Documents on Wheels is a minority business created by Karen Needles, an Air Force Veteran and teacher of 15 years. She has worked with primary sources for over 15 years, and began working with technology when the Internet was a non-graphical interface. Her experience with records and with technology has been the foundation for the Lincolnarchives Digital Project. Her passion for history and her search for the unknown has led to new documents uncovered for the first time and used by scholars in their books and publications.
$45 per hour, with a four hour minimum
In 2007, the Lincolnarchives Digital Project located a new Grace Bedell document within the Treasury Records in the National Archives. We traveled to Delphos, Ks. where Grace Bedell settled after the war. More info...
Your online resource to digital copies of documents, maps, photographs, and newspapers from the Lincolnarchives Digital Project
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Welcome to the world of research. Documents on Wheels strives to provide quality digital images of historical records requested by our customers. We have provided documents to clients from Europe, as well as here in the States.
From documents, to motion picture, photographs, maps, etc. our mission is to provide speedy service and a quality product.
Documents was established in March of 2002 by Karen Needles, professional educator, with 15 years of teaching experience, and 20 + years with technology.
She has worked as an educational consultant with IBM, Discovery Channel and Cable in the Classroom, Turner Learning, and Harpweek. In 1999, she relocated to the Maryland area, and accepted a job with the Library of Congress as an Educational Consultant with the National Digital Library project (American Memory collections http://memory.loc.gov). For three and a half years, she trained teachers and students around the country, how to navigate and use the American Memory collections.
As a history teacher by trade, and knowing that history classrooms receive little or no budgets for resources, she established Documents on Wheels, to provide such resources from the National Archives and Records Administration, and from the Library of Congress online.
She currently performs research for leading Lincoln authors and has been acknowledged in several books, including Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals", James Swanson's "Manhunt", Ron Soodalter's "Hanging Captain Gordon, Mathew Pinsker's "Lincoln's Sanctuary", and Ron White Jr.'s "The Eloquent President" as well as his new Lincoln biography "A. Lincoln".
On February 12, 2006, she launched www.lincolnarchives.us. This website, in preparation for the Lincoln Bicentennial and the upcoming Civil War sesquicentennial is devoted to the scholarly study of the Lincoln administration and the Civil War. Digitizing records from the National Archives and Records Administration, the goal is to provide a definitive website for the study of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Once completed the project will have inventoried the entire holdings of the National Archives, providing instant access to the millions of records, providing full search capabilities, which will enable users to find related documents in the thousands of record groups and entries in a matter of seconds. Related primary and secondary sources will be linked through metadata.