Americans love anniversaries. The fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War has afforded citizens an opportunity to remember with pride the great men and events of a war that saved the world from totalitarian tyranny. Happily, memories of World War II have not been restricted to recalling battlefield heroics or diplomatic intrigues. Across the United States, public libraries and local historical societies have commemorated the Home Front during the war years with exhibits that recapture the texture of life on farms, factories, in classrooms, and at home during what Studs Terkel has labeled the Good War. These exhibits remind us what we know instinctively: that experiencing wartime is not simply the province of men and women ...
Jo Ann Marshall was born on 8 December 1921 in Cloquet, Minnesota. She graduated from Cloquet High ...
Buffalo, New York’s Citizen Soldiers: Personal Histories of Combat, Trauma, and Returning Home after...
In a race against time, Thanasi Metropoulos \u2713 preserves a piece of WW-II history in the East Ba...
In excerpts drawn from Musselman Library\u27s Oral History Archive, the World War II years are recal...
On September 1, 1939 the armies of Nazi Germany rolled across the borders of Poland in Hitler's ques...
This is an oral history report about William Paysonutt who was in the U.S. Naval Amphibious Force du...
“Tell me about the war”—these words launched a ten-year project in oral history by a husband-and-wif...
Perception vs. Reality: WWII veterans are more than willing to share their stories. Even as a young ...
Seventy years on from D-Day, we still marvel at the stoic heroism of the men who contributed to the ...
Historians acknowledge that World War II touched every man, woman, and child in the United States. I...
This dissertation challenges the idea that the United States “home front” in World War II escaped th...
I created the Bristol Veterans History Project to record and preserve the stories from World War II ...
The First World War affected the lives of millions, creating collective memories of hardships, uncer...
Following the bloody years of the Civil War, veteran organizations became a breeding ground for nati...
A collection of interviews with World War II veterans born in Bulloch County.https://digitalcommons....
Jo Ann Marshall was born on 8 December 1921 in Cloquet, Minnesota. She graduated from Cloquet High ...
Buffalo, New York’s Citizen Soldiers: Personal Histories of Combat, Trauma, and Returning Home after...
In a race against time, Thanasi Metropoulos \u2713 preserves a piece of WW-II history in the East Ba...
In excerpts drawn from Musselman Library\u27s Oral History Archive, the World War II years are recal...
On September 1, 1939 the armies of Nazi Germany rolled across the borders of Poland in Hitler's ques...
This is an oral history report about William Paysonutt who was in the U.S. Naval Amphibious Force du...
“Tell me about the war”—these words launched a ten-year project in oral history by a husband-and-wif...
Perception vs. Reality: WWII veterans are more than willing to share their stories. Even as a young ...
Seventy years on from D-Day, we still marvel at the stoic heroism of the men who contributed to the ...
Historians acknowledge that World War II touched every man, woman, and child in the United States. I...
This dissertation challenges the idea that the United States “home front” in World War II escaped th...
I created the Bristol Veterans History Project to record and preserve the stories from World War II ...
The First World War affected the lives of millions, creating collective memories of hardships, uncer...
Following the bloody years of the Civil War, veteran organizations became a breeding ground for nati...
A collection of interviews with World War II veterans born in Bulloch County.https://digitalcommons....
Jo Ann Marshall was born on 8 December 1921 in Cloquet, Minnesota. She graduated from Cloquet High ...
Buffalo, New York’s Citizen Soldiers: Personal Histories of Combat, Trauma, and Returning Home after...
In a race against time, Thanasi Metropoulos \u2713 preserves a piece of WW-II history in the East Ba...