Topic: preservation

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Preservation in Practice

A cohort of graduate students chose to spend fall break restoring graves as part of a pilot program with the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans and World Monuments Fund.

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Deep Dive in the Jazz Archive

New Orleans jazz is a living, breathing, evolving force, but its origins in the early 20th century require special preservation. That is the job of the Hogan Jazz Archive.

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Earth Beneath Dump Site Offers Clues to Racial Massacre

From Somaliland to El Salvador, Peru to Guatemala, Davette Gadison has brought her passion for justice to her studies in forensic anthropology—drawn to mass gravesites in countries torn apart by civil war.