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Breakfast in the Archives!

Unwritten Record

Local ID: 86-G-5G-9, NAID: 522864 ) Every now and then when looking through a box of photographs in our holdings, a new potential “thread” of information will present itself that sparks curiosity for further research on a particular keyword. Check out the National Archives Catalog and see what kind of research you can cook up!

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Introducing Films of State, a Conference on Government Films

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Today I am thrilled to tell you about something we’ve been working on: Films of State, a three day online conference focused on government films and NARA’s holdings, scheduled for April 7-9, 2021. Moving Images at the National Archives And Records Administration. Registration is free and open to all.

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50 Years Makes a Difference! How Film Research Has Changed Since the 1972 Conference on Audiovisual Archives

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You may have heard that the National Archives is partnering with the University of Maryland Cinema and Media Studies Program to present Films of State , an online conference on government-produced moving images (if not, check out my last blog post for more background). Researchers for the most part came to Washington, D.C.,

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Amnesty International creates new global human rights digital archive with Preservica

Preservica

The world’s largest grassroots human rights organization will use Preservica’s active digital preservation platform to create a global archive that will accelerate investigations into human rights violations and protect digital records of significant historical importance to the global movement. Oxford, UK and Boston, MA.

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Archives Records 2019 RMS Annual Meeting

The Schedule

As the current chair of the section, I presented a brief business report of the steering committee’s activities for 2018-2019. In the Other category, Digital Archives Specialist was most common. Academic institutions are by far the largest employer of section members, and about a quarter of us work for some level of government.

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A User’s Guide to World War II-Era Radio in the National Archives

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The National Archives’ extensive holdings of World War II-era radio broadcasts have long been overshadowed by our flashier newsreel holdings. Some of the obstacles presented to placing recording online include rights issues, about which more appears at the end of this post, and the many generations of copies of the original recordings.

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Finding Family in Images of Liberation at Buchenwald

Unwritten Record

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we wanted to share a story that highlights how materials held by the National Archives and Records Administration are used to connect the past with the present. It is rare to locate and positively identify specific people who appear in the footage shot by the US military.