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 Student Projects series containt student projects, theses and papers.The student's work is valuable for researchers interested in community arts organizations, public art, performing art and production processes. Materials in the collection date from 1990 through 2018.

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The Community Garden Oral History collection includes the transcriptions of five interviews with local gardeners conducted in 2010. The research and interviews were completed in hopes of comparing the current local food movement in southeast Michigan with that of Victory Gardens that were created in the area during World War II. The collection is arranged alphabetically. Records date from 2010.

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The Sesquicentennial Oral History collection is composed of interviews by Laurence N. Smith on the history of Eastern Michigan University.