Kennedy’s killing was almost immediately folded into a narrative structure that had already surfaced in popular culture as well as politics, a mode of storytelling that...
Larry Appelbaum, a music archivist who over a long career at the Library of Congress helped make it a leading center for research into the history...
One bit of footage shows issues of Film Culture magazine, which Mekas started in 1954 with his brother Adolfas, rolling from a printing press. Several of...
The archives of The New Yorker, housed at the New York Public Library, consist of more than 2,500 boxes of manuscripts, letters, page proofs, cartoons, art,...
Memories fade. Documentation disappears. Scenes vanish. When you’re busy creating a world, you don’t always think about how to preserve it for history. So old fliers...
THE TROUBLE OF COLOR: An American Family Memoir, by Martha S. Jones When Martha S. Jones was a student at SUNY New Paltz, she took a...
Three book events at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta were abruptly canceled late this week, raising questions about whether leadership changes at...
Many authors dream of having their notes, drafts and scraps preserved forever in a prestigious literary archive. But not Amy Tan. Until recently, she had left...
In December 1999, around her 65th birthday, Joan Didion started writing a journal after sessions with her psychiatrist. Over the next year or so, she kept...
The archives of the man behind the tagline “Live From New York” is on its way to Texas. Lorne Michaels, the creator of “Saturday Night Live,”...
