Decolonizing the archive includes mobilizing students like mine to bethe decolonizers.
archives
Posted inNews
Introducing the World’s First Game Show Archive
The Strong National Museum of Play will collect scripts, set designs, props, and more.
Posted inNews
The History of Anti-racist Protests in Brooklyn, From Abolition to Black Lives Matter
Launching on Juneteenth, the Brooklyn Public Library’s newest initiative examines six decades of Black-led activism in the borough.
Posted inNews
Smithsonian Digitizes the Vast Archive of Artist Charles White
More than 17,000 items make up this collection of photographs, writings, correspondence, and biographical material from 1933 throughout the artist’s life.
Posted inOpinion
Artists Breathe New Life into Archives
By cutting, reframing, and layering, artists, including Rodell Warner and Alanna Fields, encourage a re-viewing of the past.
Posted inFilm
Your Chance to Create Your Own Online Film Program
The International Federation of Film Archives has devised the Programming Game, an easy way for curators, scholars, and fans to build a streaming series with free databases.
Posted inFilm
An Invaluable Black Public Broadcasting Archive Is Now Accessible Online
From a report on sundown towns to interviews with Angela Davis and Emmett Till’s mother, here are highlights from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.
Posted inArt
A Museum Is Building an Archive of Your Recipes, Photos, and Face Masks
The Autry Museum of the American West wants to document history in real-time by collecting objects and experiences from this quarantine period.
Posted inArt
Backpack-Sized Archiving Kit Empowers Community Historians to Record Local Narratives
The new Archivist in a Backpack project from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill equips community partners with tools to start material and oral history archives.
Posted inArt
The Long 1960s, Seen Through NYPD Surveillance Photographs
The show offers rich historical materials, but little contextualization or insight into its relevance for our current political moment.
Posted inHistory
UC Berkeley Uses Optical Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voices from Wax Cylinders
Among the wax cylinders in UC Berkeley’s Hearst Museum of Anthropology are songs and spoken-word recordings in 78 indigenous languages of California.
Posted inArt
Discover Over 1,700 Photos and Ephemera from the Early Years of Hip-Hop Online
The Sugar Hill Gang, Public Enemy, Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, and other hip-hop pioneers feature in the newly digitized material from Cornell University.