A School-based Veterans
Oral History
Project
Project Information
Since 2000, high school students at Rome Free Academy in
Rome,
NY have interviewed over 120
veterans from World
War II to the present as part of an elective class on World Wars of the
20th Century. Their
teachers Matthew Fidler, Gary Ford and Riccardo Dursi worked with the New
York State
Military Museum and Veterans Research Center in
Saratoga,
NY and with the Library of Congress Veterans History
Project
to enable the resulting projects to be added to those collections and
preserve
the stories for generations to come.
Rome
teachers
Matthew R. Fidler and Gary R. Ford created resources for teachers
interested
in starting similar oral history projects at Capturing Their Pasts
Syracuse.
In 2007, Madison Oneida BOCES received a
state-funded Central New York Library Resources Council
Regional
Automation Grant to segment, convert and mount digital video and audio
files of
selected veterans interviews, along with related photographs and
documents in
this Madison Oneida BOCES Media Catalog. Streaming video files are now
available as a source of knowledge for teachers, students, historians
and other
interested individuals around the world.
Informational
Brochure
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