Archive Alive


 

Yves and Katie share the mic with archivists who detail the funniest or most poignant stories they’ve discovered while in the stacks.


GUESTS

Hoke S. Glover III

Writer

Brittany Newberry

Music & Popular Culture Archivist

Tiffany Atwater Lee

Assistant Department Head, Archives Research Center


The solution is to create archetypes within Black history so when Black people are reading Black history, they’re not simply looking at themselves as opposed to whites.
— Hoke S. Glover III, "Archive Alive"
 
Was Johnny Mercer part of time-honored American tradition of stealing from Black people?
— Brittany Newberry, "Archive Alive"
 
To me, what this really signifies is the ability for institutions to see humanity and understand this woman essentially just wanted her husband’s papers, but also...we’re an organization, you can’t just be stealing our papers!
— Tiffany Atwater Lee, "Archive Alive"
 
 

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