{"id":1369,"date":"2020-02-18T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/history-department\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2023-04-25T13:41:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T20:41:21","slug":"abbey-buckham-is-aspiring-to-preserve-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-history\/abbey-buckham-is-aspiring-to-preserve-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbey Buckham is aspiring to preserve history"},"content":{"rendered":"
Graduate student Abbey Buckham is aspiring to preserve history, one photograph at a time.<\/p>\n
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It all started with a cardboard box and an email. The email was from Bj\u00f6rn Krondorfer<\/a>, director of the Martin-Springer Institute<\/a>, which is focused on using the lessons of the Holocaust to help promote peace and tolerance. Krondorfer was looking for a graduate student to take on a project archiving an old box full of World War II photos. Abbey Buckham, who is working on a master\u2019s in history<\/a>, was intrigued.<\/p>\n