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Archive: July 2017 (2 Posts)

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

World War I Homecomings

Posted by: Lisa Taylor

The following is a guest post by Irene Lule, a Library of Congress Junior Fellow working with the Veterans History Project (VHP) this summer. In today’s highly visual world, a popular type of YouTube video is the “soldier coming home” video. These clips are fairly basic in their premise. Someone captures the moment a service …

Posted in: German Americans, Home, Narratives, Oral History, Photographs, Storytelling, Veterans History Project, World War I

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

C’est la guerre-That’s the War!

Posted by: Lisa Taylor

The following is a guest post by Justina Moloney, a Library of Congress Junior Fellow working with the Veterans History Project (VHP) this summer. I own a special collection of letters my father sent to me during his deployment to Afghanistan six years ago, when I was in my second year of college. They were …

Posted in: Languages and Dialects, Millennials, Narratives, Oral History, Photographs, Storytelling, Veterans History Project, World War I