NEH grant products: Women in the U.S. Navy During World War II: An Online Archive of the WAVES (“Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service”)

Products for grant FEL-257821-18

FEL-257821-18
Women in the U.S. Navy During World War II: An Online Archive of the WAVES (“Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service”)
Kathleen Ryan, Regents of the University of Colorado, Boulder
Grant details: https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=FEL-257821-18

Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II (Web Resource)
Title: Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II
Author: Kathleen M. Ran
Abstract: Equal pay as men. Designer clothes. And (eventually) respect. It’s the story about the Greatest Generation that you haven’t heard.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://homefrontheroines.com
Primary URL Description: Website for the project. To be relaunched in 2020 (site is still initial launch).

Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II (Web Resource)
Title: Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II
Author: Kathleen M. Ryan
Abstract: Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II introduces a group of quirky, independent and determined women who went where no women had gone before: into the Navy as WAVES, or Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. Through oral histories, a documentary film (six years in the making), a blog, and immersive storytelling, this interactive documentary project reveals a hidden history about a generation that changed the course of American life.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://www.homefrontheroines.com/
Primary URL Description: New webpage for Homefront Heroines site, as funded by NEH

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