Archive: March 2014 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Megan Harris; (Year) 2014; (Month) March

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Celebrating Women’s History: Still Standing – The Story of Tammy Duckworth

March 18, 2014

The following is a guest post by Lisa A. Taylor, liaison specialist with the Veterans History Project. A version of this blog post ran on the Library of Congress Blog on March 13th. Disabled combat hero, veterans’ advocate, politician, woman. U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) is many things, most strikingly, a person who has not …

Posted in: Oral History, Veterans History Project

The Aleutian Islands: WWII’s Unknown Campaign

March 14, 2014

Posted by: Megan Harris

As I write this blog post on March 13, it is 29 degrees here in Washington, DC, and it seems impossible to believe that spring will arrive in just over a week. Emerging from one of the snowiest and coldest winters that many regions of the country have seen in decades, in which the phrase …

Posted in: Oral History, Veterans History Project

Refined by: (Author) Megan Harris; (Year) 2014; (Month) March