archives

• 
• SOURCE: Slate
  5/27/2020
  

  Future Historians Will Rely on Wikipedia’s COVID-19 Coverage

  Because Wikipedia archives each version of articles as they are edited, it offers a rich resource for tracking how knowledge of a subject changes. 

• 
• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/19/2020
  

  Pandemic Escape: Volunteers Transcribe Sally Ride’s Papers, Rosa Parks’s Recipes, Walt Whitman’s Poems

  Museums and research libraries are reporting huge spikes of do-it-yourself historians.

• 
• SOURCE: Vice
  5/17/2020
  

  ASU Historians Founded "Journal of the Plague Year" to Document the Pandemic in Real Time

  Historians Katherine Landdeck and Mark Tebeau weigh in on the importance of chronicling all types of experiences, no matter how mundane they may seem.

• 
• SOURCE: FOIA Ombudsman Blog (National Archives)
  5/14/2020
  

  The Importance of Preserving Pandemic Records

  The National Archives has joined other organizations in a call to ensure that records related to the pandemic and governments' responses are preserved and made accessible to future researchers.

• 
• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/14/2020
  

  Richard Gilder, Donor to Parks, Museum and History, Dies at 87

  Richard Gilder used his fortune to advance many passion projects, including the refurbishment of New York's Central Park and the preservation of primary documents important to the study of American history. 

• 
• SOURCE: Minneapolis Star-Tribune
  5/12/2020
  

  You're Witnessing History: Minnesota Historians Need Your Help to Document the Pandemic As It Happens

  Archivists are asking for blog posts, photos, signs, even T-shirts to capture pandemic history as it's happening. 

• 
• SOURCE: Wilton Bulletin
  5/9/2020
  

  Southern LGBTQ History Project Recognized By Archivists

  The Invisible Histories Project has received the Society of American Archivists' Archival Innovator Award for their efforts in preserving LGBTQ history.

• 
• SOURCE: WBUR
  5/6/2020
  

  Who Killed Truth? Historian Jill Lepore Searches For Answers On New Podcast

  The Harvard professor explores questions such as, "Where did the idea of a fact as an elemental unit of evidence come from? And then, what forces have undermined that over the years and especially recently?”

• 
• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/5/2020
  

  What Was Saved

  Sarah Broom's memoir "The Yellow House" reconstructs not only her family’s history in New Orleans but also that larger arc of the black experience in the United States.

• 
• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  5/3/2020
  

  Historical Archives Once Silenced Marginalized Voices. Now Pandemic Archivists Want Them to Be Heard.

  Historians are collecting archival documents related to COVID-19 in real-time to ensure that no experience with the virus is forgotten.

• 
• SOURCE: WCMU
  5/1/2020
  

  'Fresh Air' Remembers Jazz Archivist And Historian Michael Cogswell

  Michael Cogswell was a musician and historian who managed the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens. He was interviewed by Fresh Air in 2001.

• 
• SOURCE: Oregon Live
  4/20/2020
  

  Pellom McDaniels, Former Oregon State Defensive Star and NFL Veteran, Dies at 52

  Pellom McDaniels, 52, became a college professor after his football days, earning a PhD in American Studies. He was an assistant professor of African American Studies at Emory University, as well as a curator of African American collections for the school’s library.

• 
• 4/19/2020
  

  Losing Women—and Women’s History—in Times of Crisis

  by Megan Kate Nelson

  Women and all of their visible and invisible labor are at the center of the COVID crisis, and they are finding their way into news coverage of the pandemic. The stories of women living and suffering and dying throughout history, however, have largely fallen by the wayside.

• 
• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  4/13/2020
  

  What We Can Learn from 1918 Influenza Diaries

  Historians including Kevin Levin, Nancy Bristow and Lora Vogt reflect on what people today can do to help historians of the future understand life during the COVID crisis. 

• 
• SOURCE: CNN
  4/13/2020
  

  Race Against Time: Saving the Largest Archive of Chinese American History From Fire

  In January, a fire tore through an historic building in the heart of Manhattan's Chinatown, threatening to engulf decades of artifacts documenting Chinese life in the US.

• 
• 4/12/2020
  

  "My Entire Career has Led Me to this Project": HNN Interviews Kevin Kruse

  by Chelsea Connolly and Hana Hancock

  "This pandemic is global in scale and personal in impact, and as a result, it’s touching and transforming virtually every topic that historians have studied. We have a duty to share our insights with the larger world. They’re interested in what we have to say. (And, let’s remember, most of them are stuck at home looking for something to read!)"

• 
• SOURCE: TIME
  4/7/2020
  

  How New Efforts Are Recovering the Stories of People Who Were Deleted From History

  by Rachel Lance

  For so many American families, lack of representation in paperwork might have otherwise led to a lack of representation in memory, but technology and crowdsourcing are finally bringing them out of the shadows.

• 
• 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.

• 
• 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.

• 
• 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.