Everything thought it bypassed the United States is doing to search, i found how extensively the range of artists, not only high artists but popular artists, commercial artists, we digesting the war. And actually after the troops came home. Steve you teach this attitude at wake forest university. What drew you to this topic . Mr. Lubin i knew the anniversary of american involvement in the war was coming up. I thought, we were living in a time this was the early 2000s. I was thinking about how the war that we were facing, the wars in the middle east has a huge influence on the way we were thinking about things. I thought it must have been same back in the day a century earlier. It was more a question i had in my mind, why wasnt it similar . The rejection of anything to do with war. Normal shows a desire for war. Not for war. It roiled peoples consciousness. Thats what i kept discovering again and again. Steve lets set up our involvement in world war i and why we were involved, late in t
For oral history, but first, we learn about this collection from the Center Project executive director. At theeaches History Academy at west point and is the director of west points Oral History Center. How long has the Oral History Center been associated with the academy . Its been associated with the academy since about 2007. Ive been the director since 2015, january. What is the value of an oral history . Well, for us, we try to make it accessible to the cadets say so they can use it for their research. But really all of our videos, all of our interviews, are open sourced so anyone in america can get online, look at our interviews, and hopefully learn something about our history from them. Well, as a historian, as a professional historian, whats the place that oral histories hold in the overall study of history . Well, oral histories help add a lot of detail. For example, if youre writing a paper, a book about something, and you find some oral histories, that you can pull informatio