why delete anything from the current historical record if it costs so little save it
Maybe if nothing is deleted the organization and classification of the huge amount of data could take more work than the critical analyses of it.
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- Oct 2017
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historians with interests ranging from ancient Mesopotamia to the post-Cold War world have enthusiastically embraced the web
Web has given historians a public platform in which niche material can be more easily accessed by interested parties.
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evidence of an environment that imposednarrow gender roles
It's fascinating the information an archive can inadvertently reveal.
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giving one’s game away”
It sounds like there's something to hide. Does this mean in the past people may have been reluctant to reveal the mechanics of archiving?
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or the built and improvised paths wetake as
What are examples of built and improvised paths?
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- Sep 2017
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both repositories and sites of translat
Which is great because discourse is sparked when trying to translate and classify pieces, but at the same time settling on one meaning, or the most important meaning of a work puts it in a box.
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Hanna and the Riot Grrrl movement.
I sadly did not know anything about Hanna and the Riot Grrrl movement until this class. I'm pretty surprised since this movement was so significant in redefining what feminism could be.
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however, is an invariably difficult task because the critic must reconstruct all the people, forces, and conditions that shape the field at any given time
To "reconstruct the people, forces, and conditions that shape the field," wouldn't one pull from the the most genealogically accurate place, like an archive? It's interesting to see how much power an archive can have.
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contemporary theorizing on the archive has emphasized the archive’s status as a historiographic rather than a preservationist technology
I wonder if there is any way archives can be used to predict future social and political trends.
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who much preferred the less radicaltactics of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association
Were petitions counted as a preferred tactic for President Wilson?
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we could go even further back to prehistorictimes in Mesopotamia
Going way back to prehistoric times is really interesting because recent studies have shown that our male and female ancestors were considered equals. It wasn't until the invention of the plow that sexual inequality became prevalent. One could say we are moving forward towards the past.
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