| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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The Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II <http://fas-history.rutgers.edu/oralhistory/orlhom.htm>. Created and maintained by the Oral History Archives of World War II, Department of History, Rutgers University. Reviewed Sept. 14-30, 2002.

This Web site does one thing, and it does it well. It makes accessible transcripts of more than 230 interviews conducted with Rutgers alumni since 1994, when the class of 1942 provided funds and interviewees for an archive to preserve the history of the war generation at Rutgers. Since then other alumni--mostly white men who graduated in the 1940s--have added their stories, building a collection of lengthy personal narratives (often running twenty thousand words or more) that cover the period from the Great Depression to the Cold War. Rather than focusing on a particular theme or event, interviewers asked alumni to tell their life stories, beginning with brief sketches of family history and childhood upbringing, then focusing on the personal odysseys of the war years, and concluding with a discussion of postwar life under the G.I. Bill. . . .

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