Reading 1: Patrick Hagopian, "Voices From Vietnam: Veterans' Oral Histories in the Classroom"

Click on the URL below to go to the specified reading. Then answer the following questions in the spaces provided.

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/87.2/hagopian.html)
1 What is the "wannabe phenomenon," according to Hagopian?
2 What kinds of characteristics tend to be conventional in veteran's narratives? Why?
3 What advice does Hagopian have to say about using oral histories in the classroom? Do you agree? Why or why not?


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