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Listen to Our Words: Oral Histories of the Jewish Community of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania ...

2 reviews

Saint Vincent College, 1998

Comments from Focus Magazine, Greensburg Tribune Review
Though the Jewish population of Westmoreland County is spread more thinly than it would be in Brooklyn or Miami Beach, anthropologist Mark Gruber sees the same themes repeated here he would associate with large Jewish settlements in urban areas -- themes that include "skills on how to live as a minority and how to do so with a dignified and decent kind of life. How to cope with the pressures of ...

They Say There Was A War (Veterans' Oral History)

4 reviews

Saint Vincent College, 2006

An utterly invaluable primary source
They Say There Was a War collects fifty detailed, personal narratives of men and women who served in the United States military in all different services and theaters during World War II. The individuals tapped to tell their stories in their own words range from a survivor of the Bataan Death March to one who worked on building the Thai-Burma Railway. From bloody battles to harrowing conditions ...

Waiting for Jacob: A Civil War Story

4 reviews
Edwin P. Hogan, Richard David Wissolik, ...

Saint Vincent College Center for, 2000

Don't wait to read, "Waiting for Jacob"
In this charming work, Edwin Hogan, captivates the reader with the tender love story set against the background of the American Civil War. Dr. Hogan's research adds depth to the story told in the letters from Jacob Greenawalt to his wife Rebecca. The story will be especially of interest to those living in Western Pennsylvania, as familiar place and family names jump off the pages and even minor ...

Reluctant Valor: The Oral History of Captain Thomas J. Evans, United States Third Army, 4th Armored Division, ...

1 review
Thomas J. Evans, Walter E. Mullen, ...

Saint Vincent College Center for, 1995

Comments on the author by Gary E.J. Smith
Evans is a fascinating man to listen to. He is a decorated veteran, but shuns the recognition he rightly deserves. He admits that some of his actions during the heat of combat "might have been foolhardy." Evans was not interested in medals, only in trying to keep his men alive. As Evans' Third Army Com mander, General George S. Patton remarked, "No one ever won a war by dying for his country. He ...