“The Veterans History Project of the American Folklife Center collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.” The Teaching with the Library of Congress blog provides some great starting points for using the Veterans History Project in class activities. More veteran-related primary source and teaching resources are listed below.
Veterans’ oral history stories
- African-Americans at War: Fighting Two Battles
- The Art of War
- Asian Pacific Americans: Going for Broke
- Buffalo Soldiers: The 92nd in Italy
- Chaplains: On a Divine Mission
- China-Burma-India: WWII’s Forgotten Theater
- Courage, Patriotism, Community
- D-Day Anniversary
- Disabled Veterans: The Unhealed Wounds
- Forever a Soldier (Companion Web site)
- The Global War on Terror
- Helicopters: The Multi-mission Aircraft
- Hispanics in Service
- Hurry Up & Wait, Life-Altering Moments, On a Mission
- Jewish Veterans of World War II
- The Korean War: Not Forgotten
- Military Intel: the Inside Story
- Military Medicine
- Prisoners of War
- Stories from the 2004 WWII Reunion on the Mall
- Submarines: The Silent Service
- Sweethearts, Buddies, Family Ties
- They Also Served: Coast Guard/Merchant Marine
- VHP: The First Ten Years
- Voices of War (Companion Web site)
- The War (Companion to the Ken Burns Series)
- War’s End: VE- and VJ-Days
- The WASP: First in Flight
- Willing to Serve: American Indians
- Women at War
- Women of Four Wars
- World War I: The Great War
- World War I Remembered: 100 Years Later
Veteran projects, lesson plans & activities
- Learning from the Source lesson plans
- Collection Connections – A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers
- Featured Source: American Expeditionary Force map guided primary source analysis activities
- Veterans’ Primary Source Sets & Teaching Guides
- Celebrating Veterans with Library of Congress Primary Sources Teaching with the Library of Congress blog November 8, 2016
- Students Connecting with Veterans: The Harlem Veteran Project Teaching with the Library of Congress blog May 19, 2015
More veteran primary sources & other resources
- Veteran books & articles
- Veteran images
- Primary source sets
- Veterans Day
- Veterans Administration
- V-E & V-J Day
- The “Bonus Army”
- Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During WWII (Exhibition)
- War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars (Webcast)
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