Information
and
Primary
Documents
from
Different
US
Wars
Hotlist
of
Internet
Resources
for
US
Wars
from
Hold
the
Presses
Task
Letters
from
an
Iowa
Soldier
in
the
Civil
War
http://www.civilwarletters.com/home.html
These
letters
are
part
of
a
collection
written
by
Newton
Robert
Scott,
Private,
Company
A,
of
the
36th
Infantry,
Iowa
Volunteers.
Scott's
letters
to
Hannah
are
filled
with
rich
details
of
the
war
and
the
living
conditions
in
the
Union
camps
in
Mississippi,
Missouri,
Iowa
and
Arkansas.
He
tells
of
the
terrible
diseases
that
took
a
heavier
toll
than
Confederate
bullets,
and
the
soldiers'
frustration
and
impatience
with
the
politicians
in
Washington.
The
United
States
Civil
War
Center
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/
The
stated
mission
of
this
site
is
to
"locate,
index,
and
/
or
make
available
all
appropriate
private
and
public
data
regarding
the
Civil
War"
and
to
"promote
the
study
of
the
Civil
War
from
the
perspectives
of
all
professions,
occupations,
and
academic
disciplines."
What
did
you
do
in
the
War
Grandma?
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/
This
oral
history
project,
Rhode
Island
Women
during
World
War
II,
was
written
by
students
in
the
Honors
English
Program
at
South
Kingstown
High
School.
Judi
Scott
and
Linda
P.
Wood
(in
partnership
with
Brown
University)
have
done
a
nice
job
of
providing
online
articles
and
resource
links
about
oral
history
as
well
as
the
time
period.
Ulysses
Grant
Memoirs
http://home.nycap.rr.com/history/grant.html
The
memoirs
of
U.S.
Grant,
Civil
War
hero
and
US
President,
have
been
described
as
one
of
the
finest
pieces
of
military
autobiography
ever
written.
A
Professor
at
University
of
Illinois-Chicago,
Richard
Jensen
has
put
all
70
Chapters
online.
The
American
Civil
War
Home
Page
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
The
American
Civil
War
Home
Page
has
links
to
hundreds
of
resources,
including
general
resources
such
as
timelines
and
overviews,
images,
letters,
accounts
and
diaries,
bibliographies,
state
studies,
specific
battles,
and
rosters,
among
others.
It
is
a
very
comprehensive
page,
and
a
good
place
to
start
for
Civil
War
information.
Confederate
Broadside
Poetry
Collection
(Z.
Smith
Reynolds
Library)
http://www.wfu.edu/Library/rarebook/broads.html
Provided
by
Wake
Forest
University
Library,
this
collection
features
over
250
poems
written
by
southerners
and
Confederate
sympathizers
during
the
American
Civil
War.
The
online
examples
include
scanned
pamphlets
and
clippings
as
well
as
broadsides.
The
collection
is
recognized
as
strongly
representative
of
popular
Southern
war
poetry.
The
Valley
of
the
Shadow
Archive:
Two
Communities
in
the
American
Civil
War
http://jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU/vshadow2/
This
project
is
product
of
a
University
of
Virginia
research
Project.
It
seeks
to
document
the
story
of
the
Civil
War
as
seen
by
the
people
of
two
communities
in
the
Great
Valley
of
the
United
States
which
were
separated
by
only
a
few
hundred
miles:
Franklin
County,
Pennsylvania
and
Augusta
County,
Virginia.
Users
can
take
a
walking
tour
of
the
archive
or
search
its
rooms,
which
include
Public
Records,
Newspapers,
Letters
and
Diaries,
Church
Records,
Military
Records,
or
Maps
and
Images.
The
site
also
features
a
Reference
Center,
which
includes
a
bibliography,
tools
for
using
the
archive,
and
examples
from
teachers
who
have
used
the
project
in
the
classroom.
World
War
I:
Trenches
on
the
Web
http://www.worldwar1.com/
Trenches
on
the
Web,
provided
by
Mike
Iavarone,
is
an
excellent
resource.
The
core
of
the
site
is
the
Reference
Library,
which
features
annotated
and
hyperlinked
timelines,
atlases
of
participating
nations,
a
Special
Features
section
containing
a
large
number
of
contributed
pieces
on
a
wide
range
of
related
topics,
a
map
room,
and
a
photo
archive
and
much
more.
The
Civil
War
Letters
of
Galutia
York
http://www.morrisville.edu/library/local_history/civil_war/
Colgate
University’s
Case
Library
produces
this
site.
A
soldier's
48
letters,
previously
unpublished,
have
been
inventoried,
cataloged,
transcribed,
and
are
now
accessible
through
the
World
Wide
Web.
Galutia
York
was
the
19-year
old
son
of
a
farm
family
from
Hubbardsville
in
Madison
County,
New
York.
He
enlisted
in
the
114th
NYSV
in
August
of
1862
and
served
until
May
of
1863
when
he
died
in
Louisiana.
Additional
illustrations
of
local
interest
are
being
added
as
well
as
illustrations
of
some
of
the
sights
Galutia
saw
and
wrote
home
about.
Vietnam:
Yesterday
and
Today
http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/
This
page
presents
a
war
chronology,
a
list
of
ways
Vietnam
differed
from
other
wars,
bibliographies
of
Vietnam
War
fiction,
non-fiction,
films,
and
books
presenting
Vietnamese
and
women's
points
of
view
on
the
conflict
in
addition
to
links
to
war
sites
and
those
relating
to
Vietnam
today.
The
Wars
for
Viet
Nam:
1945
to
1975
http://students.vassar.edu/~vietnam/
This
site
offers
students
an
opportunity
to
examine
primary
sources
from
the
war.
This
site
also
has
links
to
poetry/writing
by
veterans.
Edwin
E.
Moïse
Vietnam
War
Bibliography:
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~eemoise/bibliography.html
Professor
Edwin
E.
Moise
of
Clemson
University
has
provided
a
vast
bibliography
of
the
Vietnam
War.
Containing
mostly
books,
it
is
divided
into
three
major
sections:
microfilmed
document
collections,
general
publications,
and
U.S.
government
publications.
Academic
Info
United
States
History:
Home
Page
&
Index
http://www.academicinfo.net/histus.html
This
site
is
an
annotated
directory
of
Internet
resources
on
the
history
of
America.
Newsuem:
War
Stories
http://www.newseum.org/warstories/index.htm
Crimes
of
War
Project
http://www.crimesofwar.org/
Literary
Criticism
Information
Critical
Reading:
A
Guide
http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/criticalreading.html
This
site
is
a
guide
designed
by
John
Lye,
a
professor
in
the
Departments
of
English
and
Communication
Studies
at
Brock
University
(Canada),
for
his
first
year
literature
students.
The
guide
contains
sections
on
poetry,
fiction,
prose
in
fiction,
and
writing
analytical
essays.
Problem
of
Meaning
http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/meaning.html
This
site
is
also
a
guide
designed
by
John
Lye,
a
professor
in
the
Departments
of
English
and
Communication
Studies
at
Brock
University
(Canada),
for
his
first
year
literature
students.
Problem
of
Meaning
discusses
the
meaning
of
literature
from
the
point
of
view
of
the
author,
the
text,
and
the
reader.
The
Internet
Public
Library
Online
Literary
Criticism
Collection
http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
This
literary
meta
site
contains
over
1,000
annotated
meta
sites
and
articles
devoted
to
literary
criticism,
biographical,
and
other
information
about
123
authors
from
Dante
Alighieri
to
Arthur
Miller
to
William
Butler
Yeats.
The
links
to
criticism
information
can
be
to
sites
or
articles
(some
of
which
have
access
restrictions).
Visitors
can
browse
the
site
by
author,
title,
or
literary
period
(for
British
and
American
literature).
In
addition,
both
a
literary
criticism
guide
and
a
pathfinder
are
provided
for
those
who
wish
to
further
explore
web
and
print
resources
on
the
topic.
Online
Writing
Assistant
The
Paradigm
Online
Writing
Assistant
http://www.powa.org/
The
Paradigm
Online
Writing
Assistant
helps
students
think
about
how
to
conceive
a
writing
project.
This
site
contains
sections
on
discovering
what
to
write,
organizing,
revising
and
editing
your
writing,
various
types
of
essays,
including
thesis/support,
argumentative,
exploratory,
and
informal,
and
documenting
sources.
Each
section
is
accompanied
by
activities,
which
help
the
student
to
incorporate
the
concepts.
Purdue
University's
Online
Writing
Lab
(OWL)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
This
site
offers
handouts
on
writing
skills.
The
collection
could
be
called
an
online
grammar
book
or
a
basic
writing
course.
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