We originally featured this resource in the 7-29-2016 Scout Report, and since then Voces has redesigned their website and started posting entire interview transcripts online. With more than 800 stories available, Voces continues to be an excellent resource for educators and the general public alike.
Between 250,000 and 750,000 Latinos and Latinas served in WWII, yet their stories are often left out of historical accounts. In 1999, the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin launched the U.S. Latino and Latina WWII Oral History Project to rectify this omission. Project participants interviewed hundreds of WWII veterans and wrote a series of articles based on these conversations. In 2010, the project began to collect interviews with veterans of the Vietnam and Korean wars, as well, and changed its name to the Voces Oral History Project. On this website, visitors can browse articles about veterans' experiences, which are tagged by a variety of themes. In addition, the project has more recently compiled small documentary films, in addition to photo documentaries. These articles and short films provide powerful resources for the history classroom. The Voces Oral History Project is directed by its founder, Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, who is also a professor of journalism at UT-Austin.
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