Examples of timelines and archives:
Texas After Violence: https://texasafterviolence.org/
Texas After Violence Project is a public memory archive that fosters deeper understandings of the impacts of state violence. Their mission is to help build power with directly impacted communities, centering their dignity, agency, and expertise to cultivate restorative and transformative justice.
South Asian American Digital Archive: https://www.saada.org/
SAADA creates a more inclusive society by giving voice to South Asian Americans through documenting, preserving, and sharing stories that represent their unique and diverse experiences. The SAADA has been documenting, preserving, and sharing stories of South Asian Americans for over 15 years.
The Blackivists: https://www.theblackivists.com/
The Blackivists provide professional expertise on cultural heritage archiving and preservation practices to document historically underdocumented communities. By helping individuals and organizations inventory, document, and preserve all aspects of humanity, we aim to empower people to use the past to speculate on or create through direct action radical, liberatory and inclusive futures for us all.
Weaving Voices: https://sites.smith.edu/weaving-voices-archives/
The Weaving Voices Archives Project purpose is to document and make public the histories of students of color on Smith College’s campus, with a focus on recording past and present student activism and promoting communal healing. Carro Hua ’13 and Andrea Kang ’13, founders of the Weaving Voices Open Mics and Senior Monologues, started the project after a series of racist incidents and student responses in Spring 2012. They began by gathering oral histories: centering student of color voices, building institutional memory, and planting a seed that has grown into this still-expanding archive.
Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal: https://plateauportal.libraries.wsu.edu/about
The Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal is a collaboration between the Spokan Tribe of Indians, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, the Nimíipuu (Nez Perce) Tribe, and the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation at Washington State University.
The Portal implements the collaborative curation method designed and sustained through the CDSC. Using Mukurtu CMS as the platform for the Portal allows tribes to determine culturally appropriate access to their cultural heritage and knowledge. The materials in the Portal have been selected, vetted, and curated by tribal representatives from each tribe.
Resources on timelines, digital activism and resistance, anarchic archives and more:
Amato, Rebecca, et al. “Radical Is a Process: Public History Pedagogy in Urban Universities.”
Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism, edited by Denise D. Meringolo, Amherst College Press, 2021, pp. 325–60. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.12366495.16.
Arriaga, Eduard. “Afrolatin@ Digital Humanities or Rethinking Inclusion in the Digital
Humanities”, Digital Humanities in Latin America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020,122-136.
Bernardo, Shane, et al. “What Are the Roots of Your Radical Oral History Practice?” Radical
Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism, edited by Denise D. Meringolo, Amherst College Press, 2021, pp. 119–52. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.12366495.9.
Deathridge, Kristen Baldwin. “Getting to the Heart of Preservation: The Place of Grassroots
Efforts in the Contemporary Preservation Movement.” Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism, edited by Denise D. Meringolo, Amherst College Press, 2021, pp. 555–74. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.12366495.25.
Fabos, Bettina. “The Trouble with Iconic Images: Historical Timelines and Public Memory.”
Visual Communication Quarterly Vol. 21, 2014.
Fernández L’Hoeste, Héctor and Rodríguez, Juan Carlos. “In and Out of Digital Humanities:
Nations, Networks and Practices in Latinx America”, Digital Humanities in Latin America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020, 1-20.
Finn, Andrew. “Archival Activism: Independent and Community Led Archives, Radical Public
History and the Heritage Professions.” InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 2011.
Jiménez, Carlos. “Radio Indígena and Indigenous Mexican Farmworkers in Oxnard, California”,
Digital Activism, Community Media, and Sustainable Communication in Latin America, edited by C. Martens et al., Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2020, 27-52.
Kelland, Lara. “Unintentional Public Historians: Collective Memory and Identity Production in
the American Indian and LGBTQ Liberation Movements.” Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism, edited by Denise D. Meringolo, Amherst College Press, 2021, pp. 503–24. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.12366495.22.
Koro, Tanya, et. al. “Nga Haerenga o Le Laumei: Pathways to Cultural Protection Through
Language Preservation.” Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work Issue 22(4), 2010.
Medrado, Andrea et al. “Favela Digital Activism: The Use of Social Media to Fight Oppression
and Injustice in Brazil” Digital Activism, Community Media, and Sustainable Communication in Latin America, edited by C. Martens et al., Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2020, 177-201.
Millaleo Hernandez, Salvador Andres. “Digital Activism and the Mapuche Nation in Chile”,
Digital Activism, Community Media, and Sustainable Communication in Latin America, edited by C. Martens et al., Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2020, 221-243.
Martens, Cheryl et al. “Open Knowledge, Decolonial, and Intercultural Approaches to
Communication Technologies for Mobility: The Achur Kara Solar Project”, Digital Activism, Community Media, and Sustainable Communication in Latin America, edited by C. Martens et al., Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2020, 97-123.
Rosenzweig, Roy. “Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era.” American
Historical Review, University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Vierke, Ulf. “Archive, Art, and Anarchy: Challenging the Praxis of Collecting and Archiving:
From the Topological Archive to the Anarchic Archive.” African Arts, Vol. 48, No. 2, AFRICAN ARTH AND THE ARCHIVE, UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center, 2015, pp. 12-25.