Veterans: Surviving, Enduring, and Remembering War

About This Event

"Veterans: Surviving, Enduring and Remembering War" is a two-day conference hosted by the U.S. Naval War College that explores veterans in history. The conference aims to build connections and foster conversations between disparate historiographies. Academics who study veterans across many time periods or conflicts, as well as professionals who work with veterans today, will present papers on topics that include but are not limited to:

• Veterans as custodians of historical memory
• Veterans as historians, relic collectors and autobiographers
• Veterans and their struggles for benefits and recognition
• Medical and disability histories of veterans
• Veterans and politics
• Transitions to peacetime and civilian life
• Veterans and post-traumatic growth
• Veterans’ fraternal organizations and culture
• Veterans’ relationships with families and children
• Veterans’ relationships with other generations of veterans
• The socio-economics of veteranhood
• The experiences of women veterans
• Veteranhood and race and/or ethnicity
• Veterans in historical memory
• Veterans engagement in and relationship to anti-war activism
• Methodologies for exploring veterans in history