How to Participate:

• Register using our online form
• Print the VHP Field Kit
  [PDF: 2.5MB / 16 pages]
• Prepare for the interview
• Conduct the interview
• Send your collection to the Library

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Field Kit

This Field Kit (Tips for Interviewing Veterans) provides guidelines to help volunteers who are conducting interviews for the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress

By contributing an interview, you become a valued participant in the Veterans History Project and play an important role in the creation of a collection that will become a permanent part of the nation's record.

For paper copies of the Field Kit (Tips for Interviewing Veterans) this kit or the Memoir Kit (Tips for Writing Memoirs), please contact the toll-free message line at 1-888-371-5848 or complete the online kit request form.

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