Chapman University: 11,000 Wartime Letters Donated to Chapman’s Center for American War Letters. “A major donation is expanding the collection Chapman University’s nationally recognized The Center for American War Letters. More than 11,000 wartime letters were recently entrusted to the Center by Alabama lawyer and historian Max Pope. The collection, spanning from the Civil War to Vietnam, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/18/chapman-university-11000-wartime-letters-donated-to-chapmans-center-for-american-war-letters/

AsAmNews: Denshō and Internet Archive to launch new collection next week. “On Wednesday, July 23, at noon (PST), Denshō and the Internet Archive will launch a new online collection of over 100 films that document the forced removal and incarceration of the Japanese Americans during World War II.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/18/asamnews-densho-and-internet-archive-to-launch-new-collection-next-week/

WHYY: ‘The Revolutionary City’ gives everyone access to original documents of Philly residents living through the war. “The revolutionary moment that gave birth to the United States 250 years ago had many stories. A new online archive aims to bring tens of thousands of them to life. A group of Philadelphia-area historical organizations are pooling their archives into ‘The Revolutionary […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/09/whyy-the-revolutionary-city-gives-everyone-access-to-original-documents-of-philly-residents-living-through-the-war/

TVP World: Horrors of Nazis’ Łódź Ghetto published in online ‘encyclopedia’ 80 years after creation. “History has come full circle with the digitized publication of a ‘lexicon of the Łódź Ghetto,’ a project originally initiated in 1943 by a group of Jewish intellectuals trapped behind the walls of the second-largest Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/30/tvp-world-horrors-of-nazis-lodz-ghetto-published-in-online-encyclopedia-80-years-after-creation/

Talk of the Sound: Westchester Unveils Rare Revolutionary War Accounts. “The Westchester County Historical Society has released a digitized collection of 1,100 pages of eyewitness accounts from the American Revolution, titled ‘Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews.’ The compilation, now accessible on the Westchester County Archives Digital […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/24/talk-of-the-sound-westchester-unveils-rare-revolutionary-war-accounts/

#NationalLibraryWeek (month, why not?) Day 18/Question of the Month: What does a #specialcollection worker do? They are #teachers who work with students, researchers, reporters, & board members, evangelizing the use of #primarysources across curricula and needs.

#NationalLibraryWeek (month, why not?) Day 13/Question of the Month: What does a #specialcollection worker do? #InformationLiteracy, or the thrill that is sharing with students how to work with #primarysources.

Someone managed to get a call for freedom of speech and assembly (but with unlikely claim that Wang Jingwei was on board) into front page of the 30 March, 1945 (!!) issue of Shenbao in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. In article calling for following Sun Yat-sen’s legacy. https://baokan.pages.dev/shenbao/1945/1945%20-%2089%20-%204925499?view=view-hsplit #histodons #china #primarysources

I’m at the National Council on Public History conference in Montreal https://ncph.org/conference/2025-annual-meeting/

In the session on Collaborative Management of Folklife & Oral History Archives

Local Learning: National Network for Folk Arts in Education https://locallearningnetwork.org/

Have you explored the Primary Source Sets available from the Digital Public Library of America?

#DPLA #DigitalPublicLibraryofAmerica #libraries #PrimarySources
#BHM #HBM2025 #BlackHistoryMonth #Free #Digital

https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/incidents-in-the-life-of-a-slave-girl-by-harriet-jacobs

Black Joy & Resilience highlights #primarysources that document Black life - texts, letters, photos, and objects. Your job is to let us know if you find joy or resilience - or both! - in what you see. For example, here are church hats, c. 1930-1940, from the collections of the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum.

For my #introduction, I work in #publichistory, uploading to #Wikipedia links to #primarysources relevant to #Canada, grouped by year. It is a long-term project I call "YYYY in Canada."

The version of YYYY in Canada on historian.social samples my uploaded links to original documents regarding historical events in or affecting what is now Canada. These "events" range from wars to what's for sale in the stores. Links are grouped by year -- the YYYY might be 1795 or 1942 or whenever (to 1950).

Scanned and posted another issue of the Hong Kong magazine 家庭與婦女 (Aug, 1964) to IA. Several pieces on Singapore/Malaysia are a reminder that a significant proportion of their readership was there (the issue originally found in Singapore). https://archive.org/details/jiating-yu-funv-1964.8.25-n-65 #china #hongkong #primarysources

Really fantastic collection of mostly Chinese and Malay language sources here related to labour and political movements in Singapore and the Malay peninsula. http://xingmarenmin.com/ #primarysources

I picked up some old magazines during my last trip to Singapore. I've scanned this 1957 issue of the Hong Kong magazine 好家庭 and posted it to Internet Archive. I have more I'll post, as IA is recovering from recent attacks and upgrades but still a bit slow. #china #primarysources

https://archive.org/details/hao-jiating-1957.2

I see that Internet Archive, despite their challenges of late, now has a few dozen issues of the pro-PRC China Monthly Review from 1950-1953. https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A(china+monthly+review)&and[]=year%3A[1949+TO+1955]

Looking about at sources related to Global Maoism, I didn't realize that "The Crusader" newsletter (1963-9) by Robert Williams is available on marxists.org: https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1960-1970/crusader/index.htm

I have one of the issues myself.

The US military government in Korea (1945-1948) left behind a nice copy of the Seoul (Keijō) Japanese colonial period telephone book from 1944, together with their own 1947 and 1948 occupation government additions #histodons #primarysources #korea https://archive.org/details/telephone-directory-1944-1947-1948

For students studying early post Mao China and only working with English language primary sources, the United States Foreign Broadcast Information Service materials are fun way to explore events day by day in China. Over 2,500 of these daily reports from late 1970s to early 1990s are on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/fbis-reports-peoples-republic-china?sort=date