Affiliation:
1. Department of History, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-0710, USA
Abstract
This essay demonstrates how wartime objects can have a special resonance in families as keepers of memory, and it especially explores the role of daughters of military participants in preserving the artifacts of their veteran fathers. Using several case studies from a recent public history project collecting objects and object stories in the American southwest, it argues that a focus on daughters as caretakers of family military history offers a new way to engage with descendants’ histories by showing how the work of such women can contribute to our understanding of modern war and its legacies.
Funder
National Endowment for the Humanities Dialogues on the Experience of War
Mountain West Center, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Utah State University
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