New: Omar Ibn Said Story Map
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library of Congress is using the Story Maps platform to tell multi-media stories.
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Veterans History Project, World War II
Category: Veterans History Project
Pic of the Week: Flickr Edition
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library has featured some of its best historical photographs on a Flickr page for years, with more than 34,000 images in more than 45 albums. If you haven’t checked it out before, we hope you’ll take a minute now. Delights abound. Readers have flocked to see the 1930s-40s in Color album, with more than 3.9 million …
Posted in: Concerts, Pic of the Week, Veterans History Project, Women's History, World War II
D-Day’s Top Secret Map
Posted by: Neely Tucker
A top-secret, raised-relief model of Utah Beach helped the Allied leadership, including Eisenhower and Montgomery, plan for D-Day.
Posted in: Veterans History Project, World War II
Pic of the Week: Code Girls Reunion
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Veterans History Project hosts a special reunion of World War II veteran Code Girls, March 22, 2019. Codebreakers Nancy Tipton and Katherine Fleming chat with Liza Mundy, who wrote of their efforts in "Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II."
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A Soldier’s Story: Thomas Michael Martin
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The family of Thomas Michael Martin, a 1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Army who was killed in Iraq, recently donated a collection of his papers that documented his life and service to the Veterans History Project.
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Veterans History Project