Newspapers are notoriously difficult documents to preserve. Newsprint is, by definition, a low-cost and non-archival paper. That means it’s all too easy for the history contained in those newspapers – particularly smaller publications without the resources to house a dedicated archive – to be lost. “Unless they were microfilmed or someone digitized them, chances are …
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University of Michigan-Flint Archive Collaborates to Digitize Flint’s Historical Black Newspapers
Newspapers are notoriously difficult documents to preserve. Newsprint is, by definition, a low-cost and non-archival paper. That means it’s all too easy for the history contained in those newspapers – particularly smaller publications without the resources to house a dedicated archive – to be lost. “Unless they were microfilmed or someone digitized them, chances are …
Genealogy Project Gives Native Hawaiians Access to 7,300 Pages of Rare Archival Records
Genealogical research out of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is offering Native Hawaiians an opportunity to reconnect with their ancestral roots. The Moʻopono Project, which launched in 2021, is in the process of digitizing thousands of pages of moʻokūʻauhau, or genealogy material, dating back to the mid-1800s. This includes material from the Kingdom era’s Board …