The I&A News Monitoring Research Team has compiled this list of recent news stories regarding topics of relevance to archives and archivists. View the full list of news stories online.
Acquisition, Preservation, & Access
- “Former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Thought War on Terror Would Be Easily Won” (FOIA and the National Security Archive)
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/30/581930133/former-defense-secretary-rumsfeld-thought-war-on-terror-would-be-easily-won - “Inside the Battle for Arthur Miller’s Archive”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/arts/arthur-miller-archive-ransom-center.html - “White House intends to destroy data from voter fraud commission”
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/10/politics/voter-fraud-commission-data/index.html - “How a Library Handles a Rare and Deadly Book of Wallpaper Samples”
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/shadows-from-the-walls-of-death-book
Archival Finds & Stories
- “They spoke out against immigrants. So she unearthed their own immigrant ancestors”
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/us/immigration-resistance-genealogy-jennifer-mendelsohn-trnd/index.html - “The Forgotten History of Black Women Protesting Sexual Assault”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-forgotten-history-of-black-women-protesting-sexual_us_5a4e29dee4b0d86c803c7c42
Digital Archives, Technology, & the Web
- “Saving Gawker and Alt-Weeklies from Deletion.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/business/media/gawker-archives-press-freedom.html - “Google App Goes Viral Making an Art Out of Matching Faces to Paintings”
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/15/578151195/google-app-goes-viral-making-an-art-out-of-matching-faces-to-paintings
Exhibits & Museums
- “A Diary from a Gulag Meets Evil with Lightness”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/arts/design/gulag-museum-moscow-diary.html - “Haslla Art World: Part museum, part hotel”
https://www.cnn.com/videos/travel/2018/01/31/haslla-art-world-gangwon-south-korea.cnn - “Super Bowl tourists will see Holocaust photo exhibit at Minneapolis airport”
https://forward.com/news/breaking-news/392996/super-bowl-tourists-will-see-holocaust-photo-exhibit-at-minneapolis-airport/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Main
Human & Civil Rights, Equality, & Health
- “How to Save the Memories of the Egyptian Revolution”
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/01/an-internet-archive-rekindles-the-egyptian-revolutions-spirit/551489/ - “‘There Are Higher Laws’: Inside the Archives of an Illegal Abortion Network”
https://splinternews.com/there-are-higher-laws-inside-the-archives-of-an-illega-1822280179 - “Archives chronicle decades of Baha’i persecution in Iran”
http://www.newscenter1.tv/story/37305919/archives-chronicle-decades-of-bahai-persecution-in-iran - “‘They’ve been invisible’: Seattle professor studies role of black grandmothers in society”
https://www.seattletimes.com/life/lifestyle/theyve-been-invisible-seattle-professor-studies-role-of-black-grandmothers-in-society/ - Trump Administration Skews Terror Data to Justify Anti-Muslim Travel Ban
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/16/trump-administration-skews-terror-data-to-justify-anti-muslim-travel-ban/ - “The Troubling Origins of the Skeletons in a New York Museum” (Thousands of Herero people died in a genocide. Why are Herero skulls in the American Museum of Natural History?)
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-troubling-origins-of-the-skeletons-in-a-new-york-museum - “‘Solicitor-client privilege’ keeping 98-year-old document on sick First Nations children under wraps”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/archives-secret-document-indigenous-children-removal-hospital-1.4513267
Security & Privacy
- “The Art of Crime”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-art-of-crime_us_5a5e7a28e4b0c40b3e59752e - “Historian Pleads Guilty to Theft of Government Records from the National Archives”
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167977
The Profession
- “Curating Band-Aids, Both Modern and Vintage”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/jobs/curating-band-aids-modern-vintage.html
Issues & Advocacy 