940"In this richly layered study of archival history, Henle highlights not only the prejudices and priorities that members of early historical societies brought to their work but the various ways those prejudices and priorities were challenged by other historical actors." —Elizabeth Yale, author of Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain

• Prologue 1. ""The lumber yard of history"": The Organization, Progress, Successes, and Failures of Historical Societies 2. ""So divided and subdivided"": Preserving Local Histories and Government Records 3. Defining History: Historical Society Collection Priorities 4. ""Disjointed fragments"": Materials as History v. Materials For History 5. ""Less repulsive to the general reader"": Popular History in Historical Societies6. ""[A]n oblivious society"": Inclusion, Exclusion, and Omission in Historical Society Collections Appendices

Alea Henle is associate librarian and head of the access and borrow department at Miami University Libraries.

Rescued from Oblivion is abundant with the kind of details that make for stimulating history, with interesting personalities, decisions with lasting consequences, and the restoration to the historical record of women and others who have previously been neglected." —Robert B. Townsend, author of History's Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880–1940"In this richly layered study of archival history, Henle highlights not only the prejudices and priorities that members of early historical societies brought to their work but the various ways those prejudices and priorities were challenged by other historical actors." —Elizabeth Yale, author of Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain

• Prologue 1. ""The lumber yard of history"": The Organization, Progress, Successes, and Failures of Historical Societies 2. ""So divided and subdivided"": Preserving Local Histories and Government Records 3. Defining History: Historical Society Collection Priorities 4. ""Disjointed fragments"": Materials as History v. Materials For History 5. ""Less repulsive to the general reader"": Popular History in Historical Societies6. ""[A]n oblivious society"": Inclusion, Exclusion, and Omission in Historical Society Collections Appendices

Alea Henle is associate librarian and head of the access and borrow department at Miami University Libraries.

Rescued from Oblivion is abundant with the kind of details that make for stimulating history, with interesting personalities, decisions with lasting consequences, and the restoration to the historical record of women and others who have previously been neglected." —Robert B. Townsend, author of History's Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880–1940"In this richly layered study of archival history, Henle highlights not only the prejudices and priorities that members of early historical societies brought to their work but the various ways those prejudices and priorities were challenged by other historical actors." —Elizabeth Yale, author of Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain

• Prologue 1. ""The lumber yard of history"": The Organization, Progress, Successes, and Failures of Historical Societies 2. ""So divided and subdivided"": Preserving Local Histories and Government Records 3. Defining History: Historical Society Collection Priorities 4. ""Disjointed fragments"": Materials as History v. Materials For History 5. ""Less repulsive to the general reader"": Popular History in Historical Societies6. ""[A]n oblivious society"": Inclusion, Exclusion, and Omission in Historical Society Collections Appendices