CLAG member Matt LaFevor, Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Alabama, was mentioned this week in a number outlets about some of his (and his brother’s) work in Cuba. Matthew Lafevor, a geography professor at the University of Alabama, and his brother, David, a history professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, have worked for over a decade to build a digital archive of millions of documents dating back to the Colonial Era.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/01/16/world/americas/ap-cb-cuba-slave-documents.html_r=0&mtrref=undefined&gwh=F04D50B6A3CCEB88BFB84BFD73676A56&gwt=pay

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/academics-race-to-save-rare-colonial-documents-in-cuba/2017/01/16/abf8e846-dba9-11e6-8902-610fe486791c_story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/eltiempolatino/academicos-en-cuba-trabajan-para-salvar-archivos-coloniales/2017/01/16/b979f420-dbcb-11e6-8902-610fe486791c_story.html?utm_term=.6b8eae77159b

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-bc-cb--cuba-slave-documents-20170116-story.html

http://www.dailycommercial.com/news/20170116/academics-race-to-save-rare-colonial-documents-in-cuba/1

http://www.cubaencuentro.com/cuba/noticias/academicos-de-eeuu-digitalizan-documentos-historicos-en-cuba-328377

http://www.hoylosangeles.com/sns-bc-rep-gen-cuba-documentos-de-esclavos-20170116-story.html

http://sipse.com/mundo/academicos-eu-digitalizan-archivos-coloniales-cuba-238884.html