The Museum of Science and Industry abruptly closed for a day last week to allow it to move “military artifacts from archival storage” ~humanities.history Article 794 words, published Apr 9 2024 26 votes
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How codebreakers decrypted a trove of long-lost letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots ~humanities.history Article 1387 words 7 votes
Europeana contains over ten million digitalised artifacts from across Europe ~humanities.history Link 8 votes
New technique reveals centuries of secrets in locked letters ~humanities.history Article 1039 words, published Mar 2 2021 4 votes
Rosa Parks' Stanford press conference recording now accessible online ~humanities.history Article 379 words, published Dec 18 2019 5 votes
Pandemic escape: Volunteers transcribe Sally Ride’s papers, Rosa Parks’s recipes, Walt Whitman’s poems ~humanities.history Article 1239 words 7 votes
Vatican opens archives of World War II-era Pope Pius XII ~humanities.history Article 720 words 6 votes
Papers behind the pistol: Mauser's archives on the Model 1910 ~humanities.history Video 14:33 4 votes
Archivists race to digitize slavery records before the history is lost ~humanities.history Article 1392 words 9 votes