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Matthew Williams

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V-Mail: A Photo-Based Technological Triumph in Wartime Communication

During World War II, the revolutionary V-Mail leveraged cutting-edge microfilm technology to streamline correspondence.

by Matthew Williams via PetaPixel on November 22, 2024

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Newspaper clippings about the Octavius V. Catto.

Lynchings in the North

A project to bring to light the stories of these victims’ lives and to highlight the patterns of racial terror perpetrated across the Northeast and Midwest.

by Rachel L. Swarns via NYU Journalism on September 9, 2023

shovels stuck in black scribbles representing dirt

Eating Dirt, Searching Archives

There are many black afterlives that are yet to be unearthed.

by Endia Hayes via Southern Cultures on July 16, 2021

How Small-Town Newspapers Ignored Local Lynchings

Sherilynn A. Ifill on justice (and its absence) in the 1930s.

by Sherilynn A. Ifill via Literary Hub on September 26, 2018

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