GU272 Memory Project

Author(s): New England Historic Genealogical Society
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Citation: New England Historic Genealogical Society. GU272 Memory Project. https://gu272.americanancestors.org/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation: In 1838, Maryland’s Jesuit priests sold hundreds of men, women, and children to Southern plantations to raise money for the construction of Georgetown University. This site may be used to search for an ancestor and to hear the stories of the more than 8,000 descendants of the enslaved, located through genealogical research.

 

Digital Public Library of America

Author(s): Digital Public Library of America
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Citation: Digital Public Library of America. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets.
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).
Annotation: These explore topics in history, literature, and culture, developed by educators

 

Black Women’s Suffrage Portal

Author(s): Digital Public Library of America
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Citation: Digital Public Library of America. Black Women’s Suffrage Portal. https://blackwomenssuffrage.dp.la/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
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Annotation: The Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection is a collaborative project to provide digital access to materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women’s rights, voting rights, and civic activism between the 1850s and 1960.

 

Khmer Rouge Archives

Author(s): Documentation Center of Cambodia
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Citation: Documentation Center of Cambodia. Khmer Rouge Archives. http://dccam.org/khmer-rouge-archives.
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).
Annotation: The Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) is the world’s largest repository of printed documents and other original documentary materials relating to the Democratic Kampuchea regime.

 

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.