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Posted by: Stephanie Hall
This photo of an unknown Crow Indian girl has always fascinated me. Everything about her tells a story — but I don’t know the full story. The American Folklife Center’s Montana Field Survey, which includes this photo, was done fairly quickly, identifying places and people that might be studied in more depth at a later …
Posted in: Native American History, Women's History
Posted by: Megan Harris
A shy but determined young teletype operator. An Air Force engineer with dreams of going into space. A spy with a talent for driving fast cars and getting thrown out of East Germany. The commander of a squadron of the elite Special Forces unit known as Delta Force. What’s the common thread tying together this …
Posted in: African Americans, Hispanic American History, Oral History, Serving: Our Voices, Veterans History Project, Women's History
Posted by: Megan Harris
The following is a blog post by Lisa Gomez and Sam Meier, Junior Fellows working for the Veterans History Project (VHP) this summer. To read their previous blog posts from this summer, go here and here. Lisa’s flashback to 2015: I have a vivid memory of listening to Ashton Carter, then-Secretary of Defense, announce that the …
Posted in: Oral History, Veterans History Project, Vietnam War, Women's History, World War I, World War II
Posted by: Stephanie Hall
When I was a child, in about 1960, I remember two of my father’s cousins getting into an animated discussion about Marian Anderson and the time they resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). Although I was not old enough to understand the event they were talking about, it made a strong impression. …
Posted in: African American History, African Americans, Women's History
Posted by: Lisa Taylor
The following is a guest blog post by Owen Rogers, a Liaison Specialist for the Veterans History Project (VHP). This is the final post in a six-part Women’s History Month series. Through VHP’s online database, we learn about the women veterans who make history. What about the women who record it? In addition to the …
Posted in: Narratives, Oral History, Storytelling, Veterans History Project, Women's History
Posted by: Kerry Ward
In honor of Women’s History Month, a time to celebrate historic women’s achievements, the Veterans History Project (VHP) presents a six-part series of blog posts highlighting the many amazing accomplishments of the women who bravely volunteered for our Armed Services. The following is the fifth post in this series. This year’s National Women’s History Month theme …
Posted in: Korean War, Oral History, Veterans History Project, Vietnam War, Women's History, World War I
Posted by: Megan Harris
You might have already seen Lisa Taylor’s blog post on female code breakers in World War II—but the topic is so rich, I couldn’t resist revisiting it in my own post! Read on for more details about VHP’s holdings of women cryptanalysts and an upcoming book talk by author Liza Mundy. This is the fourth …
Posted in: Veterans History Project, Women's History, World War I
Posted by: Lisa Taylor
The following is a guest blog post by Andrew Huber, a Liaison Specialist for the Veterans History Project (VHP). This is the third post in a six-part series highlighting women veterans’ collections from the VHP archive in recognition of Women’s History Month. The story of women in the military is a story of firsts. Women …
Posted in: Iraq War, Narratives, Oral History, Storytelling, Veterans History Project, Women's History, World War II
Posted by: Lisa Taylor
The following is the second post in a six-part series highlighting women veterans’ collections from the Veterans History Project (VHP) archive in recognition of Women’s History Month. (Note: Due to the closure of all DC-area Federal Government buildings on March 2, 2018, the Women’s History Month book talk featuring Liza Mundy has been canceled. Stay …
Posted in: African Americans, Civil Rights, Iraq War, Narratives, Oral History, Purple Heart, Storytelling, Veterans History Project, Women's History, World War II