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Citational practices function as a form of academic gatekeeping. To create a more inclusive scholarship, authors must consciously commit to embracing the contributions of all researchers, including amateurs. I base my case on Mildred Crowl Martin's biography of Donaldina Cameron, a New Zealand-born moral reformer in San Francisco's Chinatown. Martin undertook extensive original research during the late 1960s, and materials she compiled form the basis for an archival collection at Stanford University that researchers still consult today. However, Martin also admitted to incorporating a 'few fictionalized scenes' into her biography, and because she wrote for a popular audience, Martin omitted references in her texts. These two decisions left her vulnerable to charges of amateurism. Nonetheless, more than fifty monographs, book chapters, and journal articles from the 1980s to the present cited her biography. This success makes a fascinating case study for deriving research practices that fulfil our intellectual debts to all predecessors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ian Milligan's History in the Age of Abundance? How the Web Is Transforming Historical Research (2019) presents and interrogates the challenges and opportunities that born-digital materials have for historians. Milligan argues that historians who wish to grapple with the archived internet need to think much more aggressively about engaging with digital methods and tools that can complement and extend the well-honed practices of close reading with approaches that can help analyze the vast and often unstructured archives of internet data. In this AHR Review Roundtable, three historians—Jo Guldi, Tim Hitchcock, and Michelle Moravec, all of whom incorporate digital approaches and concerns into their work—engage with a set of questions developed by Digital Scholarship Librarian Daniel J. Story, to discuss Milligan's treatment of the digital archive of the web and its implications for historians' work. Milligan offers a response to these insights and critiques, emphasizing the need for the historical discipline to change from within and build upon its valuable qualities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I reflect on the process of conducting historical research in digital archives from a feminist perspective. After reviewing issues that arose in conjunction with the British Library's digitisation of the feminist magazine Spare Rib in 2013, I offer three questions researchers should consider before consulting materials in a digital archive. Have the individuals whose work appears in these materials consented to this? Whose labour was used and how is it acknowledged? What absences must be attended to among an abundance of materials? Finally, I suggest that researchers should draw on the existing body of scholarship about these issues by librarians and archivists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article investigates feminist performance art that attempted to explore ancient matriarchal, goddess-centered religions, focusing on "The Malta Project" by performance artists Anne Gauldin and Cheri Gaulke. Topics include a discussion of work that contrasts the cyborg and the goddess; goddess worship, pre-historical matriarchy, and the repression of women and female sexuality; and a discussion of the historical accuracy of the performance.

The article offers information on manifestos related to genre of feminist. Information related to evidences for historians writing about liberation of women is also presented. It details regarding documents that are generally labeled as manifestos and also serve as evidence for historians writing about women's liberation.

The article discusses the topographies of anti-nuclear art in the cold war in Los Angeles, California. It mentions the impacts of the bomb on manifestations of culture includes literature, art and film into the political and diplomatic services during the cold war. It notes on the influences of aesthetics dominated by major institutions and with a street life of the European cities. It also highlights the social impacts of nuclear freeze initiatives in Los Angeles.

An introduction is presented which discusses various reports within the issue on topics including feminist art, communities of women artists, and art in Israel during the 1970s.