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Why Digital Technologies and Oral History Belong Together

Oral History in the Digital Age logo The Library of Congress through The Signal: Digital Preservation blog recently posted an article about Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries. In the post, Boyd talks about using digital technology to collect, curate, distribute, and preserve oral histories. Boyd recently partnered with MATRIX on ...

Vietnam Project Archive Receives Attention from the Lansing State Journal

The Lansing State Journal recently posted an article entitled MSU, the CIA— and Vietnam. This article contains portions of interviews with the primary investigators for the MSU Group Vietnam Project Archive, a digital preservation and access collaboration between the University Archives & Historical Collections at MSU and MATRIX. This project, which has received significant NEH ...

New Episode of Africa Past and Present Focuses on the Democratic Republic of Congo

Thomas Turner's book The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth, and Reality

Episode 63 of Africa Past and Present was released Wednesday, May 16 2012. The episode features a conversation with Professor Tom Turner, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Country Specialist at Amnesty International USA.

Entitled “Noise and Silence, War and Peace in the Politics of DR Congo,” the discussion focuses on The Congo Wars and their complex political, economic and international dimensions. Professor Turner also underscores the obstacles to peace, as well as the ambiguities of the “Kony 2012” campaign. The audio file, in its entirety, can be found here.

Africa Past and Present is hosted by Michigan State University historians Peter Alegi and Peter Limb and produced by MATRIX. Subscribe to the podcast on the Africa Past and Present website and on iTunes.

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