After five years of systematic research, documenting and collecting stories from all over Greece, Istorima, the largest-scale collection of oral history in the country, continues its activity and is enriched with a renewed website with updated series and collections. Its more than 18,000 stories make up a unique archive of oral history and heritage, from every …
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Digital Archive Chronicles Centuries of Black History in Southwestern New Hampshire
A citizen research effort to document the lives of Black residents and other people of color from the last three centuries in the Monadnock Region is now available online. For the last five years, the Historical Society of Cheshire County and Monadnock Center for History and Culture worked with volunteers to collect primary sources, like photos, publications and …
How the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) deals With Digitizing Its Rich Trove of Cultural Heritage Records
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has changed a big part of the American landscape over the years. Established during the Franklin Roosevelt administration, TVA has a large cache of what are known as cultural heritage documents. With the deadline looming to present digitized records to the National Archives and Records Administration, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin checked …