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Notable holdings include a letter by a soldier writing on stationery discovered in Adolf Hitler's office and a Civil War letter from General William T. Sherman. [1] The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently awarded a Foundations-level grant for the digitization of the letters held in this archive, so they may be available to researchers online.
Andrew Carroll (born September 27, 1969) is an American author, editor, playwright, public speaker, nonprofit executive, and historian.. Carroll is known as the editor of the New York Times best sellers Letters of a Nation, [3] Behind the Lines, and War Letters, [4] [5] which later inspired the documentary of the same name. [6]
The letters between Hodgkins and his wife, Sarah, have served as an important historical footnotes since the early 1900s [2] for understanding the Revolutionary War and have been featured in such books as the Library of America's The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence , David McCullough's 1776, and Ray Raphael's A People ...
Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters—and One Man's Search to Find Them, published in 2005 by Scribner is a book compiled by Andrew Carroll, the editor of three New York Times bestsellers, consisting of letters written by soldiers during the wars in American history, correspondences by their civilian families, and Carroll's search to find them.
The Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress American Folklife Center (commonly known as the Veterans History Project) was created by the United States Congress in 2000 to collect and preserve the firsthand remembrances of U.S. wartime veterans. Its mandate ensures future generations may hear directly from those who served to better ...
The Library of America [4] (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LOA has published more than 300 volumes by authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Saul Bellow, Frederick Douglass to Ursula K. Le Guin, including selected writing of several U.S. presidents.
Academy of American Franciscan History; African-American Research Library and Cultural Center; Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library; American Antiquarian Society; American Newspaper Repository; Armstrong Browning Library & Museum; Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History
Robert Gould Shaw (October 10, 1837 – July 18, 1863) was an American officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Born into an abolitionist family from the Boston upper class, he accepted command of the first all-black regiment (the 54th Massachusetts) in the Northeast.