The William W. Sage Collection on Laos consists of subject files, photographs, slides, audiotapes, and manuscripts on Sage's work and writings. The collection has been arranged into four identified series: Subject Files, Photographs, Ephemera, Published and Unpublished Manuscripts. The collection also contains audiotapes that are not yet digitized.

The repository collection contains only a part of the Sage Collection. For a complete listing of the materials in the Sage collection go to Arizona Archives Online and input "Sage."

William W. Sage (b. 1946 Denver, CO) has been involved in international humanitarian aid for over forty years. He joined the International Voluntary Services team in Laos in 1969 and later served as a Community Development Area Adviser with the United States Agency for International Development in the southern and later northwestern regions of Laos until 1975. In 1977 he served four years as the Director of the Joint Voluntary Agency (JVA) in Bangkok, Thailand during which time 200,000 refugees from Indochina were processed for resettlement to the U.S.

While in Laos and Thailand, he collected both published and unpublished reports, papers, books and documents related to topics on Laos which in 1986 became the subject matter of his book Laos: A Bibliography published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.

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ContributorsIwata, Leiji (Author) / Sakomoto, H. (Translator) / Halpern, Joel (Editor)
Created1960
DescriptionA report on the minority groups in Northern Laos, with a focus on the Yao.
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Created1969
DescriptionArticle describing the lamvong, a particular style of dance and music involving drums that was common across Southeast Asia.
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ContributorsSage, William W. (Contributor)
Created1976
DescriptionAn article describing the Fifth Month Festival or the New Years Festival and its rituals by Laotians living in the San Francisco Bay area
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ContributorsDeVecchi, Maggie (Author)
Created1980
DescriptionA paper examining the documentation of Frank Snepps’ Descent Interval and William Shawcross’s sideshow in their examination of US intervention in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
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Created1959
DescriptionReport describing the history, economics, and geography of Laos and then the history of its rising communist movement, Lao Issara.
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ContributorsOlsen, Lawrence (Author)
Created1967
DescriptionArticle about the history of Laos, focusing on Buddhism, and religious beliefs.
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Created1972
DescriptionUS Internal Information Bulletins concerning the US Mission to Laos in April to June 1972, focusing on fighting between Lao forces and Viet Cong troops and the effects on US politics.
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Created1973
Description

News Bulletins from 1973 concerning the Vietnam War, international relations, and the effects on the war on international and domestic politics.

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Created1973
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News Bulletins from 1973 concerning the Vietnam War, international relations, and the effects on the war on international and domestic politics.