Practicing Oral History With Military And War Veterans

Author : Sharon D. Raynor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000818765

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Practicing Oral History with Military and War Veterans by Sharon D. Raynor Pdf

Practicing Oral History with Military and War Veterans focuses predominantly on conducting oral history with men and women of recent wars and military conflicts. The book provides a structured methodology for building interest and trust among veterans to conduct interviews, design oral history projects, and archive and use these oral history interviews. It includes background on the evolution of veterans oral history, the nuts and bolts of interviewing, ethical guidelines, procedures, and the overall value of veterans oral history. The methodology emphasizes how memory evolves over the years - when a veteran becomes more distant from the events of war, the experiences become individualized and personalized for each veteran based on location, time, place, and purpose of their service. The book also aims to improve understanding of the personal, ethical, and psychological issues involved in listening compassionately to veterans’ stories that may contain issues of trauma, gender, socio-economics, race, dis/ability, and ethnicity. Practicing Oral History with Military and War Veterans is an invitation to community scholars, students, oral historians, and families of veterans to actively participate in the oral history process and to embrace methodology that may help with designing and conducting oral history projects and interviewing war veterans.

Author : Richard Stacewicz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124124160

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Winter Soldiers by Richard Stacewicz Pdf

The story of the soldiers who spoke their conscience and helped end the war in Vietnam.

Author : Robert G. Thobaben
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786482009

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For Comrade and Country by Robert G. Thobaben Pdf

Ray Hill was a cook and machine gunner who survived the sinking of a PT boat by a kamikaze. German forces in the middle of the Siegfried defensive line captured Robert Corbin, a forward artillery observer officer who later escaped after 140 days of captivity. Arthur Ensley, a B-25 pilot, was shot down on his 79th mission into the Brenner Pass. He was helped by Italian partisans. Don Barrett, a Marine, was involved in three Pacific campaigns--Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, and Peleliu, where he was badly wounded. Fellow World War II veteran Robert G. Thobaben gathered their reports and others from men who were young soldiers in the war. This book presents 30 oral histories, 14 from the Pacific Theater and 16 from the European. In addition to describing their individual experiences, these Marine, Army, Navy and Air Forces privates, sergeants and officers also discuss such questions as why men fight, how soldiers cope, why it is important to record their stories, and what they think about the ethics of war.

Author : Barbara W. Sommer
Publisher : Oral History Association
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0984594736

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Doing Veterans Oral History by Barbara W. Sommer Pdf

This pamphlet, produced by the Oral History Association in collaboration with the Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress, offers a detailed guide to doing oral history interviews with military veterans, from interview preparation to the interview itself to what happens afterward. It is a valuable resource for teachers and students, libraries and community groups, veterans associations, family members of veterans, and anyone who wishes to document the stories of those who have served our country.

Author : Philip F. Napoli
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466837003

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Bringing It All Back Home by Philip F. Napoli Pdf

Featured in the NY Emmy-nominated documentary New York City's Vietnam Veterans (CUNY-TV) A collection of heartrending oral histories that topples assumptions about the people who served in Vietnam The Vietnam War was a defining event for a generation of Americans. But for years, misguided and sometimes demeaning clichés about its veterans have proliferated widely. Philip F. Napoli's Bringing It All Back Home strips away the myths and reveals the complex individuals who served in Southeast Asia. Napoli was one of the chief researchers for Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, and in the spirit of that enterprise, his oral histories recast our understanding of a war and its legacy. Napoli introduces a remarkable group of young New Yorkers who went abroad with high hopes only to find a bewildering conflict. We meet a nurse who staged a hunger strike to promote peace while working at a field hospital; a paratrooper whose experiences on the battlefield left him with emotional scars that led to violence and homelessness; a black soldier who achieved an unexpected camaraderie with his fellow servicemen in racially tense times; and a university administrator who helped to create New York City's Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Some of Napoli's soldiers became active opponents of the war; others did not. But all returned with a powerful urge to understand the death and destruction they had seen. Overcoming adversity, a great many would go on to lead ambitious lives of public service. Tracing their journeys from the streets of Brooklyn and Queens to the banks of the Mekong, and back to the most glamorous corporations and meanest homeless shelters of New York City, Napoli reveals the variety and surprising vibrancy of the ex-soldiers' experiences. "For almost everyone the time in Vietnam was the most exciting and the most alive time of your life," one veteran recalls. He adds: "I still have this little trick . . . When I lie down and go to sleep, if there's something bothering me, I say, 'You're warm, you're dry, and there is no one shooting at you.'"

Author : David P. Cline
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469664545

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Twice Forgotten by David P. Cline Pdf

Journalists began to call the Korean War "the Forgotten War" even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already neglected war is that of African Americans who served just two years after Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military. Twice Forgotten draws on oral histories of Black Korean War veterans to recover the story of their contributions to the fight, the reality that the military&8239;desegregated in fits and starts, and how veterans' service fits into the long history of the Black freedom struggle. This collection of seventy oral histories, drawn from across the country, features interviews conducted by the author and his colleagues for their American Radio Works documentary, Korea: The Unfinished War, which examines the conflict as experienced by the approximately 600,000 Black men and women who served. It also includes narratives from other sources, including the Library of Congress's visionary Veterans History Project. In their own voices, soldiers and sailors and flyers tell the story of what it meant, how it felt, and what it cost them to fight for the freedom abroad that was too often denied them at home.

Author : Trish Wood
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780316023207

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What Was Asked of Us by Trish Wood Pdf

In this modern-day successor to the Vietnam classic Everything We Had, award-winning investigative reporter Trish Wood offers a gritty, authentic, and uncensored history of the war in Iraq, as told by the American soldiers who are fighting it.

Author : Peipei Qiu,Zhiliang Su,Lifei Chen
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888208296

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Chinese Comfort Women by Peipei Qiu,Zhiliang Su,Lifei Chen Pdf

Accountability and redress for Imperial Japan’s wartime “comfort women” have provoked international debate in the past two decades. Yet there has been a dearth of first-hand accounts available in English from the women abducted and enslaved by the Japanese military in Mainland China—the major theatre of the Asia-Pacific War. Chinese Comfort Women features the personal stories of the survivors of this devastating system of sexual enslavement. Offering insight into the conditions of these women’s lives before and after the war, it points to the social, cultural, and political environments that prolonged their suffering. Through personal narratives from twelve Chinese “comfort station” survivors, this book reveals the unfathomable atrocities committed against women during the war and correlates the proliferation of “comfort stations” with the progression of Japan’s military offensive. Drawing on investigative reports, local histories, and witness testimony, Chinese Comfort Women puts a human face on China’s war experience and on the injustices suffered by hundreds of thousands of Chinese women.

Author : Richard Stacewicz
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : United States
ISBN : 0805745807

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The Winter Soldier by Richard Stacewicz Pdf

Author : Mary Louise Contini Gordon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000986204

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Family Oral History Across the World by Mary Louise Contini Gordon Pdf

Family Oral History Across the World presents a process for memorializing family histories, bringing together established oral history standards, exploratory research, and narrative data analysis. Based on and using a prequestionnaire and over 40 recorded interviews with people from across six continents, the analysis system used in the book presents material from these interviews that brings alive the experience of the family history journey. One of the guiding principles is to encourage readers to interview family members, but also others outside the family unit, and to produce a family history in whatever format works. The book illustrates this through the inclusion of many unusual formats and stories uncovered. The book is divided into a number of themes that emerged through the analysis of numerical questionnaire and narrative interview data. Parts I, II, and III cover changing family demography, case studies, and factors such as memory, emotion, and ethics. Part IV offers a pliable process and practice guide with input and examples from interviews. It also discusses developing approaches to presenting oral histories from both oral historians and other interviewers and writers, such as journalists. With case studies as well as example guidelines and templates, this volume is ideal both for academics interested in family history as well as professional genealogists and families themselves.

Author : Brian Lockman
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811744492

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World War II Reflections by Brian Lockman Pdf

Gripping firsthand accounts. Then-and-now photos of the veterans. Maps and sidebars highlighting battles, units, and equipment.

Author : George Belliveau,Graham W. Lea,Marv Westwood
Publisher : University of British Columbia Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Contact!Unload (Play).
ISBN : 0774862637

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Contact!Unload by George Belliveau,Graham W. Lea,Marv Westwood Pdf

This book is a call to action to responsibly address the sometimes difficult transition many soldiers face when returning to civilian life. It explores the development, performance, and reception of Contact Unload, a play that brings to life the personal stories of veterans returning home from deployment overseas. The play showcases an arts-based therapeutic approach to dealing with trauma. To bring Contact Unload to life, researchers in theatre and group counselling collaborated with military veterans through a series of workshops to create and perform the play. Based on the lives of military veterans, it depicts ways of overcoming stress injuries encountered during service. This action-based artistic initiative, coupled with a therapeutic program, served as a successful model for military veterans transitioning to civilian life. This book, which includes the full script of the play, offers academic, artistic, personal, and theoretical perspectives from people directly involved in the performances of Contact Unload as well as those who witnessed the work as audience members. Both the play and the book serve as a model for using arts-based approaches to mental health care, and as a powerful look into the experiences of military veterans.

Author : Mia Martin Hobbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108832663

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Return to Vietnam by Mia Martin Hobbs Pdf

Since the 1980s, thousands of American and Australian veterans have returned to Việt Nam. This oral history tells their story.

Author : Summer Cherland
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040022115

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Student-Centered Oral History by Summer Cherland Pdf

Student-Centered Oral History explores the overlaps of culturally relevant teaching, student-centered teaching, and oral history to demonstrate how this method empowers students, especially those from historically underrepresented communities. With tangible tools like lesson plans and reflection sheets, available to download as eResources from the book's website, each interactive chapter is applicable to classrooms and age groups across the globe. Educators from all levels of experience will benefit from step-by-step guides and lesson plans, all organized around guiding questions. These lessons coach students and educators from start to finish through a student-centered oral history. Background research, historical context, cultivating a culture of consent, analysis, promotion, and gratitude are among the many lessons taught beyond writing questions and interviewing. With a specific focus on the ethics influencing a teacher’s role as guide and grader of a student-centered oral history, this book also highlights successful approaches across the world of students and teachers discovering oral history. These examples reveal how student-centered oral history empowers academic achievement, radicalizes knowledge, develops relationships, and promotes community engagement. This book is a useful tool for any students and scholars interested in oral history in an educational setting.

Author : Norman Carlisle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1478705515

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Their War, Their Words by Norman Carlisle Pdf

The author writes, "I never asked my Daddy what he did in the war. I somehow knew he would not talk about it. I was seven years old when he came home in late 1945. I knew he was gone, and now was back. My mother had dozens of letters from him, but I did not read any of them. A seven year old boy has other things on his mind." However, this question was asked by many, and answered by few. There were two reasons for this. One, what they saw and experienced in the heat of combat was so horrifying, that they were not about to share with anyone. They tried to put it behind them. The second reason was the more likely one. They did not think what they did was special.. These men, and women, were products of the Depression. They were given nothing, expected nothing, but knew how to get the job done. Every man in Mr. Carlisle's book said they did not worry about the flag, or Mom's Apple Pie. Their greatest concern was not to let their buddies down. These stories came from many different branches of the service. When the Korean War ended without victory, and was followed by Viet Nam, they were concerned that these young people had not been able to fight a war in the "proper" way; no holds barred, you are right, he is wrong, and send him to hell. After Mr. Brokaw wrote his book, they began to realize...they were special. Now, at the end, they are ready to talk. This book answers important questions that have been puzzling historians. Why did the Air Corps gunner shoot down a British Spitfire? How close was an American plane that day at Nagasaki? While floating down in his parachute, what was the airman thinking about? This is their words about their war.