Some Military History
Internet Sites |
U.S. Military
Academy Library: Digital Collections
An interesting site especially
if you are looking for information about the training of
officers at the military academies. You canalso find maps,
photgraphs, journals and a few issues of the Assembly
Magazine, West Point's former alumni magazine.
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.
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. 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.
World War One: The
British Library
Interesting educational resource that includes scholarly articles,
posters, photographs and more. You can view the materials by date,
theme or creator.
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 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.
America During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic may seem a
little tangential to this topic, but this site provides an
overview of how the military dealt with the need to care for sick
soldiers while fighting trench warfare. The
Great War: A Visual History is a useful map based
interactive site that will help you to understand how the war
began, developed and ended. The
Interactive WWI Timeline also offers photos, maps and
videos that are useful.
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.
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. You might also look at the Korean
War Armistice site that is part of the Wilson Center
Digital Archive which has 62 documents arranged in chronological
order that help understand the strategic thinking of of
participants in the armistice.
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.
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.
Mississippi
State University History Archive
The Mississippi State University American History Archive is a
great place to start for pointers to military history sites.
The site is divided into 3 sections: articles, e-books and links.
Each section has a great diversity of information and the site
makes for interesting browsing.
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