The New School Histories vertical's
latest post went up Tuesday - our first piece by a guest contributor. Appropriately it's the university archivist, Wendy Scheir, who offers the unexpectedly gripping tale of how the New School was an archive in itself long before it came an archive for itself. Along the way she confronts the myth that a commitment to the new requires a distancing from one's own past.
The delightfully witty image she picked for the headline has alas been chopped by Public Seminar's template. Here's the whole thing.
The New School Histories vertical's latest post went up Tuesday - our first piece by a guest contributor. Appropriately it's the university archivist, Wendy Scheir, who offers the unexpectedly gripping tale of how the New School was an archive in itself long before it came an archive for itself. Along the way she confronts the myth that a commitment to the new requires a distancing from one's own past. 
