This weekly feature is a place to discuss new developments in fields of history and archaeology. This can be newly discovered documents and archaeological sites, recent publications, documents that have just become publicly available through digitization or the opening of archives, and new theories and interpretations.
You know, not a bad news week for archives actually:
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) announced 6 new partnerships which will result in millions of items added. This is very exciting.
A few Edison wax cylinders got the no-touch treatment with a new digitization method
And some really classic Chicago politics kerfuffling over the eventual home of the Obama Presidential Library (Presidential libraries are not really libraries and actually more archives, so that's more archives news.) Obviously I'm not interested in a debate here, but this is one example of how archives are often very much a political tool!
edit: I've also got a big honking list of all the newly available music archival records at the NYPL, would that be of interest to anyone?
Here are some of the history-related links that have been posted on MetaFilter in the past week:
There's been a lot of debate lately about whether two antiquarian booksellers have actually found Shakespeare's annotated dictionary. Antiquarian bookseller Bibliophagist has been keeping track of a lot of the blog posts on it here.
British Pathé has posted thousands more historical videos on their YouTube channel.
On the public history front, Collectors Weekly asks Why Aren't Stories Like '12 Years a Slave' Told at Southern Plantation Museums?.