The Mid-Atlantic Archivist, the quarterly newsletter of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC), featured Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917-1945, as the cover story of its Spring 2023 issue. MARAC recently awarded Allison Finkelstein the Arline Custer Memorial Award for best book.
In the article, titled “Our Service to the Living: An Interview with Historian Allison Finkelstein,” author Tyler Stump, 2023 Arline Custer Memorial Award Co-Chair, highlights the importance of archival research to the process of researching and publishing this book. His insightful questions from the perspective of an archivist emphasize the essential role that archives and archivists play in the publication of new works of history.
Read the article here.