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1. 01_Welcome Overview and Research Goals (30:32)

Date:: January 14, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Ron Osgood; Patrick C. Shih

2. 02_Soldiers Write the War: World War II, Vietnam and the War on Terror (46:53)

Date:: January 14, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; John Bodnar
Summary:: This paper will explore the way American soldiers from three different wars wrote about their experiences. It will attempt to unravel the fragile relationship between patriotic accounts of war tha...

3. 03_Empowering Citizen Scholars: Lessons Learned from the History Harvest (47:57)

Date:: January 14, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Rebecca Wingo
Summary:: The History Harvest is a community-centered, student-driven archival project that empowers community voices through material-based oral histories. Over the course of a semester, History Harvest stu...

4. 04_Remembering Vietnam: An Experiment in Civic Engagement (43:46)

Date:: January 14, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; David S. Ferriero
Summary:: Ferriero will discuss the planning process for a major exhibit on the Vietnam War within the context of the mission of the National Archives. Particular focus will be on how the principles of Open...

5. 05_Rediscovering American War Experiences through Crowdsourcing and Computation (46:57)

Date:: January 14, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Kurt Luther
Summary:: Stories of war are complex, varied, powerful, and fundamentally human. Thus, crowdsourcing can be a natural fit for deepening our understanding of war, both by scaling up research efforts and by pr...

6. 06_Recap and Website Walkthrough (37:33)

Date:: January 14, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Ron Osgood; Patrick C. Shih

7. 07_Who Gets to Tell the Vietnam War Story (18:55)

Date:: January 14, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Heather Stur
Summary:: For as much as has been written and produced about the Vietnam War, the voices telling the story have remained much the same. Historians and journalists have privileged American male combat veteran...

8. 08_Blood Sacrifice and Clashing American Narratives of the Vietnam War (18:31)

Date:: January 14, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Edward Linenthal
Summary:: The mass slaughter of 1864-1865 in the American Civil War eroded traditional belief in martial sacrifice as redemptive, blood shed for the new birth of the nation. Narratives in tension continued t...

9. 09_War and Memory: The Meaning of Winning and Losing in Narratives from the Other Side (18:00)

Date:: January 14, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Larry Berman
Summary:: I have been writing about Vietnam since 1982 and learned much about the war and peace from participants on both sides of the brutal conflict.  In my presentation, I want to share how participants i...

10. 10_Telling War: An Exploration of Form (17:22)

Date:: January 15, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Lisa Silvestri
Summary:: With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Telling War, a veteran based initiative, explores manifestations of the veteran voice through a variety of story forms such as papermaki...