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Archive: December 2014 (12 Posts)

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A New Piece of History: Alan Lomax’s Lost Notes From Haiti

Posted by: Stephen Winick

There’s been a new discovery and new research into Alan Lomax’s fieldwork in the 1930s! On the John W. Kluge Center’s blog Insights, Antony Stewart, British Research Council Fellow at The Kluge Center, describes a notebook recently discovered by AFC’s Alan Lomax curator, Todd Harvey.  The notebook was used by Lomax during his 1936-1937 field …

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Pearl Harbor: As Experienced by Those Who Were There and Some Who Were Not

Posted by: Lisa Taylor

December 7, 2014 will mark 73 years since the infamous attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Americans far and wide felt the collective trauma of the attack, which led to the United States’ entry into World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it, “a date which will live in infamy.” He was …