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When teams discover troubling history in archival work

Our team is working on a project that involves digitizing old community records and we discovered some really troubling historical patterns of discrimination, and now we're split on how much context to include because some people think we should just focus on preservation while others think we're whitewashing if we don't address the harm.

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What we've seen

Collective responsibility for historical truth creates tension between preservation and reckoning.

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“Where Are You with Historical consciousness and temporal depth?”

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