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Due to the vagaries of her music manuscripts and the historical neglect of women composers, Bembo and her opera were overlooked for centuries.
Book science helps decipher and preserve fragile manuscripts, at a moment when climate change and mass digitization are reshaping cultural heritage work.
With an average temperature of -50°C, Antarctica’s first-ever 100% natural sanctuary protects endangered ice cores from global warming.
Kraftwerk helped invent modern electronic music. What happens to their legacy when a co-founder’s studio is broken up and sold off?
The University of Colorado Law School had never done a history of its Black students – until now.
Not all early 20th century Jewish immigrants to South Africa were commercially successful.
The broadcasting history preserved by the WAC features innumerable strands of our social, political and cultural histories.
Trump’s sudden dismissal of Carla Hayden, the librarian appointed by former President Barack Obama, has placed the little-known Library of Congress in the spotlight.
Libraries and archives at universities across the nation catalog and steward the donated papers of members of Congress. But that historically significant work is now in jeopardy.
African prisoners in German camps were studied by ethnographers, who recorded their voices. What they had to say is poignant and unexpected.
Canada’s Cultural Property Export and Import Act alone won’t guarantee that HBC artifacts intended for auction don’t wind up in private collectors’ hands or dispersed globally.
Every democracy needs a national archive. Trump’s staffing shake-up is endangering an institution that preserves the nation’s history.
Murray Sinclair’s firm approach to justice and reconciliation is part of what inspires me, as an intergenerational Survivor, to confront challenges rooted in colonization with strength and resolve.
A seven-year diplomatic dispute over the land earmarked for the ski resort ensured it was never built.
Charmaine Papertalk Green sifts through the violent, traumatic colonial archive, to know more about her Old People. It’s heartbreaking work, but a sliver of information can make a world of difference.
Echoes of Southern African Independence is an audio archive project that brings history alive in a fresh and unique way.
You can uncover the depths and hidden details of your own family’s unspoken narratives by thinking like an archival researcher writing an ‘investigative memoir.’
David Jones is donating its archive to Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum. It is a timely reminder of the significance of ‘DJs’ to the development of modern Australia.
Swift positions herself in a long history of women accused of ‘behaving badly’ while revealing the importance of revisiting our understanding of the past based on shifting evidence.
Top contributors
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Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Assistant Archivist, Germaine Greer Archive, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Data & Society, University of Edinburgh
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Professor of History, University of Waterloo
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Assistant Curator for History and Culture, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Ph.D. Student in Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor, School of History and International Relations, Flinders University
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Postdoctoral Fellow in History, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Paleontology and Director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
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Senior Lecturer in Law, King's College London
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Professor Emeritus, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
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Humanities Librarian, University of Rochester
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Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County