As this site continues to grow, we aim to provide a continuously updated bibliography - entries of texts and resources devoted to archival work.
Archives Lists
Archives From RSA Members
- Online via Ohio State and Georgia State (Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives)
- Penn State (Kenneth Burke, Tom Benson papers)
- University of Utah and the NCA/Speech Association of America archives
- University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School and the Int'l Comm Assoc papers
- University of Chicago and the Wayne Booth and Richard McKeon papers
- Purdue (Jim Berlin and Janice Lauer papers; Susan Bulkeley Butler Women’s Archives)
- Iowa (Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry Archives (POROI); papers of A. Craig Baird, Donald Bryant, Sam Becker, Donovan Ochs)
- Illinois (Marie Hochmuth Nichols papers; part of the Karl Wallace paper)
- Dartmouth and the history of the Dartmouth Seminar
- University of Massachusetts Boston (Ann Berthoff papers)
- U Mass Amerherst (National Debate Tournament papers, Karl Wallace papers, W. E. B. Du Bois Papers)
- U of New Hampshire and Rhode Island (The National Archives of Composition and Rhetoric)
- Texas Christian University (The Rhetoric and Composition Sound Archives)
- UC Irvine (Steven Mailloux's papers)
- University of Toronto (McLuhan papers and personal library)
- University of Michigan (Gayle Morris Sweetland Center for Writing, Fred Newton Scott)
- University of Arkansas Little Rock (Writing Centers Research Project)
- Loyola Chicago (OSCLG: Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, & Gender)
- Penn State (Kenneth Burke, Tom Benson papers)
- University of Utah and the NCA/Speech Association of America archives
- University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School and the Int'l Comm Assoc papers
- Purdue (Jim Berlin and Janice Lauer papers; Susan Bulkeley Butler Women’s Archives)
- Iowa (Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry Archives (POROI); papers of A. Craig Baird, Donald Bryant, Sam Becker, Donovan Ochs)
- Illinois (Marie Hochmuth Nichols papers; part of the Karl Wallace paper)
- Dartmouth and the history of the Dartmouth Seminar?
- University of Massachusetts Boston (Ann Berthoff papers)
- U Mass Amerherst (National Debate Tournament papers, Karl Wallace papers)
David Beard’s Archives in Rhetoric List (https://www.academia.edu/4823883/List_of_Archives_in_Rhetoric_for_ARS_)
- Joseph Priestley Collection at Penn State
- I.A. Richards at Magdalene College, Cambridge UK
- American Association of University Professors (AAUP) at George Washington University
- American Forensics Association at the University of Utah
- Critical Theory Archive at University of California Irvine
- National Archives of Composition and Rhetoric
- Rocky Mountain MLA (RMMLA) at Washington State University
- South Central MLA (SCMLA) at the University of Oklahoma
- Speech Communication Association at the University of Utah
- Western Speech Communication Association at the University of Utah
- Writing Centers Research Project & Writing Center Journal at University of Louisville
- National Council for the Teachers of English (NCTE) at the University of Illinois
Additional Archives (CCCCs 2023 Archiving for Life Workshop) Feel free to add to this list!
- Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the HIstory of Rhetoric & Composition Archive: https://cfshrc.org/history/#archives
- Conference on Basic Writing Archives: https://wac.colostate.edu/comppile/archives/cbw-archives/
- Comp Pile https://wac.colostate.edu/comppile/
- First-Year Composition Archive: https://fyca.colostate.edu/
- RhetCompUTX: a digital exhibit of primary-source items documenting the history of writing instruction at the University of Texas at Austin: http://rhetcomputx.dwrl.utexas.edu/s/DRW/page/DRW
- WAC Program Archives: https://wac.colostate.edu/repository/crowdsource/program-archives/
Archival Bibliography in Rhetoric & Composition
Monographs & Collections
- Giorgio Agamben. The Witness and the Archives. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2010.
- Janet Atwill. Contingencies of Historical Representation. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.
- Anderson, Dana and Jessica Enoch. Burke in the Archives: Using the Past to Transform the Future of Burkean Studies. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013.
- Baliff, Michelle. Theorizing Histories of Rhetoric. Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.
- Jean Bessette. Retroactivism in the Lesbian Archives: Composing Pasts and Futures. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2017.
- Ernst Breisach. Classical Rhetoric and Medieval Historiography. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1985.
- Brereton, John C. The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875-1925. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995.
- Antoinette M. Burton. Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 2005.
- Sharon Crowley. The Methodical Memory: Invention in Current-Traditional Rhetoric. Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990.
- Jacques Derrida. Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
- Patricia Donahue and Gretchen Flesher Moon. Local Histories: Reading the Archives of Composition. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. Print.
- Jean Ferguson. Archives of Instruction: Nineteenth-Century Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the United States. Carbondale, Southern Illinois Press, 2005.
- Carlo Ginzburg. Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1989.
- ---. Threads and Traces: True False Fictive. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
- ---. History, Rhetoric, Proof. Brandeis University Press, 1999.
- Cheryl Glenn. Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 1997.
- Cheryl Glenn and Roxanne Mountford. Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the New Century: Historiography, Pedagogy, and Politics. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 2017.
- Maureen Daly Goggin. Authoring a Discipline: Scholarly Journals and the Post-World War II Emergence of Rhetoric and Composition. Mahwah, N.J: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000.
- David Gold and Catherine Hobbs. Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education: American Women Learn to Speak. New York: Routledge, 2013.
- David Gold. Rhetoric at the Margins: Revising the History of Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1873-1947. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.
- Tarez Graban and Wendy Hayden, Eds. Teaching Through the Archives: Text, Collaboration and Activism. SIU Press, 2022.
- Sarah Hallenbeck. Claiming the Bicycle: Women, Rhetoric, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 2015.
- Brent Henze, Jack Selzer, and Wendy Sharer. 1977: A Cultural Moment in Composition. West Lafayette, Ind: Parlor Press, 2007.
- Susan Jarratt. “New Dispositions for Historical Studies in Rhetoric.” In Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work. Ed. Gary Olson. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.
- Steve Lamos. Interests and Opportunities: Race, Racism, and University Writing Instruction in the Post-Civil Rights Era. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.
- Susan Kates. Activist Rhetorics and American Higher Education, 1885-1937. Carbondale, Southern Illinois Press, 2001.
- Gisa Kirsch and Liz Rohan. Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 2008.
- Gesa Kirsch. Women Writing the Academy: Audience, Authority, and Transformation. Carbondale: SIU Press, 1990.
- Barbara L’Eplattenier & Lisa Mastrangelo, (Eds.). Historical studies of writing program administration: Individuals, communities, and the formation of a discipline. Parlor Press, 2004.
- Carmen Kynard. Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies. SUNY Press, 2014.
- Thomas Masters. Practicing Writing: The Postwar Discourse of Freshman English. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004.
- Bruce McComiskey. Microhistories of Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2016.
- Thomas P. Miller. The Formation of College English: Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the British Cultural Provinces. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.
- ---. The Evolution of College English: Literary Studies from the Puritans to the Postmoderns. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.
- James J. Murphy. A Short History of Writing Instruction. New York: Hermagoras Press, 1990.
- Jason Palmeri. Remixing Composition: A History of Multimodal Writing Pedagogy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.
- Alexis E. Ramsey, Wendy B. Sharer, Barbara L’Eplattenier, and Lisa Mastrangelo. Working in the Archives: Practical Research Methods for Rhetoric and Composition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 2009. Print.
- Kelly Ritter. Before Shaughnessy: Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009.
- ---. To Know Her Own History: Writing at the Woman’s College, 1943-1963. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
- Iris Ruiz. Reclaiming Composition for Chicano/as and Other Ethnic Minorities: A Critical History and Pedagogy. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Ryan Skinnell. Conceding Composition: A Crooked History of Composition's Institutional Fortunes. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2016.
- Carolyn Steedman. Dust: The Archive and Cultural History. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
- Victor J. Vitanza. Negation, Subjectivity, and the History of Rhetoric. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.
- ---, ed. Writing Histories of Rhetoric. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.
Articles & Chapters
- Lois Agnew, Laurie Gries, et al. “Octalog III: The Politics of Historiography in 2010.” Rhetoric Review 30.2 (2011): 109-134.
- Lois Agnew, James J. Murphy, et al. “Rhetorical Historiography and the Octalogs.” Rhetoric Review 30.3 (2011): 237-257.
- Jennifer Ansley. “Queering Ethos: Interrogating Archives in the First Year Writing Classroom.” Composition Studies 48.3, 2020, pp. 16 - 34. https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/ansley_48.3.pdf
- Lisa R. Arnold. “‘The Worst Part of the Dead Past’: Language Attitudes, Policies, and Pedagogies at Syrian Protestant College, 1866-1902.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 66, no. 2, 2014, pp. 276–300.
- Michelle Baliff. “Writing the Event: The Impossible Possibility for Historiography.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 44.3 (2014): 243-255.
- Jason Barrett-Fox. “Posthuman Feminism and the Rhetoric of Silent Cinema: Distributed Agency, Ontic Media, and the Possibility of a Networked Historiography.” Quarterly Journal of Speech. 102.3 (2016): 245-263.
- ---. “Rhetorics of Indirection, Indiscretion, Insurrection: The ‘Feminine Style’ of Anita Loos, 1912- 1925.” JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, & Politics. 32.1-2 (2012): 221-249.
- Randy Bass. “Story and Archive in the Twenty-First Century.” College English 61.6 (1999): 659- 670.
- James Berlin. “Panelists’ Statement: The Politics of History.” Rhetoric Review 7.1 (1988): 6.
- Jean Bessette. “An Archive of Anecdotes: Raising Lesbian Consciousness after the Daughters of Bilitis.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 43.1 (2013): 22-45.
- Barbara A. Biesecker. “Of Historicity, Rhetoric: The Archive as Scene of Invention.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 9.1 (2008): 124-131.
- Patricia Bizzel. “Rationality as Rhetorical Strategy at the Barcelona Disputation, 1263: A Cautionary Tale.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 58, no. 1, 2006, pp. 12– 29.
- Elizabeth H. Boquet. “‘Our Little Secret’: A History of Writing Centers, Pre- to Post-Open Admissions.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 50, no. 3, 1999, pp. 463– 482.
- Suzanne Bordelon.“Muted Rhetors and the Mundane: The Case of Ruth Mary Weeks, Rewey Belle Inglis, and W. Wilbur Hatfield.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 64, no. 2, 2012, pp. 332–356.
- ---. “Composing Women's Civic Identities during the Progressive Era:College Commencement Addresses as Overlooked Rhetorical Sites.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 61, no. 3, 2010, pp. 510–533.
- Rebecca Brittenham. “What Should Revisionist History Look Like?” JAC 21.4 (2001): 857-862.
- Kevin Brooks. “Reviewing and Redescribing ‘The Politics of Historiography.” Rhetoric Review 16.1 (1997): 6-21.
- Brereton, John C. "Rethinking our Archive: A Beginning." College English 61.5 (1999): 574-6.
- Jonathan Buehl, Tamar Chute, and Anne Fields. “Training in the Archives: Archival Research as Professional Development.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 64, no. 2, 2012, pp. 274–305.
- JoAnn Campbell. “Controlling Voices: The Legacy of English A at Radcliffe College 1883-1917.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 43, no. 4, 1992, pp. 472–485.
- Shannon Carter and James H. Conrad. "In Possession of Community: Toward a More Sustainable Local." College Composition and Communication 64.1 (2012): 82-106.
- Robert J. Connors. “Rhetorical History as a Component of Composition Studies.” Rhetoric Review 7.2 (1989): 230-240.
- Sharon Crowley. “Histories of Pedagogy, English Studies, and Composition.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 49, no. 1, 1998, pp. 109–114.
- Ellen Cushman. “Wampum, Sequoyan, and Story: Decolonizing the Digital Archive.” College English, vol. 76, no. 2, 2013, pp. 115–135.
- Kelly L. Dent and Shannon Carter. "East Texas Activism (1966-68): Locating the Literacy Scene through the Digital Humanities." College English 76.2 (2013): 152-171.
- Jessica Enoch. “A Woman’s Place Is in the School: Rhetorics of Gendered Space in Nineteenth- Century America.” College English 70.3 (2008): 275-295.
- ---. “Finding New Spaces for Rhetorical Research.” In “Octalog III: The Politics of Historiography in 2010.” Rhetoric Review 30.2 (2011): 115-117.
- ---. "What is College English? Some Reflections." College English 76.3 (2014): 269.
- ---. "Feminist Rhetorical Studies-Past, Present, Future: An Interview with Cheryl Glenn." Composition Forum, vol. 29, 2014. http://compositionforum.com/issue/29/cheryl-glenn- interview.php
- Jessica Enoch and Jean Bessette. “Meaningful Engagements:Feminist Historiography and the Digital Humanities.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 64, no. 4, 2013, pp. 634–660.
- Jessica Enoch and David Gold. “Introduction: Seizing the Methodological Moment: The Digital Humanities and Historiography in Rhetoric and Composition.” College English, vol. 76, no. 2, 2013, pp. 105–114.
- Jessica Enoch and Jordynn Jack. “Remembering Sappho: New Perspectives on Teaching (and Writing) Women's Rhetorical History.” College English, vol. 73, no. 5, 2011, pp. 518– 537.
- Richard Lee Enos, Janet Atwill, et al. "Octalog II: The (continuing) politics of historiography (Dedicated to the memory of James A. Berlin)." Rhetoric Review, vol. 16, no. 1, 1997, pp. 22-44.
- Linda Ferreira-Buckley. “Rescuing the Archives from Foucault.” College English 61.5 (1999): 577 -583.
- ---. “Linda Ferreira-Buckley Responds.” College English, vol. 62, no. 4, 2000, pp. 528–530.
- Lynee Lewis Gaillet and Thomas P. Miller. “Making Use of the Nineteenth-Century: The Writing of Robert Connors and Recent Histories of Rhetoric and Composition.” Rhetoric Review 20.1-2 (2001): 147-157.
- Lynee Lewis Gaillet. “(Per)Forming Archival Research Methodologies.” College Composition and Communication 64.1 (2012): 35-58.
- Chris Gallagher. “Once More unto the Historiographic Breach: A Response to Rebecca Brittenham.” JAC 21.4 (2001): 841-850.
- Cinthia Gannett, Elizabeth Slomba, Kate Tirabassi, Amy Zenger, and John C. Brereton. “It Might Come in Handy. Composing a Writing Archive at the University of New Hampshire: A Collaboration between the Diamond Library and the Writing Across the Curriculum/Connors Writing Center, 2001-2003.” in Centers for Learning: Writing Centers and Libraries in Collaboration. Chicago: James K. Elmborg, and Sheril Hook, eds. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2005. 115-37.
- Cheryl Glenn. “Silence: A Rhetorical Art for Resisting Discipline(s).” JAC 22.2 (2002): 261-291.
- ---. “Remapping Rhetorical Territory.” Rhetoric Review 13.2 (1995): 287-303.
- ---. “Sex, Lies, and Manuscript: Refiguring Aspasia in the History of Rhetoric.” College Composition and Communication 45.2 (1994): 180-199.
- ---. “Truth, Lies, and Method: Revisiting Feminist Historiography.” College English 62.3 (2000): 387-389.
- ---. "Comment: Truth, Lies, and Method: Revisiting Feminist Historiography: Document View." College English, vol. 62, no. 3, 2000, pp. 387.
- Cheryl Glenn and Jessica Enoch. “Drama in the Archives: Rereading Methods, Rewriting History.” College Composition and Communications 61.2 (2009): 321-342.
- David Gold. “’Where Brains Had a Chance’: William Mayo and Rhetorical Instruction at East Texas Normal College, 1889-1917.” College English 67.3 (2005): 311-330.
- ---. “’Nothing Educates Us like a Shock’: The Integrated Rhetoric of Melvin B. Tolson.” College Composition and Communication 55.2 (2003): 226-253.
- ---. “Beyond the Classroom Walls: Student Writing at Texas Woman’s University, 1901-1939.” Rhetoric Review 22.3 (2003): 264-281.
- ---. “Eve Did No Wrong’: Effective Literacy at a Public College for Women [Excerpt].” College Composition and Communication 61.2 (2009): 375.
- ---. “Students Writing Race at Southern Public Women’s Colleges, 1884-1945.” History of Education Quarterly 50.2 (2010): 182-203.
- ---. “Remapping Revisionist Historiography.” College Composition and Communications 64.1 (Sept. 2012): 15-34.
- Tarez Samra Graben, “From Location(s) to Locatability: Mapping Feminist Recovery and Archival Activity through Metadata.” College English 76.2 (Nov., 2013): 171-193.
- Jane Greer. “‘No Smiling Madonna’: Marian Wharton and the Struggle to Construct a Critical Pedagogy for the Working Class, 1914-1917.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 51, no. 2, 1999, pp. 248–271.
- Susan Gubar. “Our Brilliant Career: Women in English 1973-2010.” College English 76.1 (Sept. 2013): 12-28.
- Sarah Hallenbeck. "Inventing Feminine Ingenuity: The Gendered Tropes of Space, Motive, Training, and Scope." Rhetoric Review, vol. 37, no. 3, 2018, pp. 259-272.
- ---. "User Agency, Technical Communication, and the 19th-Century Woman Bicyclist." Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, 2012, pp. 290-306.
- ---. "Toward a Posthuman Perspective: Feminist Rhetorical Methodologies and Everyday Practices." Advances in the History of Rhetoric, vol. 15, no. 1, 2012, pp. 9-27.
- ---. "Riding Out of Bounds: Women Bicyclists' Embodied Medical Authority." Rhetoric Review, vol. 29, no. 4, 2010, pp. 327-345.
- Debra Hawhee. “Regarding History.” College Composition and Communication 51.4 (2000): 654-662.
- ---. "The New Hackers: Historiography through Disconnection." Advances in the History of Rhetoric, vol. 15, no. 1, 2012, pp. 119-125.
- Wendy Hayden. “And Gladly Teach: The Archival Turn’s Pedagogical Turn.” College English 80.2 November 2017, pp. 133-58.
- Jeffrey L. Hoogeveen. “A Comment on ‘Rescuing the Archives from Foucault.’” College English, vol. 62, no. 4, 2000, pp. 524–528.
- Susan Kates. “Literacy, Voting Rights, and the Citizenship Schools in the South, 1957-1970.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 57, no. 3, 2006, pp. 479–502.
- ---. “Subversive Feminism: The Politics of Correctness in Mary Augusta Jordan's Correct Writing and Speaking (1904).” College Composition and Communication, vol. 48, no. 4, 1997, pp. 501–517.
- Barbara L’Eplattenier. “An Argument for Archival Research Methods: Thinking Beyond Methodology.” College English 72.1 (2009): 67-79.
- L. Jill Lamberton. “‘A Revelation and a Delight’: Nineteenth-Century Cambridge Women, Academic Collaboration, and the Cultural Work of Extracurricular Writing.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 65, no. 4, 2014, pp. 560–587.
- Steve Lamos. "'What's in a Name?': Institutional Critique, Writing Program Archives, and the Problem of Administrator Identity." College English 71.4 (2009): 389.
- ---. "Literacy Crisis and Color-Blindness: The Problematic Racial Dynamics of Mid-1970s Language and Literacy Instruction for 'High-Risk' Minority Students." College Composition and Communication, vol. 61, no. 2, 2009, pp. 373.
- Neal Lerner. “Rejecting the Remedial Brand: The Rise and Fall of the Dartmouth Writing Clinic.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 59, no. 1, 2007, pp. 13–35.
- Emily Legg. “Daughters of the Seminaries: Re-Landscaping History through the Composition Courses at the Cherokee National Female Seminary.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 66, no. 1, 2014, pp. 67–90.
- Mark Garrett Longaker, Nathan Kreuter, Stephen Dadugblor, Hannah Folz, Tristin Hooker, Martha Sue Karnes, Bethany Radcliffe, Kevin Schaeffner, & Kiara Walker. “Archiving our Own: The Digital Archive of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Texas at Austin, 1975-1995.” CCC vol. 72 no. 4, pp. 774-805.
- Andrea A. Lunsford. “Essay Writing and Teachers' Responses in Nineteenth-Century Scottish Universities.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 32, no. 4, 1981, pp. 434– 443.
- Lisa Mastrangelo. “Listening in the Silences for Fred Newton Scott.” Composition Studies 37.1 (2009): 9- 28.
- ---. “Learning from the Past: Rhetoric, Composition, and Debate at Mount Holyoke College.” Rhetoric Review 18.1 (1999): 46-64.
- ---. “Lone Wolf or Leader of the Pack?: Rethinking the Grand Narrative of Fred Newton Scott.” College English, vol. 72, no. 3, 2010, pp. 248–268.
- ---. “Building a Dinosaur from the Bones: Fred Newton Scott and Women’s Progressive Era Graduate Work at the University of Michigan.” Rhetoric Review 24.4 (2005): 403-420.
- Carol Mattingly. “Uncovering Forgotten Habits: Anti-Catholic Rhetoric and Nineteenth-Century American Women's Literacy.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 58, no. 2, 2006, pp. 160–181.
- Heidi A.McKee and James E. Porter. “The Ethics of Archival Research.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 64, no. 1, 2012, pp. 59–81.
- Chelsea R. Milbourne and Sarah Hallenback. "Gender, Material Chronotopes, and the Emergence of the Eighteenth-Century Microscope." Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 5, 2013, pp. 401-424.
- Libby Miles. “Rhetorical Work: Social Materiality, Kairos, and Changing the Terms.” JAC 27.3-4 (2006): 743-758.
- Richard E. Miller. “Composing English Studies: Towards a Social History of the Discipline.” College Composition and Communications 45.2 (1994): 164-179.
- Susan Miller. “Things Inanimate May Move: A Different History of Writing and Class.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 45, no. 1, 1994, pp. 102–107.
- Thomas P. Miller and Melody Bowdon. “A Rhetorical Stance on the Archives of Civic Action.” College English, vol. 61, no. 5, 1999, pp. 591–598.
- M. Amanda Moulder. “Cherokee Practice, Missionary Intentions: Literacy Learning among Early Nineteenth-Century Cherokee Women.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 63, no. 1, 2011, pp. 75–97.
- Charles E. Morris. “The Archival Turn in Rhetorical Studies: Or, the Archive’s Rhetorical (Re)Turn.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 9.1 (2006): 113-115.
- ---. “Archival Queer.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 9.1 (2006): 145-151.
- Roxanne Mountford. “Mentoring Rhetoric’s Historians.” Advances in the History of Rhetoric 15.1 (2012): 101-108.
- James J. Murphy. “Prologue: The Politics of History.” Rhetoric Review 7.1 (1988): 5-6.
- Melissa Nivens. "Farm to Table: The Home Management House as Rhetorical Space for Rural Women." Peitho 19.2 (2017): 282-300.
- Kyle Oddis, Avery Blankenship, Brice Lanham, and Neal Lerner. “Possibilities for a Public-Facing Digital Writing Program Archive in the Age of Analytics” Journal of Writing Analytics, Volume 4, 2020. DOI: 10.37514/JWA-J.2020.4.1.07
- Ostergaard, Lori. (review) "Rhetoric in the Archives: Histories of Women Physicians, Literacy Educators, and Students." College English, vol. 78, no. 1, 2015, pp. 81-97.
- Carol Poster. “The Case of the Purloined Letter-Manuals: Archival Issues in Ancient Epistolary Theory.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 27, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1–19.
- M. Karen Powers and Catherine Chaput. “‘Anti-American Studies’ in the Deep South: Dissenting Rhetorics, the Practice of Democracy, and Academic Freedom in Wartime Universities.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 58, no. 4, 2007, pp. 648–681.
- Jim Ridolfo. “Delivering Textual Diaspora: Building Digital Cultural Repositories as Rhetoric Research.” College English, vol. 76, no. 2, 2013, pp. 136–151.
- Kelly Ritter. “’What Would Happen if Everybody Behaved as I Do?’: May Bush, Randall Jarrell, and the Historical ‘Disappointment’ of Women WPAs.” Composition Studies 39.1 (2011): 13-39.
- ---. “Before Mina Shaughnessy: Basic Writing at Yale, 1920-1960.” College Composition and Communications 60.1 (2008): 12-45.
- ---. “Archival Research in Composition Studies: Reimagining the Historian’s Role.” Rhetoric Review 31.4 (2012): 461-478.
- ---. “Archival Research in Composition Studies: Re-Imaging the Historian’s Role.” Rhetoric Review 31.4 (2012): 461-478.
- ---. “‘Ladies Who Don't Know Us Correct Our Papers’: Postwar Lay Reader Programs and Twenty-First Century Contingent Labor in First-Year Writing.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 63, no. 3, 2012, pp. 387–419.
- Courtney Rivard “Turning Archives into Data: Archival Rhetorics and Digital Literacy in the Composition Classroom.” College Composition and Communication col. 70, no. 4, 2019, pp. 527-559.
- Lucille M. Schultz. “Elaborating Our History: A Look at Mid-19th Century First Books of Composition.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 45, no. 1, 1994, pp. 10– 30.
- Carol Severino. “Archivists with Different Attitudes.” College English 62.5 (2000): 645-653.
- Sue Carter Simmons. “Constructing Writers: Barrett Wendell's Pedagogy at Harvard.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 46, no. 3, 1995, pp. 327–352.
- Ryan Skinnell. "Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 1854 “Address to the Legislature of New York” and the Paradox of Social Reform Rhetoric." Rhetoric Review, vol. 29, no. 2, 2010, pp. 129-144.
- ___."A Problem of Publics and the Curious Case at Texas." JAC, vol. 33, no. 1/2, pp. 143-173.
- ___."Circuitry in Motion: Rhetoric(al) Moves in YouTube's Archive." enculturation: a journal for rhetoric, writing, and culture, vol. 8, 2010. http://enculturation.net/circuitry-in-motion
- "Institutionalizing Normal: Rethinking Composition's Precedence in Normal Schools." Composition Studies, vol. 41, no. 1, 2013, pp. 10-26.
- "Harvard, Again: Considering Articulation and Accreditation in Rhetoric and Composition's History." Rhetoric Review, vol. 33, no. 2, 2014, pp. 95-112.
- "Who Cares if Rhetoricians Landed on the Moon? Or, a Plea for Reviving the Politics of Historiography." Rhetoric Review, vol. 34, no. 2, 2015, pp. 111-128.
- (review) "In the Archives of Composition: Writing and Rhetoric in High Schools and Normal Schools." Rhetoric Review, vol. 35, no. 3, 2016, pp. 270-272.
- Suzanne B. Spring. “‘Seemingly Uncouth Forms’: Letters at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 59, no. 4, 2008, pp. 633–675.
- James J. Sosnoski and Ken S. McAllister. “Circuitous Subjects in Their Time Maps.” JAC 25.1 (2005): 31-53.
- Margaret M. Strain. "Local Histories, Rhetorical Negotiations: The Development of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 30.2 (2000): 57-76.
- Patricia Sullivan. “Inspecting Shadows of Past Classroom Practices: A Search for Students' Voices.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 63, no. 3, 2012, pp. 365–386.
- Pamela VanHaitsma. “New Pedagogical Engagements with Archives: Student Inquiry and Composing in Digital Spaces.” College English vol. 78, no. 1, 2015, pp. 34-55.
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