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Featuring profiles of outreach & advocacy in cultural heritage

Month: November 2019

Posted on November 30, 2019November 30, 2019

Meet Dr. Learotha Williams, Associate Professor of African American and Public History at Tennessee State University, Founder of the North Nashville Heritage Project

by Alex Howard

“The North Nashville Heritage Project taught me that the old lady who fried chicken at the church was just as important as the lawyers who bailed the students who got arrested out of jail,” said Dr. Learotha …

Posted on November 13, 2019November 13, 2019

Fruits in Decay: An exhibit from the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants

by Vanessa Formato

All these fruits are dying. Wisps of grey mold stretch out from the bottom of a sickly, shriveled strawberry. Plums blush an unnatural shade of teal. A pockmarked peach hangs from a branch, the bark discolored, its …

Posted on November 8, 2019

Historic Congressional Cemetery has Gone to the Dogs: How Dog Owners Saved a Historic Cemetery

by Mattie Clear

The Historic Congressional Cemetery has gone to the dogs, in all the best ways. Before the wonders of the Washingtonians and their ingenuity can be appreciated, one must know the story of this small, but important cemetery. …

Posted on November 6, 2019November 6, 2019

The Rainbow Arcade at Schwules Museum

by Jonathan Fryerwood

The RAINBOW ARCADE exhibition hosted at the Schwules Museum in Berlin presented itself as the first major exhibition of queer content in video games. The event ran from December 2018 to May of this year. The project …

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Archives Unboxed is hosted by the fine folks at Simmons College School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), and features profiles of outreach and advocacy work in the broad field of cultural heritage. Blog content is contributed by students in the MLIS graduate program as part of coursework for LIS476: Archives and Cultural Heritage Outreach. This blog was started in Fall 2017 and is managed by students and faculty at Simmons SLIS.

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