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What would you do?: Historians’ ethics and digitized archives

On April 8, 2016 at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting, I participated in a roundtable discussion “Leading Together: Archivists & Historians Shaping the Digital Archive.” You can see tweets or read Stacie…

Joshua Rangeryesterday2 min read

5 Dollar Memories

On a recent visit home I finally addressed the bins and bins of baseball cards I had collected during an intense phase from around 1989–1992. At the time the cards of even unknown players (“Commons”) were worth 3–5 cents (Where did my cents symbol on the keyboard go?), and mildly competent…

Jessica S. Parmer in That Odd MomApr 84 min read

Hello, Is it Me You’re Looking For?

That Odd Mom Archives.

As of now, Medium doesn’t provide any sort of archive feature for publications. You’re going to have make do with browsing here in you are looking for something specific.

Joshua Ranger in On ArchivyApr 71 min read

Avoiding the Archive

During my time as an archives student I made a studious practice of avoiding being a part of any archive. At conferences and events I avoided being photographed as if it were stealing my soul. I had the sixth sense to know when a photographer was nearby, and at just the right moment I would…

Joshua RangerApr 7

Memories

Memories fit into two categories: Those that fade that you wish you could hold onto, and those that remain that you wish you could purge.

Doing archivesApr 72 min read

We’re revising archival courseware to be better than fee-based webinars …

Open consultation
Creating a digital asset open courseware for a global audience: call for participation, testing and publication

Joshua RangerApr 62 min read

I Did Start the Fire

In the late fall of 2007 I took the accumulated personal history of 15 years and set it aflame in a bbq grill in a backyard in Charlottesville, Virginia. Now I am an archivist, fighting to save the materials of history. I don’t really regret either decision.