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Isaiah West Taber - Nevada Fall, Yosemite Valley, California, 1887

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Bach House (1915) in Chicago, IL, USA, by Frank Lloyd Wright

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Black River Falls, Wisconsin, USA, 2011. All images from 'Some Say Ice', published by Mack © Alessandra Sanguinetti/Magnum Photos.

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i am a biological machine that turns cold cans of Campbell’s soup into shareholder value and nude selfies

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Ernst Haas - September in New York, 1962

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from what i've observed, i do think there is some pressure for women in not explicitly feminist leftist circles to affect a kind of "cool girl" posture for the benefit of the men in the movement

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same as it ever was!!!

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What do historians mean when they say "archive"? One archivist makes the case for a more precise use of the word.

It is a shame to fight over terminology, especially when there is a perfectly accurate and precise term that could be used: personal collections. Not only is “personal collections” more accurate, in my experience it also draws students’ attention to a number of questions that they don’t ask about the term “archive.” When I discuss personal or special collections with students, they begin asking questions that “archive” does not inspire, such as: Collected by whom? Collected why? For what purpose? These are the questions we are trying to teach as historians.

As many historians currently use the word “archives,” they seem to imply that an archive is the natural state in which primary sources arrange themselves after being discarded or left by their creators. It creates the false impression that there is little to no work that goes into making primary sources available to researchers, and—more dangerously—that archives are even a neutral or unmoderated space. When archives and the historical record are used interchangeably in this way, we are unable to see what might be missing.