Acknowledgements

Introduction

Section 1: Claiming Ground

1. Panel Organized by James J. Murphy, [Octalog I:] The Politics of Historiography (1988)

2. Robert J. Connors, Dreams and Play: Historical Method and Methodology (1992)

3. Cheryl Glenn, Remapping Rhetorical Territory (1995)

4. Jacqueline Jones Royster, When the First Voice You Hear is Not Your Own (1996)

Section 2: Accessing the Archives

5. Panel Organized by Richard Leo Enos, Octalog II: The (Continuing) Politics of Historiography (1997)

6. Linda Ferreira-Buckley, Rescuing the Archives from Foucault (1999)

7. Richard Leo Enos, Recovering the Lost Art of Researching the History of Rhetoric (1999)

8. Hui Wu, Historical Studies of Rhetorical Women Here and There: Methodological Challenges to Dominant Frameworks (2002)

9. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser, The WPA as Researcher and Archivist (2002)

10. Barbara A Biesecker, Of Historicity, Rhetoric: The Archive as Scene of Invention (2006)

Section 3: Doing Archival Research

11. Elizabeth (Betsy) Birmingham, "I See Dead People": Archive, Crypt, and an Argument for the Researcher’s Sixth Sense (2008)

12. Barbara E. L'Eplattenier, An Argument for Archival Research Methods: Thinking Beyond Methodology (2009)

13. Cheryl Glenn and Jessica Enoch, Drama in the Archives: Rereading Methods, Rewriting History (2009)

14. Sammie L. Morris and Shirley K. Rose, Viewing the Archives: The Hidden and the Digital (2010)

15. Tarez Samra Graban, Emergent Taxonomies: Using Tension and Forum to Organize Primary Texts (2010)

Section 4: Rethinking the Archives

16. Panel Organized by Lois Agnew, Laurie Gries, and Zosha Stuckey, Octalog III: The Politics of Historiography in 2010 (2011)

17. Jonathan Buehl, Tamar Chute, and Anne Fields, Training in the Archives: Archival Research as Professional Development (2012)

18. Kelly Ritter, Archival Research in Composition Studies: Re-Imagining the Historian's Role (2012)

19. Lynee Lewis Gaillet, (Per)Forming Archival Research Methodologies (2012)

Index