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Bearing Report: A Roundtable on Historians and American Veterans

Journal of Veterans Studies

Volume 7 (2021): Issue 1

By: James Marten

Open Access

|Oct 2021

Abstract

Five historians—each an expert on a specific era and issue related to veterans—were asked to ponder the following questions: 1. What are the most important questions explored by historians in veterans studies? 2. What are the books that have been most useful to your particular area of interest in veterans studies? 3. How can the history of veterans help us understand larger cultural, social, and economic issues during the time periods in which the veterans you study lived? 4. What are the particular contributions that a historic sensibility can bring to the study of veterans of any war? 5. How is the study of “historical” veterans relevant to the experiences of veterans of modern wars and the civilians with whom they interact? 6. What topics in the history of American veterans still need to be explored? Their answers—lightly edited and in some cases shortened to avoid redundancy and maintain a semblance of symmetry—cover a wide range of issues.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/jvs.v7i1.304 | Journal eISSN: 2470-4768

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Language: English

Page range: 280 - 294

Submitted on: Sep 12, 2021

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Accepted on: Sep 12, 2021

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Published on: Oct 1, 2021

Published by: Virginia Tech Publishing

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Second World War,

First World War,

African American,

gender and war,

© 2021 James Marten, published by Virginia Tech Publishing
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