Earlier this year, the Cal Poly Pomona California Center for Ethics and Policy and Veterans Resource Center received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to lead a series of dialogues about the California experience of war. One contingency of the grant was that some of the dialogues take place off of the
On Thursday September 19, panelists gathered at the Pacific Club in Newport Beach to discuss their books and an important message for our country. The Richard M. Nixon Foundation joined Chapman’s Center for the Study of War and Society to host an event for prominent members of not only the Chapman community, but throughout Orange
Not only do they house one of the biggest collections of American war letters, second only to the Library of Congress, they also hold other war-related artifacts such as pictures, citations of service, awards, diaries, journals, and Armed Service Editions of books. Before going to the Center for American War Letters Archives, I had never
The Leatherby Libraries is happy to share that we are collaborating with the Cal Poly Pomona California Center for Ethics and Policy and Cal Poly Pomona Veterans Resource Center to host one of the dialogues in their “The American War Experience through California Voices” series. The discussion, which will take place on Tuesday, September 24th,
In the first half of the twentieth century, the world went to war twice. Nations around the globe found themselves embroiled in conflict, and that destruction was felt on a very individual level. Americans took part in the fighting, and the diversity of American culture, across state boundaries, allows the Center for American War Letters
Recently Chapman University’s and the Leatherby Libraries Center for American War Letters Archives contributed some materials to a documentary that in conjunction with June Beallor Productions and the USC Shoah Foundation. The documentary, entitled “Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses,” aired May 1 on the Discovery Channel. This is a documentary about the liberation of concentration
During the Second World War, correspondence with loved ones back home was highly encouraged to boost morale and remind the home front of the people for whom they were working so hard. At the same time, however, military censorship evolved beyond the previous great war due to new intelligence gathering methods by the enemy. Anything
The Center for American War Letters Archives collects American stories from every major war and from men and women of all walks of life. These are stories of love, loss, triumph and heartache. These are narratives that highlight the devastation and excitement of war, as well as the mundane and the trivial. After the Fall
This year, the Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University is hosting the Orange County Archives in Action where the Libraries, along with other institutions, will exhibit their collections, share stories, and answer questions about Orange County history. This countywide, daylong event will also include several presentations from community members dedicated to preserving and increasing awareness and access
Designed not only to honor the brave but to memorialize the fallen, the Center for American War Letters Archives preserves the narratives of families, loved ones, and heroes. This year, the Archives has the honor of commemorating one of the most heroic, and also most tragic, events in world history. The exhibit is called The