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Posted by: Megan Harris
Next week, to commemorate Veterans Day, the Veterans History Project (VHP) will release a new online portal to the digitized collections of over 150 recipients of the Medal of Honor. The nation’s highest military award, the Medal of Honor has been awarded to a very select group of individuals—since 1861, less than 3,500 members of …
Posted in: Oral History, Veterans History Project, Vietnam War, Wisconsin
Posted by: Stephen Winick
The following post introduces James P. Leary, a researcher who has published extensively on Library of Congress collections in the American Folklife Center. Most of the quotations from Leary in this article come from an email interview we did in July 2015, but I also quote occasionally from a lecture he gave at the Library …
Posted in: AFC History, Alan Lomax, ethnomusicologists, Folk Music, Folklorists, Folksong, Michigan, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Wisconsin