FSEM100RR: When Americans Came Marching Home

No need to post a blog entry for next Tuesday’s class since your paper rewrites are due that day.
However, since we’re going to be discussing everyone’s interviews, be prepared to talk about what you learned from your discussions with an American veteran.

If you have trouble watching the video or listening to the audio of women veterans from the VHP, make sure you have Real Player installed on your computer.  If not you can download it for free from here.  Or you can go to one of the computer labs on campus and watch/listen to the there.
Again, [...]

Make sure your paper has:

A thesis about the experiences of American veterans (including postwar experiences)
A title page with a real title
Page numbers (starting with the first page of text as page 1)
A bibliography of works cited in the notes
One-inch margins
Properly cited footnotes
Quotations from your interview

Select at least 2 veterans from the Women at War page of the Veterans History Project to read/listen to.
Also check out the NPR Story on Female Iraq Veterans

Peer Review Form
You can fill this out and email it to the person you’re peer reviewing OR write on a printed copy. Either way it needs to be given or emailed to me by classtime next Tuesday (Nov. 27). [If you're emailing an electronic version, send it to me and the author.]

Several of you seem to be struggling with the paper assignment so this post is an attempt to emphasize what we discussed in class and clarify those parts that seem to be confusing people.
Your paper should not just be a summary of your interviewee’s experiences, nor just what he or she thought.  The paper should [...]

1) Finding a veteran

The guidelines for who the Library of Congress’s Veterans History Project is interested in are located here. [Note that for the purpose of this class, I'd prefer a focus on a veteran from one of the wars we cover in class.]
The easiest choice may be a relative or a friend [...]

This is from a documentary made in the 1990s.
The second clip is from a 1933 movie, Heroes for Sale. Do the two clips differ in their portrayal of veterans of the Great War? Why or why not?

I know we’re still only at the Civil War, but this is related to our class themes, so I thought I’d bring it to your attention and those of the people who read this class blog.
Ken Burns, creator of a number of documentaries about American History, including The Civil War, spent six years creating a [...]

Keep these categories in mind as you do the reading for Thursday.

Discipline
Camp Life
Disease
Fighting
Death
Desertion
Prison