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NEH Grant Supports new course “War, Trauma, and the Humanities” As an update for my upcoming work on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant (Dialogues on the Experience of War), I wanted to share with you all the very cool poster promoting the new college course for this fall. The course will be given at Governors State University, located in Chicago, …

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Veteran oral history interview for WWII Veteran Harald Mayrock is now available. Patrick Russell completed this interview on February 10, 2015, in Lima, Peru. WWII Veteran Harald Mayrock is a German Paratrooper from the 7th Paratrooper Division, 1st Company. Harald was born in Lima, Peru. As fate would have it, Harald’s father, who was German, took Harald to Germany to …

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PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Combat trauma, a component, variant, or synonym for PTSD (depending on whom you speak to), is a specific research interest in the oral history interviews that I conduct. My presentation at the 2015 Oral History Association conference provides some poignant examples for this topic. In short, I am investigating whether combat Veterans across the generations …

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