Link Roundup: August 5, 2024
This week's articles emphasize the importance of archival work and offer an interesting writing-process heuristic.
Archival Research
Link Roundup: July 29, 2024
This week's articles touch on how complexity emerges from simple systems.
Memory, Document, Archive
By collecting and categorizing historical artifacts, archives deeply influence the historical record. But they exist in complicated institutional settings, and archivists can't always have full control over how their archives present history. Researchers have to consider the archive less as a neutral place and more as a motivated and rhetorical construction.