Jamie McKown, College of the Atlantic’s Wiggins Chair in Government and Polity, will host an instructive workshop on genealogical and historical research titled “History on the Cheap.” The workshop is on Saturday, Oct. 8 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the college’s McCormick Lecture Hall, at the north end of campus.

Using the examples of McKown’s recent project to recover the works of influential women’s suffrage …