Jennifer Howard

Jennifer Howard

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Archives for archives

July 2024: Uncatalogued

August 30, 2024

An impromptu trip with an old friend to explore the T.S. Eliot/Emily Hale archive at Princeton University, my alma mater.

May newsletter is out

May 12, 2022

Dead Letter Office: In the latest installment of my newsletter I embrace personal archival irresponsibility. (TL:DR: You don’t need to save all your old letters. In fact you might be happier throwing at least some of them out.)  

Making “Accidental Archives” Pop

December 21, 2017

I wrote for Humanities Magazine about Pop Up Archive, a startup (funded in part by NEH) that set out to tackle the problem of how to make archived radio broadcasts, podcasts, and other audio files–“accidental archives”–findable and usable. Lots of interesting work going on in this space. And Apple just bought PUA, which is both a dream… Continue reading »

Recent Writing

  • New Kids’ Books Say Put Down the Phone, Pick Up a Field Recorder
  • “Because of Winn-Dixie” turns 25
  • Teachers Learn the Art of Teaching Civics in a Hot-Button Age

Recent Posts

  • August newsletter: Dogged pursuits
  • June newsletter: Tapping away
  • My college road trip essay

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  • August newsletter: Dogged pursuits
  • June newsletter: Tapping away
  • My college road trip essay
  • Secret gardens
  • Fire, ice, and Feiffer

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