1. Activist archiving in Toronto
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   People gather in Toronto to discuss what many hope will grow into a movement for archiving grassroots histories.
2. Archiving With May Day Rooms
   From the Marx Memorial Library to Cold Bath Fields
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   In our day, as the traces of our radical movements are being thrown into rubbish pits, as state sponsored “austerity” demands the commodification of every inch of space, and with sinister intent destroys the evidence of our past, its joys, its victories. Clear out the closets, empty the shelves, toss out the old footage, shred the underground press, pulverize the brittle, yellowing documents! Thus neo-liberalism organizes the transition from the old to the new; they must silence alternatives.
3. The Broken Spears
   The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1962
   Translated selections of Nahuatl-language accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
4. Canada: A People's History website
   Resource Type: Website
   
5. The Case for Grassroots Archives
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
6. Celebrate People's History
   The Poster Book of Resistrance and Revolution
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2010
   Since 1998, Josh MacPhee has commissioned and produced over 100 posters by over 80 artists that pay tribute to revolution, racial justice, women’s rights, queer liberation, labor struggles, and creative activism and organizing. Celebrate People’s History presents these essential moments — acts of resistance and great events in an often hidden history of human and civil rights struggles — as a visual tour through decades and across continents.
7. Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
   Introduction to the December 17, 2017 issue of Other Voices
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2017
   Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memories and the past. That's the nature of capitalism, especially the speeded-up hypercapitalism of today. The past is useless: profits are made by getting rid of the old and replacing it with something new.
8. Connexions Library: History Focus Page
   Resource Type: Website
   Published: 2012
   Selected articles, books, documents and other resources on historical topics.
9. Connexions Mandate and Statement of Values
   Resource Type: Article
   A succinct summary of the Connexions project and the values that guide it.
10. Connexions: Perserving and Sharing People's History
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A short overview of the Connexions project, including a statement of The Case for Grassroots Archives and the Connexions statement of values.
11. Fear of the People's History
    England's Two Countries
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    England is two countries. One is dominated by London, the other remains in its shadow. They were another nation with a different history, different loyalties, different humour, even different values. At the heart of this was the politics of class.
12. Galeano, Eduardo
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist (1940-2015). His best-known works are Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) and Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, 1982–6). "I'm a writer," the author once said of himself, "obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."
13. Grassroots archive information sheet
    About your archive - collection - resource centre - library
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Connexions is working on a project to help network grassroots archives and collections of materials about activist and radical history. If you have a collection of social justice materials in your basement/locker, etc., and would like to participate in an exploration of co-operative archiving and/or searching for shared space, please fill out this form and email it to Connexions.
14. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
15. Librarians and Palestine
    An Interview with Vani Natarajan
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Working to preserve Palestinian records and memory in the face of deliberate destruction by Israel.
16. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
    Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
17. The Names You'll Never Know
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2021
    Americans have been killing civilians since before there was a United States. At home and abroad, civilians -- Pequots, African Americans, Cheyenne and Arapaho, Filipinos, Haitians, Japanese, Germans, Koreans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, Yemenis, and Somalis, among others -- have been shot, burned, and bombed to death. So many civilians have been obliterated, incinerated, or "shredded" in America’s forever wars. Who in the United States remembers them? Who here ever knew of them in the first place?
18. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2014
    A newsletter with news and articles about current issues, as well as news from the realm of grassroots archives and people's history. Also featuring selected items from the Connexions Calendar, Seeds of Fire, book, film and website of the week, and news about the Connexions project.
19. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 3, 2014
    Surveillance
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2014
    The first issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter. Topic of the week is Surveillance. Articles on climate politics, 21st-century land grabs, and the destruction of Canada's science libraries. Plus items from the Connexions Calendar and Seeds of Fire.
20. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
    Ukraine
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
21. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015
    Labour Day issue
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular education, and the Greek crisis.
22. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
    Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
23. People's Archive of Rural India
    Resource Type: Organization
    Recording the everyday lives of everyday people.
24. People's History, Memory & Archives
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A gateway to resources on people's history and grassroots archives.
25. A People's History of the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    Howard Zinn attempts to present the history of the United States through the perspectives of common people rather than political and economic elites.
26. Radical Digressions 6
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    
27. Resistance and Resolve in Russia: Memorial HRC
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    An account of the current climate for political dissent in Russia, describing the activities of and challenges faced by the Memorial Human Rights Centre, a Russian NGO.
28. Seeds of Fire
    A People's Chronology
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
29. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
    Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
30. South Sudan: Volunteers Gather Names of South Sudan's Uncounted War Dead
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The names of 5,000 victims of violence appear in the "Remembering the Ones We Lost" project, a memorial to people who have died in seven decades of conflict.The project invites witnesses to submit details of killings or disappearances through an online form or by text message, the information is then collated by volunteers.
31. The Studs Terkel Radio Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Over the course of his 45 years on WFMT radio, Studs Terkel discussed every aspect of 20th-century life with movers, shakers, artists, celebrities, and working folks. From civil rights to labor to jazz, his work spanned an impressive array of topics and figures. These
    enchanting, historically-significant interviews are now being made available online.
32. The Studs Terkel Radio Archive
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Over the course of his 45 years on WFMT radio, Studs Terkel discussed every aspect of 20th-century life with movers, shakers, artists, celebrities, and working folks.
    From civil rights to labour to jazz, his work spanned an impressive array of topics and figures. These enchanting, historically-significant interviews - which have been largely inaccessible to the public are now being made available online.
33. Where Are They? The Disappeared: When Remembering is a Political Act of Resistance
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2021
    Every day, people disappear in many parts of the world. Some of these disappearances are investigated by police and the family of the disappeared. But too often the perpetrator is not a criminal or a gang, but rather the police or other agents of a nation state or a government.
34. Whose history? Why the People's History Museum is vital
    In recent months, high-profile figures have claimed museums should be ‘neutral’ spaces. Thank goodness, then, for the People’s History Museu
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Peoples History Museum also acts as a space for learning and offers a site for new debates to emerge, regularly allocating space for community exhibitions and contemporary political discussion. It also exhibits documents from recent events and contemporary unions, as it continues to build its collections.

Experts on People's History in the Sources Directory

1. Ulli Diemer