A public digital oral-history collection
The Veterans' Voices Digital Archive
Preserving Voices. Protecting Legacies.
A searchable historical archive preserving the lived experiences, service, and memories of America's veterans for researchers, families, educators, and future generations.
Archive status
A growing historical collection
Every interview strengthens a permanent research collection built around the voices of those who served.
Research the collection
Search across veterans' stories
Find names, military units, locations, conflicts, occupations, awards, organizations, historical events, and exact transcript passages.
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Enter the archive through its records
Explore individual veteran authority records, preserved episodes, full transcripts, and research tools.
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Veterans
Browse approved profiles documenting service, biography, conflicts, eras, and linked oral histories.
Episodes
Explore long-form veteran stories, FireSide Chats, and special historical programming.
People
Discover veterans, hosts, participants, family members, historians, and other people represented in the collection.
Transcript Search
Search the spoken record and move directly to interviews that contain relevant historical material.
Research Center
Use archive statistics, research tools, guidelines, and specialized discovery features.
Ask the Archive
Explore the collection through archive-grounded questions and discover related oral histories.
Become part of the collection
Every veteran has a story worth preserving.
Veterans can submit their military-service information directly to the archive before their interview. Your information is reviewed by the project and connected to your preserved oral history.
Research and preservation
Built for discovery and long-term access
For researchers, educators, and families
The archive is designed to preserve veterans' own words while making the collection useful for historical research, classroom study, family discovery, journalism, and public understanding.
National-level preservation
Episodes from The Lost Art Project: Veterans' Voices are provided to the Marine Corps History Division for historical archiving while the project maintains and expands its own public digital collection.