archives

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  10/2/19
  

  National Security Archive, CREW, Historians Ask Federal Judge to Preserve Head of State Records

  by Tom Blanton

  Government agrees to preserve White House records.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/30/2019
  

  Why historians are fighting to save Thomas Cook’s enormous archive

  by Stephanie Decker

  With this 178-year-old firm, its heritage is about to be lost and a number of business historians – myself included – are fighting to save it.

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• SOURCE: The National Archives
  9/25/19
  

  Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero Interviews Justice Gorsuch about the Constitution

  by James Worsham

  Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero spoke with Gorsuch in a conversation about his new book.  

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  9/16/19
  

  Making a People's History: Community Archives and Movement Activism in Arkansas

  by Acadia Roher

  How the Arkansas People’s History Project utilizes public history and engagement. 

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• SOURCE: Stat News
  9/12/19
  

  Historians push to create public archive of documents from massive opioid litigation

  Featuring historians Antoine Lentacker and Rachel Taketa.

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• SOURCE: African American Intellectual History Society
  9/6/19
  

  Ownership and Access: The Ebony and Jet Magazines Archive

  by Jessica Parr

  The sale of The Ebony and Jet Magazines have raised concerns among historians, archivists, and the Black community.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/9/19
  

  What Happens to Those Heartbreaking Tributes at the 9/11 Memorial

  The expressions of mourning left behind at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum are cleared nightly and preserved.

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• SOURCE: The Japan Times
  9/9/19
  

  At meeting in Kyoto, global body debates how to define and protect museums

  At the heart of the debate is determining the role museums should play in the 21st century, and the extent to which they should engage the public.

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• SOURCE: Texas Observer
  8/30/19
  

  The Houston Flood Museum and the Harvey Memories Project Gather Harvey Memories for Historians of the Future

  They’re a time capsule of the destruction wrought by the deadliest storm to hit Texas since 1919.

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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.