/ Peru Content for UC Davis en /curiosity/blog/how-do-you-safeguard-endangered-peruvian-history <div>&nbsp;</div><p><img alt="archival work" src="https://lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk15406/files/styles/sf_landscape_16x9/public/media/images/ARCHIVAL%20WORK-HISTORY-UCDAVIS-CCP%20ARCHIVE%20PERU-CHARLES%20WALKER.jpg?h=e910c1de&amp;itok=a0_bP645" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="720"></p><div><div><div><p><em>Research team led by Charles Walker, professor of history at UC Davis, (not pictured) and Ruth Borja Santa Cruz (center), professor of history at the University of San Marcos in Peru, digitizes documents in Peru. (Courtesy/ Charles Walker)</em></p></div></div></div> July 09, 2024 - 12:40pm Karen Michele Nikos /curiosity/blog/how-do-you-safeguard-endangered-peruvian-history /curiosity/news/historians-digitize-endangered-peruvian-archive <p>For years, the historical papers of a Peruvian peasants鈥� rights group sat heaped in piles on the floor of a house in downtown Lima 鈥� threatened by pests, political foes, thieves and natural disasters, but largely off limits to scholars and the public.</p> <section class="wysiwyg-feature-block u-width--half u-align--right"> <div class="wysiwyg-feature-block__figure"> <p><img alt="Portrait photo of UC Davis historian" src="https://lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk4021/files/inline-images/Chuck_Walker.jpg"></p></div></section> October 09, 2020 - 4:04pm Karen Michele Nikos /curiosity/news/historians-digitize-endangered-peruvian-archive