archives

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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.

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• SOURCE: Popular Mechanics
  4/15/19
  

  Robert Caro on the Importance of Analog Research in a Digital Age

  "Today everybody believes fast is good. Sometimes slow is good."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/9/19
  

  Obama’s Presidential Library Is Already Digital

  by Dan Cohen

  The question now is how to leverage its nature to make it maximally useful and used.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  3/8/19
  

  Whose History? Scholars and Students Attempt to Correct Years of Archival Neglect at Johns Hopkins

  Ideally the archive won't just serve the institution, but will face outward, toward the greater community. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/6/19
  

  Policing black Americans is a long-standing, and ugly, American tradition

  by Vanessa Holden and Edward E. Baptist

  A new database of all the fugitive slave ads from U.S. and colonial history reveal how white Americans trained and incentivized themselves to police black Americans’ movements.

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  3/2/19
  

  Barack Obama’s Presidential Library Is Making a Mockery of Transparency

  by Anthony Clark

  The leader of the “most transparent administration in history” has been anything but transparent when it comes to plans for his presidential center.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  2/25/19
  

  Obama Makes It Harder to See the Arc of History Bend

  by John Gans

  My old boss’ post-presidential center is a missed opportunity.

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• SOURCE: NY Times Magazine
  2/20/19
  

  The Obama Presidential Library That Isn’t

  President Obama unveiled the plans for the Obama Presidential Center in May 2017. He said he wanted a place that “looked forward, not backward, and would provide a place to train future leaders.”

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  Accessed 1/23/19
  

  The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson's Archives

  by Robert A. Caro

  A historian reflects on chasing a Presidential paper trail.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4-24-18
  

  Historian: Why destroying archives is never a good idea

  by Dora Vargha

  Case in point: What Britain did with files showing records from Caribbean immigrants.

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• 2-27-14
  

  With State Funding Drying Up, Museums and Archives Turn to the Private Sector

  by Victoria Torres

  Major corporations have stepped into the gap as federal and state arts and humanities budgets are slashed.

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• SOURCE: Wired
  2-6-14
  

  Twitter Opens Its Enormous Archives to Data-Hungry Academics

  Twitter is sharing its massive trove of data with the academic world — for free.