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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8/19/19
  

  Historians' archival research looks quite different in the digital age

  by Ian Milligan

  Our society’s historical record is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Think of all the information that you create today that will be part of the record for tomorrow. 

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• SOURCE: American Association for State and Local History
  8/21/19
  

  The Way We Do the Things We Do: Making History-Making Visible

  by Benjamin Filene

  Three museums in Stockholm demonstrate how can historians “pull back the curtain” and reveal the process of history-making in action. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  8/19/19
  

  New Documents Show Japan's Wartime Emperor Showed Remorse Over Nanjing Massacre

  The notes, taken by former Imperial Household Agency chief Michiji Tajima, were released Monday by public broadcaster NHK, which aired a documentary on the subject Saturday.

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• SOURCE: AP
  8/17/19
  

  Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum gets grants to help publish Abraham Lincoln papers

  The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has received more than $400,000 in grants for a project that aims to publish every document written by the nation's 16th president.

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• 8/4/2019
  

  JSTOR Interview Archive Helps Preserve History

  by Alex Humphreys

  The new JSTOR Interview Archive prototype preserves full length interviews with historical figures for educators, students, and researchers.

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• August 4, 2019
  

  The Professor Who Was Ostracized for Claiming the Civil War Was About Slavery – In 1911

  by Stephen Leccese

  Sometimes when we’re poking around in an archive, we come across century-old documents that are strangely relevant.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  7/30/19
  

  The Library of Congress Wants Your Help Transcribing Suffragist Papers

  Nearly 16,000 pages of diaries, letters, speeches and other documents are available on the library’s crowdsourcing platform.

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• SOURCE: UPI
  7/24/19
  

  Historian unearths evidence that Istanbul directed Armenian genocide

  New documents suggest the Armenian genocide was both sanctioned and assisted by leaders of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul.

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• SOURCE: The North Star
  7/30/19
  

  Smithsonian’s Museum Of African American History And Culture Acquires Jet And Ebony Archive

  Containing more than 4 million photographs, the collection will be distributed among a number of cultural institutions, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Getty Research Institute.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/25/19
  

  Ebony’s Photo Archive Goes for $30 Million, for Future in Public View

  The vast photo archive of Ebony and Jet magazines has been sold to a group of four major foundations with a promise that it will be available to the public.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  7/9/19
  

  The World-Class Photography of Ebony and Jet Is Priceless History. It's Still Up For Sale.

  by Alison Miller

  The archive’s unquestionable historical value means there’s more than money at stake in the process of finding a new home for it.

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• 6/23/19
  

  Wealth, Access, and Archival Fetishism in the New Cold War History

  by Benjamin R. Young

  Cold War historians are only reinforcing elitist hierarchies if they continue to almost singularly hold up multinational research in previously unexplored archives as the gold standard of quality scholarship. 

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• SOURCE: AP
  6/19/19
  

  GU272 Memory Project Launches on Juneteenth

  In addition to documents, photographs and the indexed genealogies of thousands of descendants, the project includes recorded interviews with dozens of living descendants.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/6/2019
  

  YouTube blocks history teachers uploading archive videos of Hitler

  Teachers trying to educate about fascism hit by service’s new policy on hate speech.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  5/3/2019
  

  Karen Sieber on her mission to archive the Red Summer of 1919

  by Karen Sieber

  Her act of “tactical history” has provided tens of thousands of users with access to information that is otherwise disjointed and hidden.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/22/19
  

  The American GI in WWII, uncensored

  by Edward Gitre

  The novel idea of surveying GIs reflected the growing prestige of opinion polling and social surveying and democratic virtue. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/10/19
  

  Truth, justice and declassification: Secret archives show US helped Argentine military wage ‘dirty war’ that killed 30,000

  by Rut Diamint

  The archives narrate the human rights abuses committed by Argentina’s military government, often with the assistance of the United States.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/1/19
  

  Saidiya Hartman Unravels the Archive

  In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Hartman recovers the forgotten “sexual modernists” of 20th century black life.

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• SOURCE: Time
  http://time.com/5579971/christopher-st-stonewall-h
  

  50 Years After Stonewall, We’re Still Disagreeing About What Happened There. That’s Why the Archives Matter

  by Jason Baumann

  Given the tremendous gains made by LGBTQ activists in the intervening years, it can be difficult for people to remember the oppression suffered by LGBTQ people in the United States in the 1950s and ’60s. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  4/24/19
  

  Filmmaker George Lucas, Wife Mellody Hobson Seek Control of Ebony, Jet Archives

  A company controlled by the couple says the archives are at risk after the recent bankruptcy of the magazines’ former publisher.