War of the Worlds Letters
A digital library collection from the University of Michigan, The Richard Wilson – Orson Welles Papers preserves 1,349 letters sent to the New York City office of Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre on the Air after the original CBS Radio Network broadcast of War of the Worlds on Sunday, October 30, 1938. It was transcribed by volunteers and […]
End of Term web archive
The End of Term Web Archive is a project which saves U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations. Currently available are resources from 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020 and it is now archiving the end of 2024 term websites.
Brookings Institution regulatory tracker
The regulatory tracker enables researchers to track regulatory changes in the second Trump administration. It is possible to sign up to regular email newsletters. It tracks executive and other orders. Gives updates by department and status. The tracker is discussed in this article.
National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection of Charleston Slave Badges
The collection includes 146 rare badges dating as far back as 1804. These were used to ‘label’ enslaved people released out for labour in the region and as such form an important part of slave history. The website has images and essays providing contextual history.
Russell Lee coal mining exhibits
From the US National archives historic photographs of working lives in the USA. The 1946 coal mining survey gave Americans new insight to the conditions that miners and their families lived in. They also include images related to segregation.
American women making history and culture
The American Women Making History and Culture, 1963-1982 (“American Women”) collection on the internet archive includes Pacifica Radio Archives’ holdings from the five Pacifica radio stations (KPFA- Berkeley, CA; KPFK- Los Angeles, CA; WBAI- New York, NY; WPFW- Washington, DC; and KPFT- Houston, TX). They mainly relate to second wave feminism from 1960s-1980s and have fascinating interviews […]
US election data sets
Covering 2000-2016. Recently released by Library of Congress data package on data.labs.loc.gov/packages/, with associated new resources to help researchers understand and use the data. The new data package includes enhanced documentation explaining the contents of the dataset and how it was created, as well as metadata for candidate campaign sites extracted from the United States Elections Web […]
Civil Rights cold case portal
Recently launched by the US National Archives this site provides access to records of unsolved racially-motivated crimes during the 20th century in the USA. During the Civil Rights era, thousands of racially-motivated crimes went unsolved. In many cases, local, state and/or federal authorities examined evidence, conducted interviews, and compiled detailed investigations into these crimes and violations. […]
AI and copyright infringements
Wired AI copyright case tracker Computer magazine Wired is maintaining a visualization of all the AI cases in USA. The site offers a limited number of free articles for subscribers.
National AIDS Memorial Digital collection
Recently released by the Library of Congress this website provides images of the quilt created to commemorate American lives lost as well as thousands of digital letters and photos related to the lives of the people commemorated on it and background about the grassroots project which led to its creation and growth.
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