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Curators from the Smithsonian will be diving for balloons, scooping up signs and hoping to score some hot dish at the #DNC this week.

We talked to three of them about how they select items to be used in the future to explain what's going on now (republished on @medium) https://medium.com/@ConversationUS/how-smithsonian-curators-scavenge-political-conventions-to-explain-the-present-to-the-future-d90a8cb99f80 #News #USPolitics #DNC2024 @histodons

THE PRIZE PAPERS

"Thousands of records documenting daily lives around the globe in the time of the European Expansion, Colonialism, and Resistance."

"The aim of the German-British Prize Papers Project is the complete digitization and sorting of the Prize Papers including the preservation of the collection’s material, the initial and in-depth cataloguing, the creation of research-oriented metadata and finally the presentation of the digital copies and the metadata in an open access research database. The portal development reflects our continuous engagement with developments in the field of Digital Humanities. We also pursue various research projects, and we cooperate with numerous international researchers and research institutions working on the Prize Papers and in project-related areas."

#ThePrizePapers #Europe #History #OpenAccess #Archives #Digitization

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https://www.prizepapers.de/

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/23/your-wife-wants-to-see-you-letters-seized-by-18th-century-privateers-opened-for-first-time

The #Oppenheimer movie is a triumph of the American narrative of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A story entirely told from the perpetrator's perspective. No voice of the victim. An obsession with the brilliance of manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.

#Hiroshima #Nagasaki #nuclear #ManhattanProject @histodons #histodons

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/the-american-narrative-of-hiroshima-is-a-statue-that-must-be-toppled/