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Online Archive for WWII

World History Teachers Blog

Here is a cool new online archive of 20th-century resources surrounding Winston Churchill. The archive includes primary sources such as images, cartoons, and documents. One of the most interesting parts of the archives is the investigations of significant issues designed for high school students.

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WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers

Women's History Network

First Call for Papers Womens History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections.

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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

Anthropology News

When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value. The ability to preserve history is a form of power, and that power is rarely in the hands of the public. But migration is never neutral.

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The Geometry of Memory: How Knots Carry the Weight of Human History

Anthropology.net

By analyzing 338 distinct knots from archaeological archives and museum collections, they discovered a surprisingly stable repertoire. link] — Explores cultural phylogenetics through folk narratives, analogous to the methods applied to knot histories. The phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood. PLOS ONE , 8(11), e78871. Eronen, J.

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Spain’s Move to Decolonize Its Museums Must Continue

Sapiens

Spain has a deep and far-reaching colonial history, particularly in Latin America. The claim that Spain’s imperialism isn’t true colonization reflects a reluctance to confront the darker aspects of the country’s history, which involved widespread exploitation, violence, and cultural erasure across continents.

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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

At NCHE conferences , for example, a glance at the program reveals that most sessions focus on an important moment or a major problem in history and offer a strategy to present it in a new way. This writing tends to be engaging, brief, and pointed, relating history to current concerns, and spanning political perspectives.

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CUNY Digital History Archive: Call for Proposals

ASHP CML

The CUNY Digital History Archive, co-administered by ASHP/CML and the MinaRees Library at the CUNY Graduate Center, is seeking proposals for curatedcollections to feature on its website. We invite proposals that highlightunderrepresented aspects of CUNYs history and contributions to the historicalrecord.