November 16, 2001

Course on World War II Enlists Undergraduates as Oral Historians

To answer the question "How did the Second World War transform American society?" most history students would read a few chapters in a textbook and perhaps some primary documents and then write an 8-to-10-page essay. But that's just the warm-up for students in Kurt Piehler's course, "Oral Histories of War and Peace."

Mr. Piehler's students, most of them juniors and seniors, become full partners in a project at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville that documents -- on the basis of

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