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From the Home Front and the Front Lines

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Provider: Library of Congress

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Appropriate grades
6–12
Subjects
social studies (United States history)
Provider
Library of Congress

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This exhibition consists of original materials and oral histories drawn from the Veterans History Project collections at the Library of Congress. 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), the Veterans History Project, by act of Congress, collects and preserves the experiences of America's war veterans and those who supported them.

With nearly 1,700 veterans passing away each day, the collection of these personal accounts of service men and women, from all ranks and all branches of service, has become an urgent endeavor. This exhibition features the collections of these men and women in the form of their first-hand accounts of war documented in correspondence, photographs, diaries, bound volumes and albums, as well as maps, flags, and military papers.