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Chapman University: 11,000 Wartime Letters Donated to Chapman’s Center for American War Letters. “A major donation is expanding the collection Chapman University’s nationally recognized The Center for American War Letters. More than 11,000 wartime letters were recently entrusted to the Center by Alabama lawyer and historian Max Pope. The collection, spanning from the Civil War to Vietnam, […]
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If you are old and have a stash of war letters or memorabilia--or even if you are young and have inherited them--consider offering them to your local library, whether public or at a college or university, rather than letting them end up with some family member who doesn't appreciate them as historical documents. Before I sent off my father's and mother's letters to the Center for American War Letters, I created this site, on which I have since taken off the photocopies and just left the transcriptions. #WarLetters #Preservation #HistoricalDocuments https://pittmanlettersproject.com/welcome/