Acknowledgements ............................................... ix
INTRODUCTION .................................................... I
SECTION 1. CLAIMING GROUND ..................................... 11
1 Panel Organized by James J. Murphy, [Octalog I:] The
Politics of Historiography (1988) ........................... 13
2 Robert J. Connors, Dreams and Play: Historical Method and
Methodology (1992) .......................................... 50
3 Cheryl Glenn, Remapping Rhetorical Territory (1995) ......... 63
4 Jacqueline Jones Royster, When the First Voice You Hear is
Not Your Own (1996) ......................................... 78
SECTION 2. ACCESSING THE ARCHIVES .............................. 89
5 Panel Organized by Richard Leo Enos, Octalog II: The
(Continuing) Politics of Historiography (1997) .............. 91
6 Linda Ferreira-Buckley, Rescuing the Archives from
Foucault (1999) ............................................ 111
7 Richard Leo Enos, Recovering the Lost Art of Researching
the History of Rhetoric (1999) ............................. 117
8 Hui Wu, Historical Studies of Rhetorical Women Here and
There: Methodological Challenges to Dominant Interpretive
Frameworks (2002) .......................................... 130
9 Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser, The WPA as Researcher
and Archivist (2002) ....................................... 145
10 Barbara A. Biesecker, Of Historicity, Rhetoric:
The Archive as Scene of Invention (2006) ................... 156
SECTION 3. DOING ARCHIVAL RESEARCH ............................ 163
11 Elizabeth (Betsy) Birmingham, "I See Dead People":
Archive,
Crypt, and an Argument for the Researcher's Sixth Sense
(2008) ..................................................... 165
12 Barbara E. L'Eplattenier, An Argument for Archival
Research Methods: Thinking Beyond Methodology (2009) ....... 171
13 Cheryl Glenn and Jessica Enoch, Drama in the Archives:
Rereading Methods, Rewriting History (2009) ................ 183
14 Sammie L. Morris and Shirley K. Rose, Invisible Hands:
Recognizing Archivists' Work to Make Records Accessible
(2010) ..................................................... 200
15 Tarez Samra Graban, Emergent Taxonomies: Using Tension
and Forum to Organize Primary Texts (2010) ................. 218
SECTION 4. RETHINKING THE ARCHIVES ............................ 231
16 Panel Organized by Lois Agnew, Laurie Gries, and Zosha
Stuckey, Octalog III: The Politics of Historiography
in 2010 (2011) ............................................. 233
17 Jonathan Buehl, Tamar Chute, and Anne Fields, Training
in the Archives: Archival Research as Professional
Development (2012) ......................................... 256
18 Kelly Ritter, Archival Research in Composition Studies:
Re-Imagining the Historian's Role (2012) ................... 280
19 Lynée Lewis Gaillet, (Per)Forming Archival Research
Methodologies (2012) ....................................... 295
Index ......................................................... 313
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