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Category Archive: Unofficial Archives

The Visual Life of Revolution: Archival and Counter-archival Narratives of Revolt

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Let us begin with two images of the Sudanese uprising. The first you will at once recognize – […]

Leena Habiballa December 19, 2020 archives, media studies, Photography, radical politics, revolution, Sudan, Unofficial Archives

Objects of Hate: Unwanted and Unremoveable

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Your grandfather brought back a copy of Mein Kampf from the frontlines in WWII. No museum wants it. What do you do with it?

E.L. Meszaros July 5, 2019 material culture, memory, Nazism, Unofficial Archives, World War II

Rubles and Juicy Fruit: Touring Russia During the Cold War and Today

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May 1945, just six months after my husband Hal was born, World War II in Europe ended. However, […]

Unofficial Archives April 11, 2018 Cold War, material culture, Russia, Unofficial Archives

ToM’s Unofficial Archives Featured on WordPress Discover

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We were delighted to see one of the first posts in our Unofficial Archives series featured on the […]

Guest March 7, 2018 California, material culture, oral history, prisons, Unofficial Archives

Quilted History

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Quilting, for my family, is all but a lost art, passed down from the matriarch of each family […]

Unofficial Archives December 26, 2017 Georgia, labor, oral history, the South, Unofficial Archives

Grapes of Wrath: Paulina Cabrera’s 1968 Summer

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My aunt Paulina Cabrera and her mother Maria Dolores flirtingly pose and proudly display a bunch of green […]

Unofficial Archives May 4, 2017 agriculture, California, Mexican Americans, Mexico, Unofficial Archives

Mateo’s Coins

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I was fourteen years old when I first heard the story of my great grandfather Mateo Espinosa. My […]

Unofficial Archives April 4, 2017 Mexican Americans, Mexico, Unofficial Archives

A Past Resurfaced: Memories of Survival and Escape from the Khmer Rouge

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In the summer of 2014, my grandma began digging into the old pile of long-forgotten photographs she hoarded […]

Unofficial Archives March 20, 2017 Asia, Asian American history, Asian Americans, human rights, immigration, Unofficial Archives

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