Institute participants drafted instructional materials and prepared annotated bibliographies relating to their research agendas.  They presented preliminary versions in July 2016 and then polished them for public access here.

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Authors retain copyright in all the materials they created in conjunction with the institute.

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​Instructional resources

In their capacity as college and university teachers, participants worked in groups to create and present instructional modules for use in higher education.

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1:  Using Oral Histories With Multiple Audiences on the Topic of Student Veterans

Units consolidated in a single PDF

• Using Veteran Oral Histories in Scholarly Research. Meredith Oyen

• Using Veteran Oral Histories in Green Zone Training. Meredith Oyen

• Using Oral History in an Undergraduate Sociology of War and Peace Class. Louis Hicks

• Using Oral Histories in Undergraduate Literature. of War Class. Hilary Lithgow

• Transitions Course for Newly Enrolled Student Veterans. Andrew Boysen

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2:  What is a Veteran?  Exploring veteran-ness from four perspectives

PowerPoint overview

• Memorial Inquiry.   Susan L. Eastman  (Topical PDF)

• Veteran Status and Public Policy.  Jim Craig (Topical PDF)

• Textual Analysis of The Gendered Veterans Body in Self Representations.  Norma Honaker  (Topical PDF)

• Veterans in World Literature: Contextualizing Wolfgang Borchert's The Man Outside.  Howard Hastings.  (Topical PDF)

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3:  Contestation and Change: Veteran Depictions Across Time, Medium, and Genre 

Units consolidated in a single PowerPoint

• Depicting Veterans in Early American Literature.  Liam Corley  (Topical PDF)

• Contestations for the Title of Veteran.  Sarah Myers (Topical PDF)

• Representations of Veterans after the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.  Kim Theriault (Topical PDF)

• Representations of Veterans in the Music of Bruce Springsteen.  Matthew Moses

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4:  The Stresses of Military Service and Veteran Reintegration

Overview in PDF

• Cultural Uses of Ritual for Reintegration.  Christopher Webb  (Forthcoming)

• Moral Injury and Recovery Strategies.  Rita Nakashima Brock (Topical PDF)

• The Arts as a Response to the Costs of War.  Tara Leigh Tappert (Topical PowerPoint and PDF)

• Poetry and Prose of Walter McDonald, USAF (ret.).  Leslie Kennedy Adams (Topical PDF)

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5:  Veteran Oral History: Voice and Representation

Units consolidated in a single PowerPoint  (Very large PPT file may require downloading before it can be viewed.)

• Oral History Theory, Practice & Methodology.   Andrew Darien

• Oral History on the Web.  Beth Ann Koelsch

• Telling Our Stories:  Honoring our Veterans by Moving Societal Margins.   Elizabeth Desnoyers-Colas

• Alternative Approaches: New Models for Collaborating with Veterans.   Nancy Dallett

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6:  “We Can Do Better”: “Listening” to the Voices of Veterans in Interviews, Memoirs, Literary Texts, and Memorials

Alexis Hart, David Noon, Elena Friot, Kristin Kelly. 

PowerPoint overview

Topical modules (consolidated in a single PDF)

• Veteran Authorship and the Politics of Standpoint. 

• Veterans and the Meaning of War

• Female Veterans' Voices. 

• Witnessing War Means Listening to Soldiers

 

Annotated bibliographies 

 

Leslie Kennedy Adams.  Remembering Fighter Pilots of Vietnam War

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Andrew Boysen.  Oral History

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Rita Nakashima Brock.  Moral Injury and Veterans

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Liam Corley.   Literary Representations of Veterans in the 19th Century

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Jim Craig.   Veteran Public Policy and Advocacy

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Nancy Dallett.   Interdisciplinary and International Inquiry for Veterans Studies

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Andrew Darien.  Veterans' Oral Histories

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Susan L. Eastman.  War Memorials/Veteran Memorials

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Elena Friot.  Diversities of Commemoration

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Alexis Hart.  Student Veterans in Higher Education

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Howard Hastings.  Soldier vs Veteran in Ernst Jünger and Wolfgang Borcher

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Louis Hicks.  Starting Points for Veterans Studies

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Norma Honaker.  Gender Troubling the Tradition of Women in Service

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Kristin Kelly.   Poetry, Prose, and Healing from PTSD

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Beth Ann Koelsch.  Gender Issues in the U.S. Military

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Hilary Lithgow.  Teaching War, Veterans and Military Experiences

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Matt Moses.  Representations of Veterans in the Music of Bruce Springsteen (discography)

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Sarah Myers.  Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)

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David Noon.  Veterans, Violence, and the 2000-2008 Presidential Campaigns

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Meredith Oyen. Student Veterans (Past and Present)

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Tara Leigh Tappert.  Arts as a Response to the Costs of War: WWI ... Iraq/Afghanistan

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Kim S. Theriault.  Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Christopher Webb.  Traumas, Cultures, Veterans

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Post-institute collaborations

 

How Society Remembers Veterans, 1945-2016  Panel presented at the annual meetings of the American Historical Association, Washington, DC, Jan 4, 2018.  Recording by C-SPAN.  https://www.c-span.org/video/?439240-2/society-remembers-veterans

• Meredith Oyen

• Elena Friot

• Sarah Myers

• Andrew Darien

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