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Visitors browse newspaper front pages from the day after the 9/11 terror attacks at the Newseum in Washington, D,C., in 2016. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

When History Is Lost in the Ether

Digital archiving is shoddy and incomplete, and it will hamper the ability of future generations to understand the current era.
by Christian Schneider via The Dispatch on April 6, 2022
Three versions of quote from "Appeal"
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Comparing Editions of David Walker's Abolitionist Appeal

Digitization allows researchers to trace editorial and authorial changes in archival content. Both are central to the study of this famous abolitionist pamphlet.
by Loren Schweninger, Manisha Sinha, Melvin L. Rogers, Dorothy Berry, Marc M. Arkin, Marcy J. Dinius, Lori Leavell, Hasan Crockett, Gene Andrew Jarrett via JSTOR Daily on March 31, 2022
Illustration of Elizabeth Keckley
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Elizabeth Keckley's Memoir Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four in the White House

Keckley’s decision to write about her employers from the viewpoint of a household laborer--she was seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln--enraged audiences.
by Dorothy Berry, James Olney, Carme Manuel, Janet Neary, Carolyn Sorisio via JSTOR Daily on March 10, 2022
Eighth graders create a group map of the United State.

What Happens to Middle School Kids When You Teach Them About Slavery? Here’s a Vivid Example.

The topic is emotional. That’s not a bad thing.
by Mary Niall Mitchell, Kate Shuster via Slate on February 10, 2022
Woman preparing to digitize a manuscript document.
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Archives in the Digital Age

How digital archives shape historical research and collective memory.

American Revolutionary Geographies Online

Discover the stories, spaces, and people of the American Revolutionary War era through maps, interpretive essays, and interactives.
via Argomaps.org on February 8, 2022
Portrait photograph of John B. Cade.
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John B. Cade's Project to Document the Stories of the Formerly Enslaved

There are revelations in a newly digitized collection of slave narratives compiled by a professor and his students during the Great Depression.
by Susanna Ashton via JSTOR Daily on January 26, 2022
A print based on David Gilmour Blythe's fanciful painting of Lincoln writing the Emancipation Proclamation
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The Emancipation Proclamation: Annotated

Abraham Lincoln proclaimed freedom for enslaved people in America on January 1, 1863. Today, we've annotated the Emancipation Proclamation for readers.
by Abraham Lincoln via JSTOR Daily on January 1, 2022
A selection of newspaper covers from the Reveal Digital American Prison Newspapers collection
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Introducing American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside

This overlooked corner of the press provided news by and for people incarcerated. A newly available archive shows it worked hard to reach outside audiences too.
by Kate McQueen via JSTOR Daily on September 22, 2021
A view of businesses on Flatbush Avenue

A Stroll Down Flatbush Avenue circa 1914

An interactive virtual stroll down Flatbush Avenue circa 1914, compiled from Subway Construction photos published by the NY Historical Society.
by Chris Whong via Stroll Down Flatbush on September 22, 2021
Spotify-based illustration

What Will Happen to My Music Library When Spotify Dies?

If your entire collection is on a streaming service, good luck accessing it in 10 or 20 years.
by Joe Pinsker via The Atlantic on July 19, 2021
Picture of a computer.

The Internet Is Rotting

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.
by Jonathan Zittrain via The Atlantic on June 30, 2021
Illustration of a stick figure on a ladder adding to very tall stacks of paper

Living Memory

Black archivists, activists, and artists are fighting for justice and ethical remembrance — and reimagining the archive itself.
by Megan Pillow via Guernica on June 23, 2021
An African American woman standing on a porch with three young children

The House Archives Built

How racial hierarchies are embedded within the archival standards and practices that legitimize historical memory.
by Dorothy Berry via up//root on June 22, 2021
African American men in suits, sitting outside of a drugstore

The Game Is Changing for Historians of Black America

For centuries, stories of Black communities have been limited by racism in the historical record. Now we can finally follow the trails they left behind.
by William Sturkey via The Atlantic on May 4, 2021
A boy surfs on a computer keyboard surrounded by details from earlier internet eras.

You Probably Don’t Remember the Internet

How do we memorialize life online when it’s constantly disappearing?
by Kaitlyn Tiffany via The Atlantic on March 22, 2021
Collage of FSA and OWI photographs
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Photogrammar

A web-based visualization platform for exploring the 170,000 photos taken by U.S. government agencies during the Great Depression.
by Lauren Tilton, Taylor Arnold via American Panorama on February 10, 2021
An old black and white photo at a dinner event

The History of American Newspapers is More Searchable Than Ever

A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher shows an industry with moments of glory and shame — and evidence that not all of today's problems are new.
by Joshua Benton via Nieman Lab on February 2, 2021
Political cartoon of three pigs with oil company logos
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The Campus Underground Press

The 1960s and 70s were a time of activism in the U.S., and therefore a fertile time for campus newspapers and the alternative press.
by Liza Featherstone via JSTOR Daily on January 6, 2021
A mural of a woman cleaning a turnstile.

How to Remember a Plague

2020 was full of efforts to archive photos and artifacts of the pandemic — an impulse born of a sense of witnessing history, and a desire to speak to the future.
by Laura Bliss via CityLab on December 31, 2020
The Citizen DJ logo, a stylized stick-figure person with headphones on.

Citizen DJ 2020 Retrospective

The long history of sampling in music, and a new tool that lets artists sample without fear of copyright claims.
by Brian Foo via Citizen DJ on December 31, 2020
A picture of Trump going through a shredder.

Will Trump Burn the Evidence?

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on November 16, 2020
Person holding up two cylindrical records

A Temple of Sound Awaits in the UCSB’s Collection of Early Music and Sound Recordings

The treasures include recordings of string quartets, spirituals, sermons and politicians who might have been startled to hear the sound of their own voices.
by Randall Roberts via Los Angeles Times on November 12, 2020

The My Generation: An Oral History Of Myspace Music

Myspace changed the way we discovered music and fell apart after conquering the world.
by Michael Tedder via Stereogum on March 30, 2020

The Old Internet Died And We Watched And Did Nothing

It’s 2020 — do you know where your content is?
by Katie Notopoulos via BuzzFeed News on December 28, 2019
a blurry image of yahoo.com's home page

Should the National Register of Historic Places Apply to Websites?

Corporate motivation isn’t enough when it comes to digital preservation. Here’s a case for creating a National Register of Historic Places for websites.
by Ernie Smith via Tedium on October 17, 2019

The Hidden Story of Two African American Women

An historian discovers the portraits of two women all bound up in the pages of a 19th-century book.
by Martha S. Jones, Kate Clarke Lemay via The Conversation on September 9, 2019
A clue and black clay figuring with a Sony Watchman attached as its "head."

Please, My Digital Archive. It’s Very Sick.

Our past on the internet is disappearing before we can make it history.
by Tanner Howard via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 4, 2019
Two people studying law books.

Repository of Historical Gun Laws

The Duke Center for Firearms Law's efforts to catalog the history of gun laws.
via Duke Center For Firearms Law on June 1, 2019
African men in slave pens in Washington D.C. circa 1849-1850.
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How Ancestry.com Has Failed African American Customers

The genealogy site fails to understand the fundamental differences between white and black history.
by Kristen Green via Made by History on May 31, 2019
Sparkle Moore performing with guitar

New Web Project Immortalizes the Overlooked Women Who Helped Create Rock and Roll in the 1950s

Hundreds—or maybe thousands—of women and girls performed and recorded rock and roll in its early years.
by Josh Jones via Open Culture on May 23, 2019
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