Military History Online Resources
World Military History
Revolutionary War
Civil War
World War I
World War II
Korean War
Vietnam War
Cold War
Gulf War
US Military & Naval History
Nuclear Weapons
Military Intelligence
World Military History
Historical Text Archive
Links to sites on war--various time periods, battles, countries.
A Concrete Curtain: The
Life and Death of the Berlin Wall
For European Recovery: the 50th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
An online exhibition from the Library of Congress.
The
Berlin Airlift
Background, documents, oral histories, photos, and other resources from the Truman Presidential Museum and Library.
Landforces of Britain, The Empire,
and Commonwealth.
This Web site links to histories of regiments of a number of
nations and information on the military history of all the nations,
territories, Dominions, Colonies, Protectorates and Mandates
that were at any time a part of the British Empire and Commonwealth.
Rulers
Contains lists of heads of state and heads of government of all currently
existing countries and territories. Also included are the subdivisions
of some countries (the links are at the bottom of the respective country
entries), as well as some international organizations. Foreign ministers
of all countries are listed separately.
The Montreal Institute for Genocide and
Human Rights Studies
Provides Holocaust Survival Memoirs and links to sites on human rights,
genocide studies, war and conflicts.
Revolutionary War
Benjamin Marston
Diaries
Contains full-text diaries with images of a Revolutionary War loyalist.
National Park Service
Museum Collections: American Revolutionary War
This online exhibit features National Park sites and collections commemorating
significant events and individuals of the American Revolutionary War.
Civil War
The U.S. Civil War Center
Statistical comparisons of military enrollment, casualties, and financial
costs for major U.S. wars.
The American Civil War Homepage
Comprehensive list of links to Civil War battles, primary sources,
timelines, and more.
Dakota
State University
Links to Civil War sites divided by subject.
Civil War Photographs
Contains 1,118 images, including scenes of military personnel, preparations
for battle, and battle after-effects. Also includes portraits of both
Confederate and Union officers. Offers a Civil War timeline.
World War I
The World War I Document Archive
Documents on World War I including treaties, convention documentation,
and personal narratives.
The Great War
This is a good starting place for primary and secondary sources, especially
personal narratives.
Mount Miguel Library
An extensive list of links to sites on World War I.
World War II
Avalon Project at
Yale Law School
WWII Primary Source Documents online.
WWII Timeline
From the University of San Diego, includes photos, maps, and links
to other resources.
World War II Plus 55
Day to day accounts of WWII from the warship USS Washington.
History
of Internment
Information about U.S. internment camps during World War II from the
Texas Handbook Online.
Korean War
Korean War Project
Primary and secondary documents, photographs.
Examining
the Korean War
Small collection of oral history transcripts and maps.
Vietnam War
Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
Articles and links to other sites and electronic journals.
United States in
Vietnam 1945-1975
Vietnam
War Declassification Project
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 on Vietnam. This site contains a sample of the library's holdings,
presented as scanned images of these primary source documents.
The Cold War
The Cold War From Yalta to
Malta
Documentary By CNN has maps, articles, biographies, etc., on the Korean
War, Vietnam War, and the USSR in Afghanistan.
The National Security Archive
Declassified U.S. government documents organized by topic. Cold
War in Europe, nuclear history, U.S. intelligence, Cuban Missle Crisis.
Cold War Web Resources
From the BBC
Overview of the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy administration, and the fall of the Soviet Union.
Cold
War International History Project
Materials from governments on all sides of Cold War.
The
Age of McCarthyism
Includes excerpts from the book The Age of Mccarthyism: A Brief
History With Documents by Ellen Schrecker.
The
Cold War and Red Scare in Washington State
From the University of Washington.
Famous
American Trials: The Rosenbergs
The Gulf War
Frontline: The Gulf
War
From PBS, interviews with military leaders, soldiers, and analysts.
Information on weapons and technology. Includes a chronology of the
war.
Gulf War Veterans Resource
Site provides content on the health effects created by the Persian
Gulf War; it is also a community center for veterans of the conflict.
Operation Desert Storm:
Ten Years After
From George Washington University, a collection of declassified and
unclassified documents concerning Desert Storm focusing on intelligence,
space support, Scud-hunting, and stealth elements of the conflict.
US Military and Naval History
The Smithsonian
Institute's Armed Forces History
Information on U.S. military history--all time periods, all branches
of the armed forces.
The Military Order of the
Purple Heart
A brief history of the Purple Heart.
The U.S. Army Center of
Military History
Online articles, images, and book excerpts. The Center also has names
and full-text of citations for all Medal
of Honor recipients.
WWW Virtual
Library of Naval / Maritime History and Strategic Thought
Links to sites on all subjects and time periods.
The Naval Historical Center
Information on wars and battles, naval aviation history, and photographs.
Nuclear Weapons
The A-Bomb WWW Museum
Charts, graphs, statistics, first hand accounts from survivors of
Hiroshima, information on Nagasaki and more.
Atomic Audit:
The Cost and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940
Site from Brookings Institute provides information on military spending.
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Links to articles on detente, test ban treaties, U.S. foreign policy,
more.
Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists
Selected articles from the current issue.
Federation of American Scientists
Weapons of mass destruction news and resources.
Race for the Superbomb
Online resource site for the PBS film.
Military Intelligence
Center for the Study of Intelligence
Articles and book summaries from CSI.
U.S. Department of State
Provides government documents on U.S. foreign relations from 1945-1968.
National Security Agency Cryptologic History
Relevations from the Russian Archives
An online exhibition from the Library of Congress.
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