This is the first public release of the History Lab's processed version of the Clinton Emails.
Earlier this year, the story broke that Hillary Clinton had kept her work emails her own email account and private server during her tenure as Secretary of State. Clinton voluntarily released emails she and her lawyers deemed "work related" to the State Department, who has been going through them and redacting personal and/or classified information.
The State Department releases batches of the emails it has redacted and declassified each month. They are posted to the State Department FOIA Reading Room site. Currently the October release is the most recent.
The History Lab team has written scripts that download all of the documents from the FOIA site (see description of documents below) and the corresponding JSON metadata from the site's underlying api. We then s