The following is a guest post by Bob Patrick, former director of the Veterans History Project. As the Director of the Veterans History Project, I had many, many occasions to make presentations ...
The following is a guest blog post by Travis Bickford, head of programs and communications at The Library of Congress Veterans History Project (VHP). On August 28, 2005, it was 111 degrees in Bag...
This Veterans Day, the Veterans History Project (VHP) is proud to debut a pair of research tools to help users discover and navigate our collections related to the Vietnam War. The newest install...
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2023/11/vhps-new-vietnam-war-research-tools/
The following is a guest blog post by Veterans History Project (VHP) participant Paul LaRue, a retired social studies teacher in Washington Court House, Ohio. As an educator, you are always looki...
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2023/09/voices-from-the-761st-tank-battalion/
The following is a guest blog post by veteran and Veterans History Project participant Earl Porter III. Porter’s VHP interview can be found on our website. On September 11, 2021, the 20th ann...
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2023/06/one-way-to-mitigate-the-risk-of-post-traumatic-stress/
The following is a guest blog post by Andrew Huber, a liaison specialist for the Library of Congress Veterans History Project (VHP). The idea of an event focusing on collecting stories from Asian...
The following is a guest post by Elaina Finkelstein, a public affairs Specialist in the Library’s Office of Communication. Today is June 6—a seemingly ordinary Tuesday for some, but for my ...
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2023/06/d-day-and-me-the-importance-of-preserving-veterans-stories/
In honor of the upcoming anniversary of D-Day, the Veterans History Project (VHP) is excited to debut a recently digitized new acquisition: a rare map used during the D-Day invasion of Normandy o...
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2023/06/vhp-collection-spotlight-joseph-vaghis-d-day-map/
The following is a guest blog by Travis Bickford, supervisory liaison specialist for the Library of Congress Veterans History Project (VHP). Ten years ago, I read Tim O’Brien’s, “The Things...
The following is a question-and-answer session with author Tim O’Brien in anticipation of the film screening of The War and Peace of Tim O’Brien with special guest and director of the docu...