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Election Day: Vote. That’s It.

November 3, 2020 by Neely Tucker

Vote. Today. That’s all.

Works Progress Administration poster urging people to vote during World War II. 1943. Prints and Photographs Division.

Posted in: World War II

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A Soundtrack of World War II

October 16, 2020 by Mark Hartsell

A Library digitization project reveals parts of World War II as the Marines lived it and heard it.

Posted in: Preservation, Technology, Veterans History Project, World War II

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My Job: Andrew Huber — Helping Veterans Tell Their Stories

October 13, 2020 by Wendi Maloney

Andrew Huber, a liaison specialist in the Veterans History Project, tells what it’s like to help veterans tell their stories.

Posted in: Veterans History Project, World War I, World War II

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World War II — The Double V Campaign

August 19, 2020 by Neely Tucker

The “double war” of World War II — segregated units fought fascism abroad and discrimination at home.

Posted in: African American, African American history, World War II

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Hiroshima, 75 Years Later: A Survivor’s Account, Now at the Library

August 6, 2020 by Neely Tucker

Haruo Shimizu survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and gave a harrowing narrative of that day to Bill Floyd, an American soldier stationed in post-war Japan. Floyd’s family recently donated his papers, including the manuscript, to the Library.

Posted in: Manuscripts, Today in History, World War II

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World War II — Through Patton’s Lens

July 27, 2020 by Mark Hartsell

Library collections preserve photos taken by George S. Patton, the brilliant World War II commander on campaigns through North Africa and Europe. His family donated his papers to the Library after his death in 1945.

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World War II: Voices of War

July 1, 2020 by Mark Hartsell

Diaries, letters and oral histories reveal the hardships and heartbreak of wartime service. They’re captured in the Library’s Veterans History Project.

Posted in: Veterans History Project, World War II

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Japanese Pilot’s Map of Pearl Harbor Attack Now at Library

March 16, 2020 by Neely Tucker

The remarkable story of how the Japanese post-raid assessment of their attack on Pearl Harbor came to be held by the Library of Congress.

Posted in: Geography and Maps Division, History, World War II

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Love Letters Straight to Your Heart

February 13, 2020 by Mark Hartsell

Love letters dot the Library of Congress’s collections — centuries of devotion, passion, longing, regret and heartbreak put down on paper.

Posted in: Civil War, Manuscripts, U.S. Presidents, Veterans History Project, World War II

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‘Lost Girls’ Artwork from the Holocaust

January 15, 2020 by Mark Hartsell

A small collection in the Library’s Manuscript Division preserves drawings created by children who survived Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

Posted in: Holocaust, women's history, World War II

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