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"Oral History of the American Experience in World War II" Lecture This Afternoon

Posted December 13, 2016


Director Shaun Illingworth of the Rutgers Oral History Archives [ROHA] will discuss the Archives’ work in documenting the WWII generation and how oral history can shed new light on events from over 70 years ago on Tuesday, December 13 at 2:30 PM.
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His talk will feature stories from the ROHA collection, a retelling of America's great campaigns and home front achievements in the Second World War from the mouths of those who were there.

The Rutgers Oral History Archives (ROHA) staff have developed an online repository featuring over 825 full-text interviews with NJ veterans, home front eyewitnesses, war workers and more from World War II to today's conflicts.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.