Uncovering the Past

UMD's Alworth Institute and the Baeumler Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration Committee will host a talk by Associate Professor Deborah Petersen-Perlman, UMD Department of Communication, on Thursday, April 5 at noon in the rotunda of the Kathryn A. Martin Library. This event is free and open to all.

Petersen-Perlman will discuss research she's done at the Arizona Historical Society on the Japanese Internment Camp at the Gila Indian Reservation. Specifically, she'll talk about what ephemera found in the archives--letters, memos, high school annuals and "newspapers"-- says about organizational structure and social issues in the camp. She’ll also talk about some of the challenges she’s encountered in doing this research.

Alworth Institute
The Alworth Institute was established in 1987 by the  Alworth family to  commemorate the life and interests of Royal D. Alworth, Jr. The Institute aims to engage students, staff and the wider public in open discussion, for educational, social and democratic purposes, of a wide range of international issues and of  their domestic implications. For more information, visit the Alworth Institute website.

Baeumler Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration
The mission of the Baeumler Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration is to provide resources for lectures, seminars, and presentations dedicated to informing and educating people about the Holocaust, its victims, causes, consequences, lessons, and memory. For more information, visit the Baeumler Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration website.