Abstract The Veterans History Project is an initiative of the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress that was created through an act of the United States Congress in 2000. The local efforts to interview and record veteran oral histories as a part of the Veterans History Project were taken up by several volunteers including this collection’s donor and Ypsilanti Rotary Club volunteer, William “Bill” Vollano and Eastern Michigan University Professor of History JoEllen Vinyard. For over a...

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The Health Services records contain documents pertaining to health care programs and services at Eastern Michigan University from 1941 until 2015. The collection includes press materials, curriculum details, business plans, counseling tools, and other materials. This is valuable to the study of student health resources, health programs, mental health services, and Eastern Michigan University's relationship to the Department of Defense during World War II.

Abstract The Military participation on campus records, 1864-2005, include materials from the American Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, as well as secondary materials relating to the history of these conflicts as they relate to Michigan State Normal College, its students, alumni, faculty, staff and campus, as well as Ypsilanti, MI. The bulk of the materials are approximately dated 1864 to 1944, and include clippings, photographs,...

Abstract The Veterans Administration Program records are the administrative files associated with the enrollment of veterans in the 1920s, 1940s and 1950s at Michigan State Normal College, Eastern Michigan College and Eastern Michigan University. The majority of materials are associated with those students taking advantage of benefits associated with the Vocational Rehabilitation Act (Public Law 16) and Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (P.L. 78-346), known...