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Some Military
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Battle
Lines: Letters from America's Wars
Correspondence from American conflicts
from the Revolution to Iraq. The letters are from officers, foot
soldiers and family members. The organization is a little awkward, but
the site is useful.
War
and Diplomacy
Excellent site from Rutgers University. Links to sites dealing with
a number of American conflicts and include primary documents, images,
and
multimedia presentations.
Military History
sites
from HistoryNet
Information on military engagements from around the world. There are
also quizzes to test your knowledge and links concerning current
interests.
War Times Journal
Very interesting site. Not very much data now but promises much more
for the future. Has an archives section (documents, memoirs, and
illustrations).
an articles section (the articles were written for the site by authors
whose credentials are not given), a "War Series" section (Napoleonic
Wars,
The Great War, the Civil War), a "Book Shop" section, and a "War And
Games"
section.
Center of Military History
Developed by the U.S. Army. Offers access to
an increasing number of books, pamphlets, and reports published by the
CMH, including one on the Gulf War. Has links to many electronic texts.
Extensive bibliographies relating to major U.S. wars. Many primary
source
documents. Has a search engine. Links to Navy, the Marines, and the Air
Force official web sites.
Yahoo:
Military History
Links to many sites relating to war, defense,
military science, etc., through the ages. An excellent site.
Some
American
Civil War Internet Sites
Compiled by Roger A. Griffin and Patrick Goines for Austin Community
College. Many sites, some of which are lists of links to other sites.
World War I: Trenches on the
Web
Developed and maintained by Mike Iavarone, a
computer scientist. Links to much information on the war. Also, access
to documents, maps, time lines, poetry, and more. Excellent search
engine.
Audio: songs of the war. Links to other sites, such as The World War I
Document Archive.
The
First World War
Focus is on Great Britain's participation. Part
of the Spartacus International Internet Encyclopedia, which, in turn,
is
part of Spartacus Educational, an educational publishing company in the
United Kingdom. In addition to sources, narrative, etc, there are links
to other sites.
The
World War I Documents Archive
Maintained at Brigham Young University, this archive holds
hundreds of diaries, treaties, official papers and other primary
documents
from international sources. There are also more than 1800 photographs
and
a section on civilian and military medical aspects of WWI.
First
World War.Com
A very useful overview with an impressive collection of links, photos,
primary sources, battlefield descriptions, technological innovations,
who
was who, multimedia files, clips of speeches and other materials. The
Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century is the
site for the PBS documentary and includes synopses of each episode,
interviews
with historians and other aspects about the war.
World
War II Resources
Images, primary documents, chronologies and more. All sensibly
organized.
World War II
Documents
Another collection of primary documents from the Avalon Project at Yale
Law School. You might also looko at the Documents of WWII site
maintained at Mount Holyoke. World War II Sites has a number of uselfule lilnks
especially concerning the Holocaust.
The Atomic Bomb and the End of WWII: A
Collection of Primary Soruces
Photographs and primary documents from the National Security
Archive. Short introductory comments accompany each document to help
readers understand the context of the sources.
Untold
Stories of D-Day
From National Geographic, this site has images, maps and a
multimedia
link to introduce you to the sights and sounds of the D-Day invasion.
The
experiences of five survivors are also retold.
Korean War Project
Developed by photojournalist/writer Hal Barker.
Access to a number of eyewitness accounts, facts, and figures, photos,
maps, etc.
Cuban
Missile Crisis
Part of the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School. The site includes
some general information and more than 200 primary documents.
Time Magazine
You might be interested in seeing how Time Magazine covered WWII
and the Vietnam
War.
Vietnam: Yesterday
and
Today
Created by Sandra M. Wittman, Professor of
Library
Services at Oakton Community College, Skokie, Illinois. Links to
documents,
articles, photos, diaries. Links to other Vietnam War Web sites.
Investigating
the Vietnam War
Part of the Spartacus International Internet
Encyclopedia, which, in turn, is part of Spartacus Educational, an
educational
publishing company in the United Kingdom. In addition to sources,
narrative,
etc, there are links to other sites, plus a feature that allows a
person
to query a historian of the war.
Attack
on America
Part of the Avalon Project created by the Yale Law School. The site
includes press releases, briefings, legislation, executive orders
that relate to the terrorist attack on 9/11. Chronologically
arranged list aided by a variety of drop-down
menus.
Women in the
Military
The purpose of the Women's Memorial Web site is to
recognize
the achievements of women who have served in the military from the
American
Revolution to the present.
National D-Day
Museum
Useful introduction to the people and events surrounding D-Day. The
site includes links to other webpages, notes on current exhibits,
timelines,
and FAQs.
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