Tag: Archives
The Internet Archive has been fighting for 25 years to keep...
Kayla Harris, University of Dayton; Christina Beis, University of Dayton, and Stephanie Shreffler, University of Dayton
This year the...
Conservation Ecology National parks California Land management Archives Wildfires
Emily Lin, University of California, Merced
Editor’s note: As wildfires came dangerously close to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in September 2020, the curator...
Repatriating the archives: Lumbee scholars find their people and bring them...
Ashley Minner, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Jessica R. Locklear, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Following World War II, thousands of Lumbee...
Your internet data is rotting
Paul Royster, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Many MySpace users were dismayed to discover earlier this year that the social media platform lost 50 million files uploaded...
Misery and memory in Glendora, Mississippi: How poverty is reshaping the...
Dave Tell, University of Kansas
In August of 1955, Emmett Till was lynched in the Mississippi Delta. The 14-year-old African American reportedly whistled at a...
I dig through archives to unearth hidden stories from African-American history
Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University
Many years ago, as a graduate student searching in the archives of Spanish Florida, I discovered the first “underground railroad” of...
America’s archaeology data keeps disappearing — even though the law says...
Keith Kintigh, Arizona State University
Archaeology – the name conjures up images of someone carefully sifting the sands for traces of the past and then...
The next big discovery in astronomy? Scientists probably found it years...
Eileen Meyer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Earlier this year, astronomers stumbled upon a fascinating finding: Thousands of black holes likely exist near the center...
EXPLORING NATURE
3 years after the Marshall Fire: Wildfire smoke’s health risks can...
Colleen E. Reid, University of Colorado Boulder
Three years ago, on Dec. 30, 2021, a wind-driven wildfire raced through...
