READ THE STORY Texas Tech University’s Vietnam Center & Archive, home
to the nation’s largest and most comprehensive collection of information on the
Vietnam War, is looking to make that collection more accessible to researchers
around the world.
Thanks to a $95,740 grant from the National Endowment for
the Humanities (NEH), the Vietnam Center & Archive (VNCA) will now be able
to transcribe, edit and publish online its entire backlogged collection of oral
history interviews conducted by the VNCA Oral History Project, which includes a
diverse array of Vietnam veterans and their family members.
“In addition to the
millions of pages of documents in our collections, the interviews we conduct as
part of our Oral History Project are essential to a better and more complete
understanding of the Vietnam War,” said Steve Maxner, director of the VNCA.
“Our interviews provide a human face to the conflict, offering insight into the
emotional and psychological costs of war that researchers cannot get from
traditional government and military documents. This level of comprehension is
critical, not just for students and scholars, but for military and government
officials who make the policies and ultimate decisions that send our military
men and women into harm’s way. This generous grant from the NEH will allow us
to transcribe these interviews, providing much easier access to them and the
important information they contain.”
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