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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/14/2020
  

  This Year Will End Eventually. Document It While You Can.

  Museums are working overtime to collect artifacts and ephemera from the pandemic and the racial justice movement — and they need your help.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/9/2020
  

  During the Civil War, the Enslaved Were Given an Especially Odious Job. The Pay Went to Their Owners.

  The National Archives has made available online a trove of almost 6,000 Confederate government payroll records that account for money issued to hundreds of owners and others for the work of the enslaved.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/1/2020
  

  Celebrating 50 Years of Essence as a Black Women’s Archive

  by Jacinta R. Saffold

  "For the last 50 years, Essence Magazine has consistently found innovative approaches to archiving Black women’s lives by immortalizing our intellect, literature, and culture on glossy pages," writes Jacinta R. Saffold.

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• SOURCE: AL.com
  6/23/2020
  

  Archives Department Acknowledges Role In Distorting Alabama’s Racial History

  The Alabama Department of Archives & History said in a statement on Tuesday that it is committed to developing programs and exhibits to promote a deeper understanding of the roots and consequences of racism.

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  6/23/2020
  

  AHA Receives Major NEH Grant to Fund COVID-19 Initiative

  The American Historical Association is launching a major new initiative to help our members and their colleagues with the challenges of being a historian, and a history teacher, in a virtual environment.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/17/2020
  

  Forgotten Civil War Map Shows Antietam as a Cemetery

  The digital map, which had attracted little notice outside of the New York Public Library, offers significant insight into the course of a pivotal Civil War battle. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/15/2020
  

  The Risky Journey That Saved One of China’s Greatest Literary Treasures

  by Janie Chang

  The story of the Siku Quanshu Wenlan Ge is inseparable from the story of people who risked all to protect a cultural legacy, from the librarian who sold off his house to the students who would not abandon the heavy boxes that slowed their travel.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/10/2020
  

  Modigliani Expert Says a Nonprofit Is Holding His Research ‘Hostage’

  Marc Restellini, an art historian, is fighting the Wildenstein Plattner Institute over the ownership of a research archive he spent decades compiling.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/3/2020
  

  How Crowdsourcing Aided a Push to Preserve the Histories of Nazi Victims

  With people around the globe sheltering at home amid the pandemic, the Arolsen Archives asked for help indexing them. Thousands joined the effort.

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• 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. 

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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. 

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• 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. 

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• 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.

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• 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?”

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.