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Daily Archives: October 20, 2016

Finding Place in the Archives: What River Running & Research Taught This Historian

Erstwhile’s Sara Porterfield reflects on a summer spent researching the rivers she knows well and the valuable role personal experience plays in academic study.   This year marked the first summer in over a decade that I did not spend days and nights floating on and sleeping next to the rivers of the Colorado River Basin. I…

October 20, 2016 in All Posts, Historical Research.

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