The book shows that the claim made by some analysts that it was the fall of communism that prompted moves towards negotiations to end apartheid is off the mark.
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Policymakers should mandate Canada’s national library to archive the entire Canadian web domain so future reserachers can make sense of 2020 and ongoing responses to the pandemic.
Under lockdown, Cineteca Milano is releasing 20 archived films a week online. Why aren’t we seeing this from our National Film and Sound Archive?
State archives hold precious Noongar letters pleading for the return of Stolen Generations children. Among them, I find my grandmother’s grandfather: historical records of love.
Does South Africa have skeletons in the closet over the death of the UN Secretary-General?
To confront colonialism, universities must open their archives and let communities see their pasts, eugenics and all.
Centuries’ worth of important information is stored on paper – which can decay, burn or get eaten by pests. Peek inside the process of making all that data digital.
An archive project is restoring the secret history of Namibia’s resistance music culture from the 1950s to the late 1980s – suppressed and censored during apartheid but now touring the world.
When the University of Cape Town discovered skeletons in its archive that had been unethically obtained and used, they set about restoring justice to the bones and the community they came from.
Most histories highlight the shattered storefronts and synagogues set aflame. But it was the systematic ransacking of Jewish homes that extracted the greatest toll.
Libraries, archives, museums and galleries have finally been included in South Africa’s contested new proposed copyright bill.
Thomas Cook may be history – but that history is about to be lost.
Davide Tanasi, a digital archaeologist, thinks it’s a pity when historical artifacts are locked away in storage. He’s working to fix this by sharing them as 3D models.
Forgetting is beneficial for the human brain. But the internet has made it harder to let go of painful or problematic memories.
Patient information dumped on the side of the road in Brisbane recently has raised the issue of how hospitals and clinics manage their old paper records.
Hidden for decades in a vault at the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation, the photographs depict a regime fixated on establishing order, meting out punishment and stoking nationalism.
Layers of rock provide a historical record of variations in the Earth’s orbit, revealing information about the planet’s climate billions of years ago.
Ennigaldi-Nanna is largely unknown in the modern day. But in 530BC, this Mesopotamian priestess worked to arrange and label various artefacts in the world’s first museum.
MySpace users were recently shocked to learn that the company lost 50 million user files. It’s a harsh lesson in not leaving your intellectual property unprotected on the information superhighway.
Scholars continue to debate what, exactly, happened to Emmett Till the morning of his murder. But that hasn’t stopped a poor Mississippi community from trying to profit off one version of the story.
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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