AchiveGrid

Via ResearchBuzz I learned today of ArchiveGrid. Currently free, it may become a pay site if they don’t get additional funding by the end of the month. It allows you to search descriptions of the contents of hundreds of thousands of archives. If you are doing historical research of any kind it is definitely worth checking out!

P. Kerim Friedman is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures at National Dong Hwa University, in Taiwan, where he teaches linguistic and visual anthropology. He is co-director of the film Please Don't Beat Me, Sir!, winner of the 2011 Jean Rouch Award from the Society of Visual Anthropology. Follow Kerim on Twitter.