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The Trump Papers

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 18, 2021

President Donald Trump examines a fire truck from Wisconsin-based manufacturer Pierce on the South Lawn during a "Made in America" product showcase event at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 17, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Olivier Douliery (Photo credit should read OLIVIER...

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The Tenuous Nature of Online Archives

By Erik Loomis

On September 1, 2016

If historians are going to keep writing awesome political histories and other histories, we are going to need access to primary sources. Increasingly those primary sources are online. But as.

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Will the Internet Be the Archive of the Future?

By Erik Loomis

On October 28, 2015

As a historian, everything about the internet concerns me. There are two reasons for this. First, the rush to get rid of books (my friend's school is shredding them if.