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Zimbabwe's Hanging Tree
On December 8, 2011, newspapers in Zimbabwe – and Zimbabwe’s diasporas – reported that an unmarked tree in the middle of a busy street in the capital, Harare, had been accidentally knocked down by a city council van.
[title] image Voices of India's Partition, Part V
Professor Mohammad Amin is a distinguished professor of History who spent his entire career in St. Stephen’s College, one of the founding colleges of Delhi University.
[title] image Voices of India's Partition, Part IV
Professor Masood ul Hasan was born in Moradabad in 1928.
[title] image Voices of India's Partition, Part III
Professor Irfan Habib is probably the best-known professor in Aligarh.
[title] image Voices of India's Partition, Part II
In 2009, I spent five months living at the Aligarh Muslim University in the town of Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India.
[title] image Sounds of the Past #2
Anyone interested in early sound recordings can find a treasure trove at the Library of Congress website. 
[title] image Sounds of the Past
Interested in popular music and the music industry in the early twentieth century? The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara has built perhaps the most useful archive on the planet for you. 
[title] image Radio & Community
We learn to listen before we learn to read and we speak long before we learn to write. Most archives, however, are built to store printed pages, maps, personal letters, diaries, logbooks, notebooks, and manuscripts.
[title] image Voices of India's Partition, Part I
During the summer of 2005 I embarked on my first research trip. I had recently taken a class on oral history methodology and was eager to put my newly acquired skills to use. My research focuses on a tumultuous time in the history of the Indian subcontinent: the 1947 events that gave India its independence and created the new state of Pakistan.
[title] image LBJ and Vietnam: A Conversation
Why did the United States choose to fight a major war in Vietnam? The question has bedeviled scholars almost since President Lyndon Johnson made the decision in 1965.