The Slave Societies Digital Archive documents the lives of approximately 6 million free and enslaved Africans in the Americas.
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Only a small fraction of the data from archaeological fieldwork is made accessible to the public or preserved for future research.
A tiny percentage of museums’ natural history holdings are on display. Very little of these vast archives is digitized and available online. But museums are working to change that.
Fifty years ago, an insurance agent named Paul Simpson was convinced of rampant bias on the evening news. So he embarked on a project to record each broadcast and store them at Vanderbilt University.
Digitized state records help to tell the stories of African-American prisoners in the 19th and 20th century.
Astronomers are gathering an exponentially greater amount of data every day – so much that it will take years to uncover all the hidden signals buried in the archives.
The Home Office threw away landing documents that are now vital to people trying to prove their right to stay in the UK.
Despite scientists’ initial concerns, federal climate change data sets are still available. But other documents and web pages have changed over the last year.
Wikipedia’s coverage on women is less comprehensive, and its volunteer editor base is mostly male. What can be done to change the numbers?
One hundred years after a strange and devastating pandemic, researchers comb for clues in dusty libraries, church records and long- forgotten books.
Australia’s plan to extend ISP ‘safe harbour’ copyright immunities to cultural institutions avoids more nuanced thinking about the nature and social value of culture, art and education.
Essays On Air: Reading Germaine Greer’s mail
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The Germaine Greer Archive offers a powerful, often amusing, sometimes perplexing glimpse into the lives of people affected by her work, as well as the many faces of Greer herself.
A newly published batch of Ernest Hemingway’s letters could change the way we think about the author’s influences, relationships with other writers and views on race.
Women have long been the targets of police violence as well as men.
Some people have objected to childhood vaccination since it was introduced in the late 1700s. And their reasons sound remarkably familiar to those of anti-vaxxers today.
There are about 59,000 cards in archival boxes from the Red Cross’s WW2 enquiry service. While their language is impersonal, the golden rule was to provide solace to soldiers’ families, and fast.
An online database explores the nearly 36,000 slave voyages that occurred between 1514 and 1866.
Fifty years of correspondence is stored at the Germaine Greer archive. It ranges across topics as diverse as US politics, grassroots feminism, gardening and Queen Victoria’s underpants.
Activists today are racing to save climate records from the Trump administration. Secret archives were a powerful way to fight hostile political climates throughout history – from the Nazis to the Islamic State.
The law says official presidential records must be preserved. How do tweets figure in – particularly when they’re altered or deleted?
Top contributors
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Assistant Curator for History and Culture, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
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Lecturer in Data & Society, The University of Edinburgh
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Assistant Archivist, Germaine Greer Archive, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of History, University of Waterloo
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Ph.D. Student in Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Curator of Scientific Collections, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Chair in Rock Art Research and Director of the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit (PERAHU), Griffith University
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Digital Archiving Specialist, The National Archives
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Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Social Justice, University of Liverpool
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Adjunct Fellow, Western Sydney University
