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CSUSM Veterans Voices oral histories

 Collection
Identifier: HIST-01

Scope and Contents

The CSUSM Veterans Voices project was originally called the War At Home and Abroad (WAHA) project. It was conducted by the California State University San Marcos History Department in collaboration with the CSUSM Student Veterans Center (now the Epstein Family Veterans Center) from 2012-2013. The project aimed to document, preserve, and make accessible the experiences of CSUSM's student veterans related to the Gulf Wars and Afghani War through oral history. The collection consists of seven interviews conducted with student veterans.

Dates

  • Creation: 2012 - 2013

Conditions Governing Access

Processed components of the collection are open for research. Unprocessed additions may contain restricted materials. Please contact CSUSM's History Department in advance to request access. Please note that the History department observes all campus holiday closures as noted in the Library Calendar. For more information, please send an email to history@csusm.edu.

Conditions Governing Use

Property rights reside with the university. Copyrights are retained by the university. Please see the related “Preferred Citation note” for language on citing materials from this collection. Permission to examine WAHA materials is not authorization to publish or to reproduce the examined material in whole, or in part. Persons wishing to quote, publish, perform, reproduce, or otherwise make use of an item in the History Department's collections must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of the copyright holder. The researcher assumes full responsibility for use of the material and agrees to hold harmless the History Department, University Library, and California State University, against all claims, demands, costs, and expenses incurred by copyright infringement or any other legal or regulatory cause of action arising from the use of the History Department's materials. In assuming full responsibility for use of the material, the researcher also understands that the materials they examine may contain Social Security numbers, other personal identifiers, and/or sensitive material on potentially living and identifiable individuals (e.g., medical, evaluative, or personally invasive information). The researcher agrees not to record, reproduce, or disclose any Social Security number or other information of a highly personal nature that may be found.

Full Extent

25.5 Gigabytes

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

The CSUSM Veterans Voices project, originally called the War At Home and Abroad (WAHA) project, was conducted by the California State University San Marcos History Department in collaboration with the CSUSM Student Veterans Center (now the Epstein Family Veterans Center) from 2012-2013. The project aimed to document, preserve, and make accessible the experiences of CSUSM's student veterans related to the Gulf Wars and Afghani War through oral history.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged by alphabetically by narrator last name.

Related Materials

The University Library also holds an oral history collection that contains interviews with North San Diego County veterans. Please see the University Library's oral history collection finding aid at https://archivesearch.csusm.edu/repositories/3/resources/19.

Content warning note

Archival and manuscript collections may contain offensive or harmful content in their collections materials, or when transcribed, language used in describing materials including in interview transcriptions, catalog records, and finding aids. This collection contains offensive language and descriptions of violence that may be disturbing to viewers.

For more information on harmful language and content in archival collections and finding aid description, see CSUSM Library's https://biblio.csusm.edu/content/potentially-harmful-language-and-content

Processing Information

Processed by Sean Visintainer, 2025.

Title
Guide to the CSUSM Veterans Voices oral histories
Status
In Progress
Author
Sean Visintainer
Date
2025-09-05
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the CSUSM History Department Repository

Contact:
History Department Cal State San Marcos
333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Rd
San Marcos California 92096-0001 United States