Mission Statement

The mission of the Veterans History Project is to collect the memories, accounts, and documents of war veterans and of those who served in support of them during World War I, World War II, and the Korean, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf wars, and to preserve their stories of experience and service for future generations.

Goals:

• To stimulate opportunities for public learning, by inviting, advising, and supporting individuals and groups as participants in the Veterans History Project.

   

• To engage veterans associations, military organizations, institutions of higher learning, historical societies, civic groups, and ongoing veterans oral history projects as partners in the effort to identify, interview, and collect documents from war veterans and those who served in support of them.

   

• To preserve and present the collected materials to the public, through the National Digital Library Program, exhibitions, publications, and public programs.

   

• To identify existing and ongoing veterans oral history programs and archives, and recognize and work with them to expand the Library's Veterans History Project initiative.

   

• To create a comprehensive, searchable national catalog of all oral histories and other documentation collected as a result of this project.