War and Healing: A Century of Veterans’ Reintegration

FAIN: AV-260657-18

Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami, FL 33199-2516)
Jessica L. Adler (Project Director: November 2017 to March 2021)

A two-day intensive training seminar followed by two four-week discussion programs for veterans in the Miami, Florida area.

War and Healing, overseen by Florida International University (FIU), and supported by the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum, the Florida State University Institute for World War II and the Human Experience, and the Miami Vet Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), has three primary goals. First, it will enable Miami-area veterans to explore the process of post-service reintegration by examining primary sources, works of fiction and non-fiction, artwork, and audiovisual materials focused on the aftermaths of World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Second, it will create a network of NEH-trained discussion facilitators equipped to offer veteran-focused discussion groups at diverse Florida institutions. Finally, it will serve as a potential model for how universities and Department of Veterans Affairs facilities may partner to offer compelling, community-based, humanities-centered programming.

Associated Products

Veterans’ perspectives, and the great task remaining (Article)
Title: Veterans’ perspectives, and the great task remaining
Author: Jessica L. Adler
Abstract: At a moment when so much divides us, a small veterans’ discussion group served as a model for how people with very little in common could come together to talk history and consider and respect the plurality of the human experience—at war and beyond.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://ncph.org/history-at-work/veterans-perspectives-task-remaining/
Access Model: Open access
Format: Other
Publisher: History@Work, the National Council on Public History blog

Humanities-Based Programming for Veterans: Report on a University-Community Partnership (Report)
Title: Humanities-Based Programming for Veterans: Report on a University-Community Partnership
Author: Jessica L. Adler
Author: Brahim Almarales
Abstract: This is the final project report for War and Healing: A Century of Veterans’ Reintegration, a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded reading and discussion program for veterans, which took place in Miami, Florida in 2018-2019. It provides information about how the program was executed, as well as a summary of “lessons learned.” It is intended to be of use to humanists aiming to oversee partnerships with veterans’ organizations and local arts/cultural organizations. We provide an overview of War and Healing, including its structure and goals, as well as a description of the organizations and individuals who oversaw and supported it. We also provide information about program “outcomes” based on surveys with facilitators and participants. The Conclusion offers takeaway points regarding the implementation of humanities-focused and collaborative educational programs.
Date: 09/15/19
Primary URL: http://historyofhealth.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/WarHealingFinalRptFINAL3.pdf

War and Healing Participant Guidebook (Course or Curricular Material)
Title: War and Healing Participant Guidebook
Author: Jessica L. Adler and Brahim Almarales
Abstract: This is the participant guidebook for the War and Healing program, which took place in Miami, Florida in 2018-2019. Distributed to program participants at the beginning of each discussion series, it contains an explanation of the program, reading lists, and reading excerpts.
Year: 2018
Primary URL: http://historyofhealth.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WHParticGuideLargeF.pdf
Audience: General Public

AHA Member Spotlight: Jessica L. Adler (Blog Post)
Title: AHA Member Spotlight: Jessica L. Adler
Author: Matthew Keough
Abstract: A profile of the Project Director, which mentions the Dialogues on the Experience of War project.
Date: 09/25/2018
Primary URL: https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/september-2018/aha-member-spotlight-jessica-l-adler
Blog Title: Perspectives Daily
Website: historians.org

History professor awarded prestigious NEH Grant (Article)
Title: History professor awarded prestigious NEH Grant
Author: No byline
Abstract: Jessica L. Adler, a joint professor in the Department of History and the Robert Stempel College of Public Health, has been awarded a $90,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the development of her public history project “War and Healing: A Century of Veterans’ Reintegration.”
Year: 2018
Primary URL: https://issuu.com/fiupublications/docs/18874_sipa_greenschool_yir18_versio?e=1346729/69239513
Format: Magazine
Periodical Title: The Green School Magazine
Publisher: FIU Green School Magazine

FSU’s World War II Institute collaborates on NEH-funded ‘Dialogues on the Experience of War’ program (Article)
Title: FSU’s World War II Institute collaborates on NEH-funded ‘Dialogues on the Experience of War’ program
Author: Gabriella Paez
Abstract: Florida State University’s Institute on World War II and the Human Experience is collaborating with a history professor at Florida International University on a program to help veterans living in South Florida to more effectively return to civilian life after their military service. The project, which is funded by a $91,309 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Dialogues on the Experience of War program, is titled “War and Healing: A Century of Veterans’ Reintegration.” Its goal is to train facilitators to run workshops for veterans in Miami that will aid them in exploring the often-complicated process of reintegration into society after leaving the military.
Year: 2018
Primary URL: https://artsandsciences.fsu.edu/article/fsus-world-war-ii-institute-collaborates-neh-funded-dialogues-experience-war-program
Format: Other
Periodical Title: FSU Arts and Sciences News
Publisher: Florida State University Arts and Sciences News

Humanities-Based Programming for Veterans: Report on a University-Community Partnership (Report)
Title: Humanities-Based Programming for Veterans: Report on a University-Community Partnership
Author: Jessica L. Adler
Author: Brahim Almarales
Abstract: This is the final project report for War and Healing: A Century of Veterans’ Reintegration, a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded reading and discussion program for veterans, which took place in Miami, Florida in 2018-2019. It provides information about how the program was executed, as well as a summary of “lessons learned.” It is intended to be of use to humanists aiming to oversee partnerships with veterans’ organizations and local arts/cultural organizations. We provide an overview of War and Healing, including its structure and goals, as well as a description of the organizations and individuals who oversaw and supported it. We also provide information about program “outcomes” based on surveys with facilitators and participants. The Conclusion offers takeaway points regarding the implementation of humanities- focused and collaborative educational programs.
Date: 10/30/2019
Primary URL: http://historyofhealth.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/WarHealingFinalRptFINAL3.pdf

War and Healing: A Century of Veterans Reintegration [Participant Guidebook] (Course or Curricular Material)
Title: War and Healing: A Century of Veterans Reintegration [Participant Guidebook]
Author: Jessica L. Adler
Author: Brahim Almarales
Abstract: This Guidebook was prepared for participants in War and Healing reading/discussion groups that took place in the Fall of 2018 and the Winter of 2019. It contains general information about the program and its goals, reading lists, and reading excerpts to be discussed.
Year: 2018
Primary URL: http://historyofhealth.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WHParticGuideLargeF.pdf
Audience: General Public

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