<P> The Center for American War Letters is a center established in 2013 after historian Andrew Carroll donated more than 100,000 war letters to Chapman University . </P> <P> The Center for American War Letters (CAWL) is housed in the Leatherby Libraries building at Chapman University in Orange, California . Every American conflict is represented in the collections at CAWL, including more than 40 linear feet of correspondence from World War II . Scholars and the public can visit the Center and browse its holdings by visiting the Center during business hours . There are also regular exhibits at CAWL featuring the letters and other war ephemera . </P> <P> Notable holdings include a letter by a soldier writing on stationery discovered in Adolf Hitler's office and a Civil War letter from General William T. Sherman . The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently awarded a Foundations - level grant for the digitization of the letters held in this archive, so they may be available to researchers online . This award was made through the Standing Together Initiative sponsored by the NEH . Some parts of the holdings are already available in the Online Archive of California and in Chapman University's Digital Commons repository . </P>

Center for american war letters at chapman university