Atlanta Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Supports Atlanta History Center Digitization Project
ATLANTA, GA – The Atlanta Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) awarded the Atlanta History Center a grant of $5,949.00 to digitize over 500 hours of personal stories of United States combat veterans and civilians who served in their support.
The DAR grants program was started in 2010. Funding is awarded to support projects in local communities which promote the organization’s mission areas of historic preservation, education and patriotism. This DAR grant supports the Atlanta History Center in converting their analog audio-visual collection (346 MiniDV, VHS, Hi8 video tapes, 15 audiocassette and microcassette tapes) to digital format.
Over 361 oral history interviews of United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, and Merchant Marine veterans collected by the Atlanta History Center from 1999-2013 were delivered to Crawford Media Services in Atlanta, Georgia, in March 2014 for digitization. The project was completed May 2014. The Atlanta History Center is currently cataloguing the collection and will provide online public access in spring 2015.
For more information, visit AtlantaHistoryCenter.com/Research.
ABOUT NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in 1890 to promote patriotism, preserve American history, and support better education for our nation’s children. Its members are descended from the patriots who won American independence during the Revolutionary War. With 178,000 members in approximately 3,000 chapters worldwide, DAR is one of the world’s largest and most active service organizations. To learn more about the work of today’s DAR, visit www.DAR.org. For more about applying for a Special Projects Grant from DAR, visit www.dar.org/grants.
ABOUT AHC VETERAN HISTORY PROJECT
The Atlanta History Center (AHC) Veterans History Project seeks to collect oral histories of American war veterans who served in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts, and civilians who served in their support. The center will consider other materials such as letters, diaries, maps, photographs, and home movies from these participants on a case by case basis.
The AHC preserves and makes accessible these accounts so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better appreciate the realities of war and the sacrifices made by those who served in uniform during wartime. The interviews preserved at the Kenan Research Center are created in partnership with the Veterans History Project, an initiative of the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center. Since 2000, the Library has collected interviews of veterans of World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, and the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts. The History Center is a founding partner and to date has contributed over 400 interviews of veterans in Metropolitan Atlanta with the invaluable assistance of the Atlanta Vietnam Veterans Business Association.
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