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How It Was: The Tears and Triumphs of Men and Women at War
http://veterans.lpl.org/online.html
The online site for the attached How it Was: The Tears and Triumphs of Men and Women at War, a list of on-line resources on the American Revolutionary War, Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and Gulf War-Desert Shield/Storm. PDF file

U.S Navy History
http://www.history.navy.mil/
This is an excellent, well-organized site from the U.S. Navy on its history in the wars of conflicts of the U.S. Navy (click on this link—War and Conflicts of the U.S. Navy).  Scroll down to the Naval History by Period.  Here are links to information on the Navy’s role from the American Revolution (1775) to Desert Storm (1991) and including conflicts such as Slave Trade Patrols (1820) and Yangtze Service (1926).

DefenseLink
http://www.defenselink.mil/
DefenseLink is the official web site for the Department of Defense and the starting point for finding U.S. military information online.

Campaign Atlases – USMA
http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/atlas%20home.htm
Provided by the History Department of the United States Military Academy (West Point), this site offers a collection maps that cover international and civil conflicts from American colonial campaigns to Somalia in 1992-93. The maps are browsed by war/ conflict.

People on War
http://www.icrc.org/eng/onwar
The People on War Project, from the International Committee of the Red Cross, has conducted interviews and surveys with over 20,000 people in seventeen countries on their perceptions of what is right and wrong in wartime. 

Imperial War Museum London—Online Exhibitions 
http://www.iwm.org.uk/online/index.htm
Some of the online exhibitions include Recollections of the Korean War 1950-1953, Gallipoli (WWI) and The Fatal Salient (WWI).

Newseum: War Stories 
http://www.newseum.org/warstories/
The multimedia power of the web helps you understand what it's like to be a war correspondent. War Stories presents riveting first-person accounts spanning World War II and the Persian Gulf War. [Requires either Windows Media Player 7.0 or Quicktime.]

Crimes of War 
http://www.crimesofwar.org
Hosted by American University, this project is a collaborative effort of journalists, lawyers, and scholars "that seeks to raise awareness of the laws of war."  This is a very interesting site.

American Revolution            [Return to the top]

Spy Letters of the American Revolution
http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/
This site, from the Clements Library at the University of Michigan, provides an “amazingly complete look at the everyday intelligence operations of both the British and American armies.” The letters may be searched through their stories, their methods, a timeline, biographies, or a map.  The stories provide background contextual information about each letter; the methods describe techniques and formats.  The map provides a visual representation of the letters' travels.  Biographies and a timeline provide supplementary information for further reference.  Prints, portraits, and maps also supply additional background to the contents 
of the letters.

Black Loyalists  (CDC)
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/blackloyalists/index.htm
This exhibits, from Canada’s Digital Collections Program, covers a special group of American colonists who supported the British, the Black Loyalists freed and escaped slaves. This site is the story of their service in the American Revolution.

Mexican American War                  [Return to the top]

The US-Mexican War (1846-1848)
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/mainframe.html
The US-Mexican War (1846-1848) site chronicles the events of the dispute over the official border of Texas through multiple viewpoints.  Included at this rich site are: histories, articles, and essays produced by historians, scholars, and other experts; a detailed timeline, which provides a chronological context for events occurring on both sides of the border; a moderated, interactive discussion area for visitors to post their ideas and responses; and a resources section to guide visitors to other relevant Websites.

The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848)
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/
The PBS site on two Nations, one border and the war that transformed them- The U.S. - Mexican War. See resource links.

Civil War                    [Return to the top]

U.S. Civil War Center
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/
The U.S. Civil War Center's mission is to “locate, index, and make available all appropriate private and public data regarding the Civil War."  The site, from Louisiana State University, includes all aspects of the Civil War and Reconstruction with links to letters, diaries, museums, discussion groups, newspapers and Web accessible documents.

The American Civil War Home Page
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
The American Civil War Homepage began as a class at the University of Tennessee's School of Information Sciences.  The page has links to hundreds of resources and is a good place to start for Civil War information.

Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War
http://www.civilwarletters.com/home.html
The letters written by Newton Scott, Private, Company A, of the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers, from 1862 thru 1865 are filled with rich details of the war and the living conditions in the Union camps in Mississippi, Missouri, Iowa, and Arkansas. The letters also provide a glimpse of the personal emotions of a 21-year old farm boy uprooted from family, friends and sweetheart.

The Civil War Letters of Galutia York
http://www.morrisville.edu/library/local_history/civil_war/
This is the story of Galutia York, a 19-year old son of a farm family from Hubbardsville in Madison County, New York, who enlisted in the Union Army in 1862.  His 48 letters home are published.  He served until May of 1863 when he died in Louisiana.  He was never in a shooting battle, but the enemy he fought was just as deadly as any Rebel sharpshooter - disease.

U.S. Colored Troops: Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/
This site, from the National Park Service (NPS), contains basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War.  It contains the names of 235,000 soldiers who served in the United States Colored Troops (USCT). In addition to the 235,000 names, the current data includes 180 histories of USCT units/regiments and links to information on their most significant battles. Additional resources at the site include a brief history of the USCT and information and links to NPS African-American Civil War sites.

Civil War Women
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html
This site provides an extensive, annotated collection of "links to primary sources on the Internet that are directly related to women and the Civil War." It is organized into three categories: Diaries, Letters, Documents; Photographs and Prints; and General Civil War Pages.

The Civil War
http://www.educationplanet.com/articles/civilwar.html

  Civil War Index Page  
http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm
This site has information on such topics as money, small arms to diaries, letters and memoirs from the Civil War period.

  US Civil War Generals
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/generals.html
This site is a concise index to the Generals who fought on both sides of the US Civil War.

The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the 
American Civil War
http://jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU/vshadow2/
This site explores neighboring communities in the Shenandoah Valley, one Northern and one Southern, before, during and after the Civil War. 

The Time of the Lincolns  
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/
This site explores Abraham Lincoln’s life and his decisions on politics, slavery and abolition.  The site offers a view of a slave cabin, salve living conditions, a Union and Confederate soldier’s thoughts on going into battle and much more.

LSU Libraries Special Collections  
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/llmvc.html
Recognized as one of the nation’s premier repositories for materials relating to the antebellum plantation, Civil War, and Reconstruction South, the LLMVC includes the papers of individuals and families, records of plantations, merchants and financial institutions, and the records of political, social, and labor organizations. A subject guide to the collection is available.

Introduction to the Christie Papers 
http://www.mnhs.org/library/Christie/intropage.html
William and Thomas Christie served in the First Minnesota Battery through June 1865 and their younger brother, Alexander, enlisted in an infantry regiment in fall 1864. All three brothers were excellent writers, and each wrote extensively while in the Army. Their letters are full of revealing observations on war, society, and contemporary politics.

Civil War Menu 
http://americanhistory.about.com/index.htm?once=true&
This site is About.com’s extensive list of Civil War resources.

EyeWitness to the Civil War
http://www.ibiscom.com/cwfrm.htm
This site offers short, illustrated pieces on the Civil War.

The Civil War Home Page
http://www.civil-war.net/
Material at this site includes information on battles, Letters & Diaries, Documents, Associations, Research Records, Photos,Biographical Information, Reenacting and Unit Information.

Spanish American War    [Return to the top]

Brandeis University Spanish Civil War Collection
http://www.library.brandeis.edu/specialcollections/collections/
mancoll2.html#spanish
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive (ALBA) was founded in 1975 by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (VALB) to preserve the history of the Brigade's actions in Spain and the post-war activities 
of its veterans in America. Part of ALBA's mission includes supervising the comprehensive archive of materials related to North American involvement in the Spanish Civil War at Brandeis University. The site provides a description of the collections, a select reading list, and 
related links.

The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/sawhtml/sawhome.html
The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures is part of the U.S. Library of Congress American Memory collection.  This site offers 53 motion pictures from the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection.  Subjects include troops, ships, notable figures, parades, and reenactments of battles. Films are offered in chronological order with brief essays on their historical context.

WWI       [Return to the top]

American Leaders Speak: Recordings from WW1 and the 1920 Election
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/
This site, part of the US Library of Congress American Memory Project, is a collection of sound recordings of speeches by American leaders.  The speeches focus on issues and events surrounding the 
First World War and the subsequent presidential election of 1920. Speakers include Warren G. Harding, James Cox, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel Gompers, Henry Cabot Lodge, 
and John J. Pershing.

1918 - 1998: The Art of the First World War
http://www.art-ww1.com/
Sponsored by UNESCO, eight European museums present The 
Art of the First World War.  The exhibition features over 100 
paintings by 54 artists from museums all over the world.   You 
can take a guided tour through the seven sections of the exhibition: 
War Declared, The Fighting Men, The Age of Artillery, The 
Battlefield, Total War, Suffering, and Death. Most of the images 
have extensive captions. Many of the prints and paintings not only document the war itself but also represent each individual artist's experience of the war.

The World War I Document Archive
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/
Compiled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L) and provided by Brigham Young University, this site 
offers a large number of primary documents related to the First 
World War. The main body of documents is sorted chronologically 
and includes government papers, memoranda, letters by significant figures, reports, and agreements. Other documents include 
Conventions, Treaties, Memorials, and Personal Reminiscences. Additional resources at the site include a biographical dictionary, an image archive, commentary articles, and a collection of related links.

World War I History Commission Questionnaires
http://eagle.vsla.edu/wwi/
The Library of Virginia has put online material from the Virginia War History Commission including 14,900 four-page questionnaires from 
a survey of WWI veterans in Virginia.  The database is fully 
searchable and free.

World War I: Trenches on the Web
http://www.worldwar1.com/
Trenches on the Web, provided by Mike Iavarone, is an excellent resource on WWI.  The core of the site is the Reference Library, the best place to start.  Along with information on when, who, what, 
where related to WWI, there are maps and theme-based tours of 
the site, a discussion forum, and a frequently updated What's New section for veteran users.

The Great War
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/10/98/
world_war_i/newsid_197000/197437.stm
This site from the BBC gives overviews on four battles-- Gallipoli, Verdun, the Somme, and Passchendaele -- with excerpts from letters and archive audio interviews from veterans recalling the horror and ironies of the “war to end all wars." In addition, there is a ten-minute video showing film footage and photographs from the battlefields.

Docudrama World War I
http://www.terrace.qld.edu.au/academic/socenv/junhistory/10ww1.htm

KIDS Report: World War I
http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/detectives/kids/
KIDS-000411.html;mark=43,22,33#WN_mark

WWII     [Return to the top]

World War II Primary Source Document Collection
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/
The Primary Source Document Collection holds a large number of primary source materials related to World War II. Additional resources include timelines, maps, extensive information on Pearl Harbor, links to complete online books, and a collection of related links.

B24.NET WWII B-24 Liberator Bombers
http://www.b24.net/
Primary documents from the USAF 392nd Bomb Group.

World War Links
http://killeenroos.com/link/war.htm#WorldWar

The World War 2 Timeline Website
http://www.worldwar-2.net/

 Remembering Pearl Harbor @nationalgeographic.com
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/
This site offers a range of facts and figures on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The main attraction is a very interactive map/timeline which relates the story of the attack and offers numerous opportunities 
to find out more about specific events and ships.

 After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afcphhtml/afcphhome.html
From American Memory, this collection contains field recordings of over 200 ordinary Americans' reactions to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.

USAFE Berlin Airlift Site   
http://www.usafe.af.mil/berlin/berlin.htm
The USAFE Berlin Airlift Web Site was created by the USAFE Office of Public Affairs.  The site contains detailed information on the Airlift, photos and related sites to other military and veterans' web pages dealing with the Airlift.

BBC: WW2 People's War    
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2
This site gives American students another view of life during WWII. The BBC has created this website in an attempt to allow people to share their reminisces of World War II. Users can browse stories by date, location,  type or categories such as Childhood and Evacuation, Family Life, The Blitz, and Home Front.  The site also offers some links to other online features offered by the BBC.

Cold War                     [Return to the top]

CWIHP: Cold War International History Project
http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm
This site, established by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and part of the Smithsonian Institutes web site, contains a large collection of historical material on the governments and people on all sides of the Cold War.  Registration (free) is required to access the documents and discussion groups.  The core of the site is the CWIHP Virtual Library, a searchable collection of documents, working papers, and articles from the CWIHP Bulletin. The library covers numerous topics related to the Cold War and users can sort the documents by several methods, including keyword, subject, and geographic subject.

Cold War
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/
Cold War is a major, 24-part series from CNN and BBC2.   The 
site contains video previews and multimedia recaps of each episode; 
video, audio, and text excerpts from nearly 100 interviews filmed for 
the series; text from archival documents and contemporaneous Time and Russian newspaper stories; in-depth sections on Cold War culture; and a Knowledge Bank section containing a glossary, "Cold Warrior" 
profiles, related links, and a chronology.

Korean War                 [Return to the top]

Korean American Digital Archive
http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/arc/digarchives/kada/

Experiencing War: Stories from the Veterans History Project
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/stories/
Developed by the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, this site offers visual and written testimony about the experiences of United States veterans.

Project WhistleStop/Truman Presidential Library Digital Archives--The Korean War
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/korea/large/

Cuban Missile Crisis     [Return to the top]

The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A Political Perspective After 40 Years
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/
George Washington University's National Security Archive on the Cuban Missile Crisis with links to images, videos, and primary documents.

CIA Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
http://www.odci.gov/csi/books/cubamis/book1.pdf
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has the .pdf version of a 1992 print book containing a large selection (over 100) of declassified documents on the crisis.

Vietnam War                        [Return to the top]

The Wars for Viet Nam: 1945-1975
http://students.vassar.edu/~vietnam/
This site was developed for a course at Vassar College taught by Professor Robert Brigham, the first American scholar given access to 
the Vietnamese archives on the war in Hanoi. The site is divided into three areas: an overview of the war, original documents, and links.  
The gem of the site is Vietnamese papers translated by Brigham.

Battlefield: Vietnam
http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/
This is an excellent overview of the Vietnam War by PBS that 
provides a brief history of the conflict by Robert Brigham of Vassar College, a detailed timeline, information on Vietcong guerrilla tactics, 
a detailed look at the siege of Khe Sanh using Shockwave Fash, as 
well as specifications of the six types of aircraft used during the war. Links to other sources, including another PBS series, Vietnam: A Television History, are also provided.

Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/
This site, put together by Ms. Wittman the Librarian at Oakton Community College, is an excellent directory of Vietnam information.  The site was created to provide students and teachers with useful material to help them learn about the war.  There are annotated links 
to research material including books, files and documents written from the Vietnamese perspective, war literature (drama, fiction, personal accounts and non-fiction) and links to information on Vietnam today.

Vietnam War, 1961-1970
http://www.multied.com/vietnam/
This site, from the publishers of the MultiEDUCATOR's CD-ROM history of the 1960s, has a timeline that covers the major events of the war including brief summaries, a graph of Troop Strength and another 
on Fatalities.  The list of other web resources is extensive and includes resources on memorial sites, units, and personal accounts.

The Vietnam War Declassification Project, April 2000
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/exhibits/vietnam/vietnam.htm
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon, the staff of the Gerald R. Ford Library reviewed for possible declassification nearly 40,000 pages of National Security Adviser files. This exhibit illustrates the wealth of material now available for research.

The Vietnam Project
http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/
The Virtual Vietnam Archive enables one to "conduct research directly from universities, schools, libraries, and homes." Currently, the project contains over 1.5 million pages of materials online, ranging from photographs, slides, audio and video recordings, and a number of oral histories.  One particular highlight is the number of oral history audio files online here. These are drawn from a number of persons involved with the Vietnam War in a number of capacities.

Gulf War                        [Return to the top]

Fog of War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/fogofwar/
fogofwar.htm
This site created and maintained by the Washington Post, covers the Gulf War.  It is divided into 6 areas: introduction, analysis, war goals, 
air strikes, resources and images.  The resources section contains the index of all the documents, photos, videos and maps used.

Gulf War: An Oral History
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/
This is a PBS Frontline site on the Gulf War. The information is presented in six main sections.  The first three sections are: Oral 
History which includes information on the Decision Makers, the Commanders, the Iraqis and the Analysts; War Stories which has RealAudio and written first-hand accounts of the exploits and experiences of soldiers and pilots in the Gulf War; and Voices in the Storm is a BBC radio series on the war.  In addition there is are 
maps, a timeline, and a section on weapons used including aircraft, ground systems, munitions and space systems.

Kosovo                 [Return to the top]

Conflict in the Balkans  
http://libraryautomation.com/nymas/nymas2100balkans.htm
A comprehensive list of links on the conflict in Kosovo from the New York Military Affairs Symposium.

 BBC News—Kosovo Fact Files 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/kosovo/

CBC News – Indepth: Kosovo in Crisis
http://cbc.ca/news/indepth/kosovo/

Gulf War II

A Nation at War
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/worldspecial/
Complete coverage of the war in Iraq from The New York Times, with related domestic and international news. Includes multimedia coverage, wire news, interactive graphics, maps, Gulf War archived articles, and more. Requires free, one-time registration.

War in Iraq
http://www.crf-usa.org/Iraqwar_html/iraqwar_home.html
Online lesson plans and links from the Constitutional Rights Foundation.

Teaching About War
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/war/index.shtml
This material has a very liberal bent that focus specifically on Iraq and the unfolding situation between Iraq and the United States, as well as articles that address the more general issues of armed conflict and society's priorities.

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