The Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections seeks a graduate student intern for Summer 2011. As a regional history manuscript collection, the Michigan Tech Archives collects material which documents the history of the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan’s Western Upper Peninsula, including its historic copper mining industry. The intern selected will receive substantive . . .
A number of students from the Western Upper Peninsula were selected as national finalists at the Michigan History Day state finals held April 30 at Grand Valley State University. These students participated in the local District 1 competition held February 26 in Houghton, which was sponsored by the Michigan Tech Social Sciences Department, the Michigan Tech Archives . . .
The Michigan Tech Archives continues to serve as coordinating agency for the Northland Historical Consortium, and is pleased to announce that the Consortium and the Heritage Sites of Keweenaw National Historical Park will convene a joint spring 2011 meeting on Saturday, May 14, 2011, in Houghton. The meeting will feature a day-long workshop entitled “Interpretation . . .
A travelling exhibit from the Michigan Tech Archives is currently installed in the Hancock School Public Library, located in the Hancock High School complex in Hancock, Michigan. “People, Place and Time: Michigan’s Copper Country Through the Lens of J.W. Nara,” explores the life and times of Calumet photographer J.W. Nara and is open to the public . . .
The Michigan Tech Archives invites students, faculty and staff to join us for a Lunch and Learn on March 22, from noon to 1 p.m. at the Memorial Union Ballroom B-3. Visiting scholar and Archives Travel Grant recipient Ibram H. Rogers will give a talk on “The Black Campus Movement and the Racial Reformation of . . .
The library at Houghton High School is the latest venue to host “People, Place and Time: Michigan’s Copper Country Through the Lens of J.W. Nara,” a traveling exhibit created by the Michigan Tech Archives. The exhibit explores the life and times of Calumet photographer J.W. Nara and is open to the public through March 18, 2011 during . . .
History came alive for more than 90 students in grades 4 through 12 as they participated in the District 1 regional competition for National History Day. The event took place Saturday, February 26, 2011 at the Memorial Union Building on the Michigan Tech campus. Although judging of the exhibits took place behind closed doors, the public was invited . . .
Dr. Bruce E. Seely, Dean of the College of Sciences and Arts at Michigan Tech, will give an invited presentation at 4:00pm on Wednesday, February 23, in the East Reading Room of the J.R. Van Pelt and Opie Library on the Michigan Tech campus. Seely’s presentation, “Research and the Historian’s Craft: Excursions from the Archives . . .
As part of our on-going NHPRC grant to uncover “hidden” collections, the following register represents collections newly accessible through OCLC’s WorldCat and Michigan Tech’s OPAC, WebVoyage. For a full list of cataloged collections, check out our Collection Registers page. For further information please visit us in the garden level of the J.R. Van Pelt and . . .
Have you ever wondered how to start a historical research project? Not sure where to find the right documents to answer your question? Unclear how a research archives operates? Join Julie Blair and Erik Nordberg, archivists from Michigan Tech, and Jeremiah Mason, archivist at Keweenaw National Historical Park, for an introduction to archival research at . . .