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Digital Archive Review: Age of Revolutions and the Newberry French Pamphlet Collection

March 3, 2021

These reviews discuss two different but connected digital resources: the Age of Revolutions and the Newberry French Pamphlet Collection. Both are important resources for the study of revolutions. Review: Age of Revolutions   The Editors of the Age of Revolutions website describe it as “an Open-Access, Peer-Reviewed Academic Journal,” but the breadth of its features and […]

The Public Archive: Qahvehkhaneh, Reading Iranian Newspapers

July 2, 2018

Millions of tweets and millions of state documents. Intimate oral histories and international radio addresses. Ancient pottery and yesterday’s memes. Historians have access to this immense store of online material for doing research, but what else can we do with it? In Spring 2018, graduate students in the Public and Digital History Seminar at UT […]

Reading Magnum: A Photo Archive Gets a New Life

April 1, 2015

Magnum Photos was formed in 1947, in the wake of the Second World War, by four photographers seeking to retain the rights to their images while working on projects that aligned with their own interests rather than solely responding to commissions from magazines and newspapers. Henri Cartier-Bresson, David “Chim” Seymour, George Rodger, and Robert Capa created a business model that fundamentally changed the practices of photojournalism

A Rebellion Remembered: The Irish Easter Rising’s New Digital Archive

January 23, 2014

Not Even Past is beginning a new weekly series on digital history: The New Archive. Every other week, our Undergraduate Editorial Intern, Charley Binkow, will introduce our readers to the world's most interesting digital archives.

NEP’s Archive Chronicles – Full Series

May 14, 2025

In this page, we bring together the full collection of NEP’s Archive Chronicles! Curated by Associate Editor Camila Ordorica, this series explores archives as affective and historical spaces in their own right, while offering insights into the process of conducting archival work. Each installment provides a unique perspective on the treasures and challenges researchers encounter […]

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: A Brief Guide Through Some Archives in Gaborone and Serowe, Botswana

April 16, 2025

NEP’S Archive Chronicles explores the role archives play in historical research, offering insight into the process of conducting archival work and research. Each installment will offer a unique perspective on the treasures and challenges researchers encounter in archives around the world. NEP’s Archive Chronicles is intended to be both a practical guide and a space […]

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Unexpected Archives. Exploring Student Notebooks at the Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire (IFAN) in Senegal

April 14, 2025

NEP’S Archive Chronicles explores the role archives play in historical research, offering insight into the process of conducting archival work and research. Each installment will offer a unique perspective on the treasures and challenges researchers encounter in archives around the world. NEP’s Archive Chronicles is intended to be both a practical guide and a space […]

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Archives & Blindness

February 11, 2025

NEP’S Archive Chronicles explores the role archives play in historical research, offering insight into the process of conducting archival work and research. Each installment will offer a unique perspective on the treasures and challenges researchers encounter in archives around the world. NEP’s Archive Chronicles is intended to be both a practical guide and a space […]

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Tips for using PARES (Portal de Archivos Estatales)

January 28, 2025

NEP’S Archive Chronicles explores the role archives play in historical research, offering insight into the process of conducting archival work and research. Each installment will offer a unique perspective on the treasures and challenges researchers encounter in archives around the world. NEP’s Archive Chronicles is intended to be both a practical guide and a space […]

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: An experiential approach to the Archive of the Indies

January 20, 2025

NEP’S Archive Chronicles explores the role archives play in historical research, offering insight into the process of conducting archival work and research. Each installment will offer a unique perspective on the treasures and challenges researchers encounter in archives around the world. NEP’s Archive Chronicles is intended to be both a practical guide and a space […]

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