Remembering Times of War
& Conflict
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Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov
American Memory: http://memory.loc.gov
Exhibitions: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/
Veteran’s History Project: http://www.loc.gov/vets/
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Every
person who lives through a war or conflict is a custodian
of a unique story and memories. These online
resources contain original documents - letters, diaries, photographs, interviews
and oral histories - to illustrate the experiences of those who lived them.
Civil War
Born
in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (American Memory) - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
First-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
A
Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections
from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers (American Memory) - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/tcrhtml/tcrhome.html
The experiences of Captain Tilton C. Reynolds, a member of the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, told through correspondence, photographs, and other materials.
First
Person Narratives of the American South; 1860-1920 (American Memory) - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncuhtml/fpnashome.html
Diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of prominent individuals, as well as relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans.
World War I
American
Life Histories: Manuscripts from the
Federal Writers Project; 1938-1940 (American Memory) - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
Life histories collected in twenty-four states. Search on civil war, world war, or war to find stories describing the person’s observations.
From
the Home Front and the Front Lines (Exhibition) - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/homefront-home.html
Original materials and oral histories with an emphasis on World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War , and the Persian Gulf War.
The
Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers’
Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 (American Memory) - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html
Articles, news from home, sports news, poetry, cartoons, and soldier-authored materials from the complete seventy-one-week run of the newspaper's World War I edition.
World War II
After
the Day of Infamy:
"Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on
Audio interviews of
individuals in cities and towns across the
Photographs documenting the mobilization effort for World War II, including aircraft manufacturing, military training, and the nation's railroads.
Experiencing War: Stories From the Veteran’s History Project (Veteran’s History Project)- http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/
Oral histories of those who served at home and abroad in times of war and conflict.
From
the Home Front and the Front Lines (Exhibition) - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/homefront-home.html
Original materials and oral histories with an emphasis on World War I (1914-1918), World War II (1939-1945), the Korean War (1950-1953), the Vietnam War (1965-1975), and the Persian Gulf War (1991).
A folklife
specialists discusses After the Day of Infamy:
'Man-on-the-Street' Interviews Following the Attack on
"Suffering
under a Great Injustice": Ansel Adams's
Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
(American
Memory) - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/aamhome.html
Photographs documenting the
Korean War
Experiencing
War: Stories From the Veteran’s History
Project (Veteran’s
History Project)- http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/
Oral histories of those who served at home and abroad in times of war and conflict.
From
the Home Front and the Front Lines (Exhibition) - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/homefront-home.html
Original materials and oral histories with an emphasis on World War I (1914-1918), World War II (1939-1945), the Korean War (1950-1953), the Vietnam War (1965-1975), and the Persian Gulf War (1991).
Vietnam War
Experiencing
War: Stories From the Veteran’s History
Project (Veteran’s
History Project)- http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/
Oral histories of those who served at home and abroad in times of war and conflict.
From
the Home Front and the Front Lines (Exhibition) - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/homefront-home.html
Original materials and oral histories with an emphasis on World War I (1914-1918), World War II (1939-1945), the Korean War (1950-1953), the Vietnam War (1965-1975), and the Persian Gulf War (1991).
Persian Gulf War
Experiencing
War: Stories From the Veteran’s History
Project (Veteran’s
History Project)- http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/
Oral histories of those who served at home and abroad in times of war and conflict.
From
the Home Front and the Front Lines (Exhibition) - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/homefront-home.html
Original materials and oral histories with an emphasis on World War I (1914-1918), World War II (1939-1945), the Korean War (1950-1953), the Vietnam War (1965-1975), and the Persian Gulf War (1991).
September 11, 2001
Heartfelt reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 told through audio and video interviews, graphic items, and written narratives.
Witness
& Response: September 11
Acquisitions
(Exhibition) - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/911/
Original material including prints, photographs, drawings, poems, eye-witness accounts and personal reactions, headlines, books, magazines, songs, maps, videotapes and films collected by Library of Congress staff.