NEH Foundations Grant 2016-2017
Listening to War: Uncovering Wisconsin’s Wartime Oral Histories was a yearlong project to identify oral history collections documenting the lives of Wisconsin veterans and civilians during wartime, held by small and mid-sized libraries, archives, museums and veterans centers across Wisconsin. Recollection Wisconsin worked with an Advisory Committee and a consultant from AVP to develop a plan to digitize, preserve and provide access to this important content. This planning project was supported by a Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Foundations grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
In 2016-2017, grant-funded Digital Archives Assistant Dana Gerber-Margie visited more than two dozen cultural heritage organizations across Wisconsin to assess their oral history collections.
Documentation
- Read about Dana’s fieldwork in this interview and her blog posts.
- Read the final white paper submitted to NEH.
