archives

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• SOURCE: Milwaukee Magazine
  3/18/2020
  

  UWM Archive Chronicling Milwaukee's Coronavirus Experience for History

  “Historical institutions commit to opening their doors and taking in documents and records that might help preserve the community’s memory for future generations.”, says historian Christopher D. Cantwell.

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• SOURCE: Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
  3/16/2020
  

  Lawsuit: Ice Must Not Destroy Detainee Records

  NARA approved ICE’s request to begin destroying the records in December 2019, despite ongoing concerns and reports of widespread mistreatment of individuals detained in ICE custody.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  2/26/20
  

  History by Text and Thing

  by ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball

  For researchers, history is a thing we do. It is an activity, a handling of old books, a building seen from the vantage point of its past. 

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• SOURCE: American Ancestors
  2/10/10
  

  New England Historic Genealogical Society Receives Collection of Roosevelt Family Papers from the Theodore Roosevelt Association of Oyster Bay, New York

  The new Roosevelt family materials will comprise part of the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections at American Ancestors.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/4/20
  

  Why You May Never Learn the Truth About ICE

  by Matthew Connelly

  The National Archives is letting millions of documents, including many related to immigrants’ rights, be destroyed or deleted.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/31/20
  

  It wasn’t just the National Archives. The Library of Congress also balked at a Women’s March photo.

  The library’s decision is the second-known instance of a federal government institution acting to prevent images it determined to be critical of Trump from being shown to the public. 

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• SOURCE: AP
  2/1/20
  

  Historians Struggle to Understand Oral History Written in Forgotten Shorthand

  The 1951 transcription is written in a decades-old shorthand style that few people use today. “It’s definitely a lost art,” Langsdon said.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/21/20
  

  The Way We Write History Has Changed

  by Alexis C. Madrigal

  A deep dive into an archive will never be the same.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/16/20
  

  Universities must open their archives and share their oppressive pasts

  by Evadne Kelly and Carla Rice

  The archives of academic institutions can tell previously untold stories of eugenics. Universities can begin to undo oppressive legacies by opening them to artists and communities.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/6/20
  

  Building a digital archive for decaying paper documents, preserving centuries of records about enslaved people

  by Daniel Genkins

  Paper archives are vulnerable to flooding, humidity, insects, and rodents, among other threats. Political instability can cut off money used to maintain archives and institutional neglect can transform precious records into moldy rubbish.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/14/20
  

  Archivist and bookseller plead guilty to pilfering $8M in rare texts from Carnegie Library

  One by one, rare books vanished from the library — the Journal of George Washington; a copy of Isaac Newton’s “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica” valued at nearly $1 million; an Atlas by a 19th-century German explorer worth $1.2 million.

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• SOURCE: Telegraph
  1/7/20
  

  British National Archives to trial 12-document limit per day for visitors, as academics warn research could be affected

  The National Archives claimed the move was designed to increase efficiency - but faced an immediate backlash from historians who complained their work could become untenable. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/18/19
  

  Why we all have the knowledge to decide whether Donald Trump should be impeached

  by Karin Wulf

  The crucial importance of keeping historical records public and easily accessible.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/9/19
  

  Internet Historians Mourn Loss Of Cultural Record As Yahoo Prepares To Delete Groups

  At one time, there were 10 million Yahoo Groups with more than 100 million users - from neighborhood organizations to amateur astronomers. On Saturday, the archives disappeared.

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• SOURCE: Irish Times
  12/5/19
  

  Irish Archive Recreates Documents Lost in in 1922 fire

  Four Courts fire at start of Civil War destroyed centuries of historic documents.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/20/19
  

  Between the Lines of the Xinjiang Papers

  by James A. Millward

  The Chinese Communist Party is devouring its own and cutting itself off from reality.

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• SOURCE: The National Archives AOTUS Blog
  11/18/19
  

  Making Access Happen: NARA’s Leadership in the Digital Decade

  by David Ferriero

  Ferriero discusses how the National Archives has advanced their digital access for their records through collaboration, innovation, and learning.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/30/19
  

  The priceless history inside the Reagan Library, narrowly saved from a fast-moving wildfire

  by Gillian Brockell

  The article includes tweets and quotes from historians Glenda Gilmore, Douglas M. Charles, Peter A. Shulman, and Kevin Kruse. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/27/19
  

  Steal This Archive? Abbie Hoffman’s Papers Become a College Collection

  Thousands of letters and other artifacts from the life of the radical prankster of the counterculture are sold to the University of Texas at Austin.

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• SOURCE: 60 Minutes
  10/20/19
  

  Who's stealing Christopher Columbus letters from libraries around the world?

  Copies of a letter written by Christopher Columbus describing his first impressions of the Americas have become so rare and valuable, they're being stolen and replaced with forgeries at some of the world's most prestigious libraries.