Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack : NPR

A visual archive of Jan. 6, 2021, through the lenses of those who were there.

https://apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/  

The Internet Archive has been fighting for 25 years to keep what's on the web from disappearing – and you can help

Why archive? In 2018, President Donald Trump wrongly claimed via Twitterthat Google had promoted on its homepage President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, but not his own. Archived versions of the Google homepage proved that Google had, in fact, highlighted Trump's State of the Union address in the same manner. Multiple news outlets use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine as the source for fact-checking these types of claims, since screenshots alone can be easily altered...

https://theconversation.com/the-internet-archive-has-been-fighting-for-25-years-to-keep-whats-on-the-web-from-disappearing-and-you-can-help-163867

Pope Pius XII: Vatican records show he knew Nazis were killing Jews during Holocaust - The Washington Post

The long-awaited opening of Pope Pius XII’s wartime records lasted only a week before the coronavirus outbreak shut down the Vatican archives. But that was long enough for documents to emerge that reflect badly on the pontiff accused of silence during the Holocaust, according to published reports.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/04/29/vatican-pope-pius-records-holocaust/

Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to Students and the Public | Internet Archive Blogs

To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners. This suspension will run through June 30, 2020, or the end of the US national emergency, whichever is later.
http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/