Using manuscripts in your research can be an incredibly rewarding experience. Manuscript research puts you in direct contact with historical artifacts that connect us with times since passed. Sometimes, you will handle materials that have not been touched or seen by anyone in many years.

Manuscript research challenges you to use your imagination, curiosity, and detective skills in order to reconstruct the past. Your fresh perspective and creativity could add new life to documents as you use them in a way that no one else ever has. In this way, history is constantly written and rewritten by historians like you using manuscript materials.