USU students document Cold War era objects at the Hyrum City Museum Bringing War Home Roadshow event on April 9, 2022.
Through a National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored program led by two Utah State University faculty from history and anthropology, the Bringing War Home project invites the community — military and civilian alike — to connect with the history of war through sharing wartime objects and the personal stories that surround them. We welcome community members with an object and a story to share to bring them to the Dan Gyllenskog Veterans Resource Center on April 13, 2024.
Students and volunteers are eager to document and preserve these special items and stories digitally in a planned community archive to be housed with USU libraries.
USU student, and participant in the event, Tessa Goodsell said that “based on past roadshows where I have listened to stories about friendships in wartime, I am looking forward to connecting with the community again and hearing about more experiences.”
Mike Kelly, another USU student, said, “Curation is preserving [the] history of a material object. Not only do you preserve it, it’s about the story and the memory of the item.”
Public history preserved in this archive will enable students, educators, and future generations to engage with these important sources of our shared past. Working with Utah Public Radio and the USU Digital Initiatives will create an accessible and public digital archive to record and share family narratives and significant wartime objects.
The goal of Bringing War Home is to create opportunities for veterans, military families, students, and communities to join in ongoing conversations on how personal objects and stories can help us understand war. In the past, we have seen participants bring both personal wartime objects and family members’ objects including photographs, medals, souvenirs, items of clothing, and even a pair of Civil War drumsticks to add to the digital collection.
For more information about the April 13 event from 10 am – 2 pm at 1760 N 200 E Suite 100 in North Logan, please visit: https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/bringing-war-home.
We also invite our community to record an oral history account of their objects with UPR here: https://www.upr.org/.
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