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Community Service Hero: Veterans Heritage Project Continues to Shine

Posted by: Lisa Taylor

The following is a guest post by Barbara Hatch, Veterans Heritage Project Founder and Program Director. The program is based in Arizona. To learn more about this organization, read our 2016 post about it here. In 1998, students in my history classroom had seen the movie Saving Private Ryan and wanted to separate fact from …

Posted in: Narratives, Oral History, Storytelling, Students, teachers, Veterans History Project, World War II

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Sharpened Pencils and Sharper Minds: World War II Women Code Breakers

Posted by: Lisa Taylor

The following is the first post in a six-part series highlighting women veterans’ collections from the Veterans History Project (VHP) archive in recognition of Women’s History Month. Imagine coming across this job announcement today: Candidates must be highly skilled in math and linguistics, willing to relocate and able to keep a secret to the death. …

Posted in: Narratives, Oral History, Storytelling, Students, Veterans History Project, Women's History, World War II