Fellow historians and friendly archivists! Since it’s going to be much harder for our seniors to get into local archives for research this fall, I’m making a big list of great digitized manuscript collections. Any favorites I should add?

Author(s): Shulman, P. A.
Date: 8/18/2020
Publication: Twitter
Citation: Shulman, P. A. [@pashulman]. (2020, August 18). Fellow historians and friendly archivists! Since it’s going to be much harder for our seniors to get into local archives for research this fall, I’m making a big list of great digitized manuscript collections. Any favorites I should add? [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/pashulman/status/1295873518672936960.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
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Early Caribbean Digital Archive

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Citation: Early Caribbean Digital Archive. ecda.northeastern.edu/home/about/decolonizing-the-archive/what-we-are-doing/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Connecting to the personal and to communities outside of academia. Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive). Considering alternative histories and narratives.
Annotation: The ECDA has two primary related, overarching goals: the first is to uncover and make accessible a literary history of the Caribbean written or related by Black, enslaved, Creole, indigenous, and/or colonized people. The second is to enable users to understand the colonial nature of the archive and to use the digital archive as a site of revision and remix for exploring ways to decolonize the archive.

 

Slave Voyages

Author(s): Emory University
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Citation: Emory University. Slave Voyages. https://www.slavevoyages.org/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation: This digital memorial raises questions about the largest slave trades in history and offers access to the documentation available to answer them, as well as interactive maps, timelines, and animations.

 

Chicana Feminism Virtually Remixed

Author(s): Garcia Merchant, L.
Date: 2018
Publication: American Quarterly
Citation: Garcia Merchant, L. (2018). Chicana Feminism Virtually Remixed. American Quarterly 70(3), 605-607. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/704342/pdf.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Connecting to the personal and to communities outside of academia. Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
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Georgetown Slavery Archive

Author(s): Georgetown University
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Citation: Georgetown University. Georgetown Slavery Archive. https://slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation: The Georgetown Slavery Archive is a repository of materials relating to the Maryland Jesuits, Georgetown University, and slavery. This project was initiated in February 2016 by the Archives Subgroup of the Georgetown University Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation and is part of Georgetown University’s Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation initiative.

 

The Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 1674-1913

Author(s): Hitchcock, T. Shoemaker, R. Emsley, C. Howard, S. & McLaughlin, J. et al.
Date: 2012
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Citation: Hitchcock, T., Shoemaker, R., Emsley, C., Howard, S., & McLaughlin, J. et al. (2012). The Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 1674-1913. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation: A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court.

 

Inland Empire Memories

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Citation: Inland Empire Memories. http://www.inlandempirememories.org/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive). Considering alternative histories and narratives.
Annotation: Inland Empire Memories is an alliance of libraries, archives, and cultural heritage organizations dedicated to identifying, preserving, interpreting, and sharing the rich cultural legacies of diverse communities in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, a geographical region also known as Inland Southern California.