In memory of the pre-pandemic world, when historians were still able to conduct archival research, I created a checklist based on my own experience.

In memory of the pre-pandemic world, when historians were still able to conduct archival research, I created a checklist based on my own experience.
Now that I’m pursuing a doctoral degree in the highly interdisciplinary field of environmental history, I have come to embrace new research methods.
From Boston to Philadelphia, in late 1783 diarists wrote about an earthquake that awoke them late at night, rattled windows, and threw china off the shelves.