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Scope and content: The Persian Gulf War series of the Veterans History Project Collection includes materials relating to Nashville area residents and veterans who served in the military or supported the war effort as civilians. This series includes items relating to both Operation Desert Shield (1990) and Operation Desert Storm (1991) and the liberation of Kuwait. Many individuals served in the military prior to or after this conflict, and their interviews...
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Scope and content: Materials include oral interviews, occasionally supported by military documents, photographs, or other related materials. Some items are photocopies. The Vietnam War Series of the Veterans History Project Collection includes materials relating to Nashville area residents and veterans who served in the military or supported the war effort as civilians. Contents are also useful for examination of the Cold War era, as not all individuals...
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Scope and content: Oral histories from veterans who served in the wars in Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom) and Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom), which were initiated in the wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and collectively known as "The War on Terrorism." Materials (as of August 2014) primarily consist of oral histories. Further details about interview contents can be obtained by consulting the "Summaries" finding aid for the...
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Scope and content: Materials in this series include interviews and items relating to individuals who served during peacetime or during periods of conflict other than those wars specified by the Library of Congress in their Veterans History Project. As a general rule, items for this series were not directly solicited, but rather were added to the project in the course of gathering materials and interviews for other segments. Note that individuals who...
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This two-part ABC News program examines the workplace that emerged in the '90s - a workplace influenced by sexual discrimination law suits and the ensuing legislation that defines sexual harassment not only in quid pro quo terms , but also as fostering a "hostile environment." In the first segment, professional women discuss the discrimination they have encountered as doctors and lawyers and their legal struggles to overcome the "boys' club" mentality...