D. 16th-17th centuries

1. West Point Atlas recommended
2. "The Military Revolution" -- historians have vigorously debated whether or not the great changes in warfare at this time constituted a "revolution" or just a big evolution.
   define the issues college syllabus with links
   "The Military Revolution: Origins and First Tests Abroad" by John F. Guilmartin, Jr. scholarly article from 1995 book
   new technology
   debate among historians
   The Making of a World Power, War and the Military Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England book review
   Black, Jeremy, "European Warfare 1494-1660 and the Military Revolution" History Review, March 2003 Issue 45, p 47-53; online via EBSCO/ Academic Search Elite
   "The Consequences of the Military Revolution in Muscovy: A Comparative Perspective," by Marshall Poe, in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 38, No. 4. (Oct., 1996), pp. 603-618.
   Alfred Kohler . "Review of James D. Tracy, Emperor Charles V, Impresario of War: Campaign Strategy, International Finance, and Domestic Politics," HABSBURG, H-Net Reviews, March, 2004.
   Spanish conquest of Mexico
   Inca Empire
   The Pioneers of France in the New World great classic by Francis Parkman (1865)
   ""Review Essay: Clio in Arms: The Role of the Military Variable in Shaping History," by John A. Lynn ; in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Jan 1991), pp. 83-95, focus on state capabilities in early modern Europe
3. Spanish Armada overview
   Overview
   Overview (1907 essay from Catholic Encyclopedia)
   overview by Tilton and Mahan (1898)
   documents
   "The Spanish Story of the 1588 Armada Reassessed," by M. J. Rodriguez-Salgado The Historical Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2. (Jun., 1990), pp. 461-478.
   "Korean War of 1592-1598" (2008) Citizendium article with bibliography; Japan invaded Korea, which China defended; Japan lost
4. Technology and Science of War
   Latitude: The Art and Science of Fifteenth-Century Navigation highly detailed
   Fortifications mostly eastern Europe
   The Geometry of War, 1600-1750 stunning exhibit, esp. re artillery recommended
   uniforms modern illustrations by Velimir Vuksic
5. Thirty Years War 1618-1648 overview
   Thirty Years War
   primary sources
   Myron P. Gutmann, "The Origins of the Thirty Years' War," in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 18, No. 4, (Spring, 1988), pp. 749-770. in JSTOR
   "Wallenstein and Gustavus Adolphus," essay by Eugene Lawrence (1871) Wallenstein was the leading Catholic general; Gustavus, King of Sweden, was the leading Protestant
   Gustavus Adolphus
6. "The Character of the Nine Years War, 1688-97" by George Clark, Cambridge Historical Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2. (1954), pp. 168-182. Also called War of the League of Augsburg or in America, King William's War.
7. English Civil Wars
   British Civil Wars and Commonwealth, 1638-1660 recommended
   English Civil War, 1642-48
   pamphlets
   documents
   Reenactments
   Battle of Naseby, 1645 Parliament defeats Royalists; maps
   Ian Gentles. "Review of Roger B. Manning, Swordsmen: The Martial Ethos in the Three Kingdoms," H-Albion, H-Net Reviews, October, 2004. URL:
   D. J. B. Trim. "Review of Pádraig Lenihan, ed, Conquest and Resistance: War in Seventeenth-Century Ireland," H-Albion, H-Net Reviews, August, 2004.
8. Colonial/Indian wars
   Links
   Encyclopedia of North American Indians recommended
   King Philip's War, 1675-76, New England
   Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV great classic by Francis Parkman (1877) focus on war between Canada and American colonies in 1690s
   "Just War And The Colonization Of The New World" scholarly essay by Courtney Campbell
   The Southern Frontier in Queen Anne’s War by scholar Verner W. Crane, in American Historical Review 24 (April 1919): 379-95; circa 1702
   "An Ethnohistorical Analysis of Iroquois Assault Tactics Used against Fortified Settlements of the Northeast in the Seventeenth Century," by Craig S. Keener pp. 777-807 of Ethnohistory, Vol. 46, No. 4, Warfare and Violence in Ethnohistorical Perspective, Autumn, 1999 (in JSTOR)

   "Iroquois Assault Tactics" scholarly 1999 article by Keener; includes excellent bibliography from Project Muse
9. What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (2002) by Bernard Lewis, ch 1, lessons Muslins learned in battle with Christian Europe
10. Andrew C. Hess, "The Evolution of the Ottoman Seaborne Empire in the Age of the Oceanic Discoveries, 1453-1525," American Historical Review, pp. 1892-1919 (Vol. 75, #7, Dec 1970) in JSTOR
11. Tipu Sultan defeated by British in Fourth Mysore War (1799)

E. 18th Century

1. Age of Louis XIV documents
2. 18th Century documents
3. Colonial wars documents
4. maps from 1892 Atlas
5. Seven Years War, 1756-1763
   Seven Years War: Overview
   Seven Years War in America teachers' guide to use of primary documents
   Mark Power Robison. "Review of Stephen Brumwell, Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763," H-Atlantic, H-Net Reviews, August, 2004.
   maps
   articles
   French documents
   Seven Years War [Canada]
   Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence Of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 (1890) - Chapter VIII - Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
   Anderson, Crucible of War : The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (2000) chapter 1 of the best book on the subject
   Lance Janda. "Review of Guy Chet, Conquering the American Wilderness: The Triumph of European Warfare in the Colonial Northeast," H-Atlantic, H-Net Reviews, March, 2004.
   French and Indian War--French view
   Bibliography of French and Indian War
   Ticonderoga and Montcalm 1875 article
   Siege of Ft William Henry where the Indians massacred the British prisoners of war
   Pontiac's rebellion historiography (1763)
   "Lord Amherst" by Herbert B. Adams (1896) scholarly essay

   Lord Amherst proposes to use smallpox against the Indians

   More on Amherst's pox blankets

   Ruddock Mackay. "Review of M. John Cardwell, Arts and Arms: Literature, Politics and Patriotism during the Seven Years War," H-Albion, H-Net Reviews, November, 2004. British public opinion
6. Prussia & Frederick the Great
   Frederick the Great, esp maps
   short biography
   very long bio by Thomas Caryle, great English writer of 1850s; the style is very old-fashioned
   "The Prussian Campaign of 1758," scholarly 1897 article in American Historical Review by Herbert Tuttle
7. The Northern Wars [Scandinavia]
   Northern Wars
   Battles of the Great Northern War 1700-1721
   The Northern Wars: War, State and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558-1721 historiography
8. "Sailors and Gentlemen of Parade: Some Professional and Technical Problems Concerning the Conduct of Combined Operations in the Eighteenth Century," by Richard Harding The Historical Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1. (Mar., 1989), pp. 35-55. in JSTOR
9. "Rebellion of the Regulars: Working Soldiers and the Mutiny of 1763-1764," by Peter Way William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 4. (Oct., 2000), pp. 761-792. JSTOR reveals conditions & grievances of British privates (who thought of themselves as workers)

F. American Revolution

1. "American Revolution" (2008) Citizendium article with full history, detailed bibliography, and additional links
2. "American Revolution--Naval history" (2008) Citizendium article with full history, detailed bibliography, and additional links
3. Age of Revolution teachers' guides to using primary sources
4. George M. Wrong, Washington and His Comrades in Arms (1920) good short overview by Canadian scholar
5. Henry Cabot Lodge, Washington older biography
6. Higginbotham, Don. The war of American independence : military attitudes, policies, and practice, 1763-1789 best scholarly overview; online through ACLS History E-Book recommended
7. Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski, For the common defense: a military history of the United States of America, (1984) recommended textbook
8. Matloff, 'American Military History (1989) textbook
9. George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, from the discovery of the American continent. 10 vol 1837-60
10. Historiography
    " The Early American Way of War: Reconnaissance and Appraisal" by Don Higginbotham The William and Mary Quarterly 3rd Ser., Vol. 44, No. 2 (Apr., 1987), pp. 230-273
    Don Higginbotham, Don. "American Historians and the Military History of the American Revolution," The American Historical Review, 70#1 (Oct., 1964), pp 18-34. [ in JSTOR]
    Paul David Nelson, "British Conduct of the American Revolutionary War: A Review of Interpretations," The Journal of American History Vol. 65, No. 3 (Dec., 1978), pp. 623-653
    David Syrett, "The British Armed Forces in the American Revolutionary War: Publications, 1875-1998," 'The Journal of Military History Vol. 63, No. 1. (Jan., 1999), pp. 147-164. [ Bibliographies
11. Re-enactments, historic sites & links
12. Scholar's Showcase popular & scholarly essays & memoirs
13. Militia scholarly study
14. Hessians
15. Indians
16. Cameron, Margaret M. Canada & the American Revolution, 1774-1783. [1967] online through ACLS History E-Book
17. "Indians and the American Revolution," By leading scholar Wilcomb E. Washburn recommended
18. Allen, Robert S. His Majesty's Indian allies : British Indian policy in the defence of Canada, 1774-1815 (1992) online through ACLS History E-Book
19. Politics & Diplomacy
    Documents
    Perkins, France in the Revolution full text 1911 scholarly study, emphasizing military & naval role
    Benjamin Franklin links by R. Jensen and classic short scholarly biography by Carl Becker
    Political view from PBS
20. Prisoners
    Brunswicker (Hessian) prisoners
    naval prisoners from 1913 scholarly book
    American Prisoners of the Revolution by Danske Dandridge (1910)
    "Prisoner Exchange and Parole in the American Revolution," William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 2. (Apr., 1991), pp. 201-222. in JSTOR
21. Spies
    Intelligence: by CIA
    spy letters from Clements Library
22. States
    Georgia
    Maryland Gazette pdf format
    Maryland Loyalists
    South Carolina strong on Tories
    The Revolution in Virginia by H. J. Eckenrode 1916 scholarly book
23. George Washington
    George Washington and his Army

    General George Washington from Library of Congress recommended

    Washington Papers complete 39 vol edition
    The Continental army
    Black soldiers
24. Jusserand, Rochambeau and the French in America 1916 essay by a French historian
25. Battles
    maps from West Point Atlas recommended
    Original Maps
    Lexington, 1775 from WPI

    Lexington British report

    Concord

    staff ride & background
    Bunker Hill from Massachusetts Historical Society
    "The Battle of Long Island" 1776 scholarly 1896 article American Historical Review by Charles Francis Adams
    Trenton, 1776

    Hessians at Trenton scholarly study by Edward J. Lowell (1884)
    Brandywine 1777
    Saratoga, 1777

    1. Scholarly histories and guide to battle
    2. "The Campaign of Burgoyne," by W. L. Stone (1877)
    3. more Saratoga
    4. Bennington
    5. Gen. Stark at Bennington 1877 article
    6. Hessians at Ticonderoga and Bennington ; Hessians at Saratoga
    7. bibliography
26. Monmouth, 1778
    a British report
27. Southern Campaigns 1779-81
    Camden, 1780
    King's Mountain & Cowpens, 1780-81
    Cowpens
    "The Patriot" Mel Gibson 2000 movie -- fictional
    Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse, Yorktown
    Yorktown from PBS
28. Naval
    G. W. Allen, Naval History of American Revolution 1913 scholarly study
    "Admiral Earl Howe," 1894 essay by Alfred Thayer Mahan
    John Paul Jones

    biography

    Jones, seen by Brits

    extracts from Jones journals

    The Ranger commanded by Jones
29. Postwar
    Militia history
    General Arthur St. Clair postwar commander
    "St. Clair's Defeat," by Theodore Roosevelt 1791 epsode in West
    "American Indian Military Leadership: St. Clair's 1791 Defeat," by Leroy V. Eid ; in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 57, No. 1. (Jan., 1993), pp. 71-88.
    "America’s First Limited War," [Quasi War with France, 1798] 2000 article by Gregory E. Fehlings
    "Social Roots of the American Military Profession: The Officer Corps of America's First Peacetime Army, 1784-1789," by William B. Skelton J Military History v 54 (Oct 1990) pp. 435-452 available in JSTOR

G. Napoleonic Era

1. "Napoleon" (2008) Citizendium article with short history, detailed bibliography, and additional links
2. another overview
   Napoleon Series essays on military & related topics
3. Rothenberg, "The Origins, Causes, and Extension of the Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon" Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 18, No. 4, (1988), pp. 771-793
4. France in 1790s
5. articles
6. popular guide to links
7. Jim McIntyre. "Review of Alexander Grab, Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe," H-War, H-Net Reviews, April, 2004.
8. Hugh Dubrulle. "Review of Daniel Moran and Arthur Waldron, eds, The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution," H-War, H-Net Reviews, July, 2004. 17903 to present
9. Maps
   West Point Atlas recommended
   more battle maps
   Centennia Maps Europe, 1799-1815 in detail
   maps from 1892 Atlas
10. Peninsular War 1808-1814 from Encyclopedia Britannica 11th edition (1910); another copy
    War in Spain, 1808-14 in Spanish
    Peninsula campaign documents
11. Napoleon: Biography & Battles
    Biography of N from Encyclopedia Britannica 11th edition (1910); long (32,000 words) with a strong British bias another copy
    Guizot, History of France v7 of famous classic from 1820s; cover 1799-1812
    "Napoleon's International Politics: How Much Did He Owe to the Past?," by Orville T. Murphy in J Military History v 54 (Apr 1990) pp. 163-172 available in JSTOR
    Campaigns 1792-1800 from Encyclopedia Britannica 11th edition (1910)
    Valmy, 1792 Creasy's 1851 account
    Campaigns 1801-1815 from Encyclopedia Britannica 11th edition (1910)
    "From Berlin to Leipzig: Napoleon's Gamble in North Germany, 1813" by Michael V. Leggiere Journal of Military History 67.1 (2003) 39-84 in Project Muse
    The Napoleonic Guide links
    "Napoleon's Foreign Policy: A Criminal Enterprise," major scholarly article by Paul W. Schroeder, J Military History v 54 (Apr 1990) pp. 147-162 available in JSTOR
    excerpts from William Sloane's 4 volume biography (1896); good narrative
    Battle of the Piave, 1809
    Haiti & Toussaint L’Ouverture slave revolts after 1791
    Russian Campaign, 1812

    Battle of Borodino

    March to Moscow, 1812

    more on March to Moscow, 1812

    "Why Did Napoleon Invade Russia? A Study in Motivation and the Interrelations of Personality and Social Structure," Harold T. Parker, J Military History v 54 (Apr 1990) pp. 131-146 available in JSTOR
    Waterloo, 1815

    Overview

    overview by John C. Ropes (1888)

    100 Days & Waterloo by Sloane (1896)

    maps

    history from 11th edition Encyclopedia Britannica (1910); partly garbled
    Filmography
12. Naval
    "Napoleon and Sea Power," by J. Holland Rose, in Cambridge Historical Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2. (1924), pp. 138-157. in JSTOR
    "Battles of the Nile and Trafalgar," by Lamartine (1854)
    Trafalgar animation by BBC recommended
    "Nelson at The Nile," by A. T. Mahan (1897)
    Nelson at the Nile
    "Nelson at Copenhagen," by A. T. Mahan (1897)
    "Nelson at Trafalgar," by A. T. Mahan (1897)

    maps

    animated battle map from BBC
    British naval docs
    Admiral Nelson letters
    1813 bio of Nelson
13. Documents
    • Waterloo documents
      maps
    • more documents
    • Dispatches of Napoleon, Davout, Wellington, Nelson
    • artillery
    • Gen. Savary Memoirs
    • Marshal Macdonald Memoirs
14. Theorists & Historians; Clausewitz
    Jomini, Summary of the Art of War
    Jomini
    Clausewitz Homepage with full text of On War and more
    readings on Clausewitz
    Mahan & Corbett
15. War of 1812
    • US Army textbook
    • documents recommended
    • War of 1812 Website articles, reenactments, book reviews
    • more docs
    • West Point Atlas
    • Tippecanoe (1811) -- Indian eyewitness account by Shabonee
    • American militia
    • " Soldiers in Peace and War: Comparative Perspectives on the Recruitment of the United States Army, 1802-1815" by J. C. A. Stagg The William and Mary Quarterly 3rd Ser., Vol. 57, No. 1 (Jan., 2000), pp. 79-120 online at JSTOR
    • "Enlisted Men in the United States Army, 1812-1815: A Preliminary Survey" by J. C. A. Stagg The William and Mary Quarterly 3rd Ser., Vol. 43, No. 4 (Oct., 1986), pp. 615-645
    • Bibliographies
    • "The Niagara Frontier," by Benson J. Lossing (1863)
    • battles, w maps
    • Detroit
    • Chrysler's Farm 1813 animated map
    • "The Influence of History upon Sea Power: The Navalist Reinterpretation of the War of 1812," by Mark Russell Shulman ; in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 56, No. 2 (April, 1992), pp. 183-206
    • New Orleans, 1815
    • Remini on British Strategy (2000)
    • Music
    • Canadian perspective
    • "High Army Leadership in the Era of the War of 1812: The Making and Remaking of the Officer Corps, by William B. Skelton William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 2. (Apr., 1994), pp. 253-274. in JSTOR

H. 19th Century

1. Texas/Mexico/US
   • Mexico-Texas: Alamo
   • Texas War for Independence 1832-36
   • PBS on Mexican-American War
   • West Point Atlas
   • US Army textbook
   • "The San Jacinto Campaign" 1901 article by leading scholar Eugene C. Barker.
   • Texas perspectives
   • Alamo images
   • images of war recommended
   • Smith, Justin H. ''The War with Mexico'' (2vol 1919), Pulitzer Prize, vol 1
   • Smith, Justin H. ''The War with Mexico'' (2vol 1919), Pulitzer Prize, vol 2
   • Samuel Chamberlain memoirs and drawings
   • Scott at Vera Cruz 1851 essay
   • The Mexican war: a history of its origin, and a detailed account of the victories which terminated in the surrender of the capital; with the official despatches of the generals. To which is added, the treaty of peace, and valuable tables of the strength and losses of the United States Army. By Edward D. Mansfield (1860 ed.)
   • "Pack Mules and Surf Boats: Logistics in the Mexican War" by Robert D. Paulus from Army Logistician 1997
   • John F. Weinzierl. "Review of Joe Knetsch, Florida's Seminole Wars, 1817-1858," H-Florida, H-Net Reviews, September, 2004.
2. Crimean War, 1853-56
   basic
   Crimean War articles
   Crimean War 1853-56 from Encyclopedia Britannica (1911 edition)
   Crimean War documents
   History of the Russian Navy , a fine site in English from Russia
   Russian diplomacy college lecture
3. Imperialism
   imperialism maps
   British Empire map
   French Empire map
   Battle of Adwa, 1896 Ethiopia defeats Italy
   details on Adwa
4. British Empire
   British Colonial Wars: documents
   Sepy Rebellion in India, 1857
   "Global Violence and Nationalizing Wars in Eurasia and America: The Geopolitics of War in the Mid-Nineteenth Century," by Michael Geyer and Charles Bright, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 38, No. 4. (Oct., 1996), pp. 619-657. in JSTOR
   The war in Egypt and the Soudan; an episode in the history of the British Empire by Thomas Archer 1880s 4 vol.
   Kitchener full length 1915 bio of important general
   Omdurman 1898 map
   Northwest Campaign Canada, 1884
   Anglo Zulu War of 1879

   KwaZulu-Natal 1879

   battle of Khambula

   Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power by Victor Davis Hanson (2001) Compares the "Western" & "non-Western" styles of warfare at Salamis (480 BC); Gaugamela (331 BC); Cannae (216 BC); Poitiers (732); Tenochtitlan (1520-21); Lepanto (1571); Rourke's Drift (1879); Midway (1942) and Tet (1968).
   Boer War

   Boer War

   Boer War documents

   Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 Bibliography

   Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War (1902) -- this is straight history, not Sherlock Holmes

   Boer War Australian site

   Canada in Boer War

   Matt Fitzpatrick. "Review of Jürgen Zimmerer and Joachim Zeller, eds, Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika: Der Kolonialkrieg (1904-1908) in Namibia und seine Folgen," H-German, H-Net Reviews, February, 2005.
5. France-Germany 1870-71
   overview
   Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71 from Encyclopedia Britannica (1911 edition)
   Franco-Prussian War documents
   History of the war between Germany and France. With biographical sketches of the principal personages engaged in the contest (1871) By James D. McCabe.
   Ian Reifowitz . "Review of Gordon Craig, The Battle of Königgrätz: Prussia's Victory over Austria, 1866," H-German, H-Net Reviews, May, 2004.
6. Manuals
   Cavalry Outpost Tactics (1893) by F. De Brack, translated from French
7. US Late 19th Century
   harbor & coastal defense
   Dennis Mahan A treatise on field fortification, containing instructions on the methods of laying out, constructing, defending, and attacking intrenchments, with the general outlines also of the arrangement, the attack and defence of permanent fortifications. (1856) lectures by famous West Point prof
   Interwar Years US Army textbook
   Indian Wars, 1865-1900 US Army textbook
   Territorial Kansas from State Historical Society; their excellent scholarly journal Kansas Historical Quarterly is online to 1977
   Lakota Indians Sioux warriors
   Army in Reconstruction & Indian Wars lectures by Professor Grimsley
   Red River War Texas, 1874-75
   "General Custer and the Little Bighorn Reconsidered--Again" by James B. Potts ; in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 58, No. 2. (Apr., 1994), pp. 305-314.
   military reforms late 19c
   Derby on US Navy 1880 essay from Harper's Monthly
   "Building the Military-Industrial Relationship The U.S. Navy and American Business, 1854-1883 scholarly 1999 article by Kurt Hackemer
8. 1898
   • Spanish-American War from PBS
   • Overview from Library of Congress
   • Overview
   • essays for K12 teachers
   • West Point Atlas
   • Documents excellent selection of sources of US Foreign Policy 1898-1914 from Mt. Holyoke
   • Historians discuss 1898 recommended
   • A War in Perspective visuals from NY Public Library
     Road to War
     what sank the Maine? 1998 debate in Naval History
     Cervara'a Spanish fleet
     Santiago campaign
     victory in Cuba
   • Scholarly essays
   • Spanish court politics
   • US opinion
   • US Army
   • African Americans San Juan Hill, July 1898
     African American military service From the Civil War to World War I
   • "The Navy in the War with Spain," by Ira Nelson Hollis (1898)
   • Battle of Santiago
   • medical
   • Robert S. Driscoll. "Review of Vincent J. Cirillo, Bullets and Bacilli: The Spanish-American War and Military Medicine," H-War, H-Net Reviews, April, 2004.
   • Philippines
     lecture notes
     Overview
     Philippines: images
     US Army & Irregular Warfare e-book by Prof John Gates
     Balangiga and Samar counter-insurgency operations & massacre of US troops
     US opposition to war
     Aldona Sendzikas. "Review of Angel Velasco Shaw and Luis H. Francia, eds, Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999," H-Amstdy, H-Net Reviews, April, 2004.

I. US Civil War

1. "U.S. Civil War" (2008) Citizendium article with full history, detailed bibliography, and additional links
2. James Ford Rhodes, History of the Civil War, 1861â€"1865 (1918) best of older histories of the war years; strong on politics
   Military History of Civil War original essay by Richard Jensen, with hot links to documents, maps & URLs
   Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski, For the common defense: a military history of the United States of America, (1984) recommended textbook
   Matloff, 'American Military History (1989) textbook
   Abraham Lincoln, a History (10 vols, 1890) by John George Nicolay and John Hay; Nicolay and Hay were senior aides to Lincoln; This is the longest and most detailed scholarly history of the war, noted for completeness, clarity, and psycholoical and political insight into the men and challenges Lincoln faced; portions appeared in Century magazine, as listed below. recommended
3. War of the Rebellion complete; this major series of wartimne reports is conveniently available on inexpensive cd-rom.
   Other useful cd-roms on Civil War
4. Web Sites
   Links from LSU
   Links from Jim Janke; very good guide to topics
   Alice E. Carter and Richard Jensen The Civil War on the Web: A Guide to the Very Best Sites (2003) book and cd-rom, evaluates 400+ sites
   scholarly essays 1966 collection ed. Charles Crowe
5. A Nation Divided popular articles
6. Harper's Weekly valuable weekly newspaper 1857-1877; superb illustrations; available at 500+ academic libraries recommended
7. he American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1861 full text online and searchable at Google.books.com recommended 1862
8. African-Americans
   • William Wells Brown, The Negro in the American Rebellion... full text of 1867 scholarly book
   • Slavery
   • First Kansas Colored Volunteers
   • Troops
   • A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War
   • Emancipation Timeline
   • The Western Sanitary Commission; a sketch of its origin, history, labors for the sick and wounded of the Western armies, and aid given to freedmen and Union refugees, with incidents of hospital life much detail on refugee Freedmen
   • Confederacy debates arming slaves 1864-65
   • Ft. Pillow Massacre, 1864
   • Battle of Crater 1864
   • "Pride and prejudice in the American Civil War" essay
9. Training manuals
   U.S. Infantry Tactics. for the instruction, exercise, and manoeuvres of the United States infantry, including infantry of the line, light infantry, and riflemen full text of official 460-page 1861 training manual; illustrated
   Military Dictionary: Comprising Technical Definitions; Information on Raising and Keeping Troops... by Henry Lee Scott, 1861; complete text
   Hardee's Manual light infantry tactics
   Manual of Arms for Sharps Rifle
10. Artillery
11. Border States
    Nicolay and Hay on Tennessee and Kentucky, 1861 (1888)
12. Ft Sumter 1861 recommended documents & analysis by leading historian
13. "English Opinion of the American War," by W. M. Rossetti (1866)
14. Homefronts
    Confederate Home Front original documents from U North Carolina recommended
    Gone With the Wind great novel of wartime
    conditions in Virginia
    Virginia & Pennsylvania in the war years from "Valley of the Shadow"
    Bibliography
    "The Enrollment and the Draft," by J. G. Nicolay and John Hay (1889)
    Lincoln Administration links by Richard Jensen
15. Gallagher, The Confederate War (1997) ch. 1
16. Generals links for leaders of both sides
17. Total War
    "Abraham Lincoln, John Pope, and the Origins of Total War," by Daniel E. Sutherland J Military History v 56 (Oct 1992) pp. 567-586 available in JSTOR
    "Shutting the Gates of Mercy: The American Origins of Total War, 1860-1880," by Lance Janda J Military History v 59 (Jan 1995) pp. 7-26; available in JSTOR
18. Main Battles
    1. General
       Battles and Leaders memoirs by leading generals; single best source recommended
       Military History of Civil War original essay by Richard Jensen, with hot links to documents, maps & URLs
       James Ford Rhodes, History of the Civil War, 1861â€"1865 (1918) best of older histories of the war years; strong on politics and character analysis of leaders recommended best overview of entire war
       Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War The most comprehensive single online source for Official Records, and other firsthand accounts of practically every major Civil War battle. Also includees biographies and much else. recommended
       Tabular Overview
       excellent links from LSU
       West Point Atlas recommended
       original maps
       Battles: original sources
       Official Records complete 127 volumes; This is the basic huge collection of original reports from both sides; by far the most-used source for specialists recommended Cornell Making of America edition of Official Records
       Lossing, A History of the Civil War complete text 1866 popular history; heavily illustrated

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    2. Antietam, 1862
       animated map recommended
       guide, documents & memoirs recommended
       Antietam on the Web
       original news & illustrations from Harper's Weekly
       Bruce Catton, "Crisis at the Antietam," American Heritage (1958) by famous military historian but poor OCR means it's full of typos
19. Atlanta 1864
    overview
    Timeline and narrative
    Grant's analysis
    Atlanta maps
    map
20. Bull Run 1861 and 1862
    Bull Run 1861 map
    memoir by George A. Custer
    Nicolay and Hay on Pope's Virginia Campaign (1888)
    Second Manassas, 1862
21. Cedar Creek, 1864
22. Chancellorsville 1863
23. Chattanooga 1863
    Grant on Chattanooga 1863
24. Chicamagua 1863
    more Chicamagua 1863
    map
25. Cold Harbor 1864
    Grant on Cold Harbor 1864
26. The Crater, 1864
27. Ft Donelson 1862
    Grant on Ft Donelson 1862
28. Ft. Pillow Massacre (1864)
    overview
    Nicolay and Hay, (1889) scholarly article
    Official Records, vol. xxxii. part 1.
29. Ft Sumter 1861 recommended documents & analysis by leading historian
30. Ft Wagner, 1863 as shown in movie "Glory"
31. Fredericksburg 1862 good overview, with documents
32. Gettysburg
    1. Gettysburg 1863
    2. OR(Official Records)
    3. History of the battle (by James Ford Rhodes, a leading historian of 1890s)
    4. more Gettysburg
    5. Gordon on Gettysburg
    6. Meade on Gettysburg
    7. synopsis of best book on battle, by Coddington
    8. very large map of Gettysburg
    9. Longstreet
    10. Reardon on Picket's Charge (1997) ch 1 of book
    11. Jeffrey C. Hall. "Review of Steven E. Woodworth, Beneath a Northern Sky: A Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign," H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews, June, 2004.
33. Stonewall Jackson & Valley Campaign, 1862
    Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War by G. F. R. Henderson (1898) classic 2 vol biography
    Official Records
    General Imboden's essay
    "Jackson's Valley Campaign," by J. G. Nicolay and John Hay (1889)
    Gen Richard Taylor's 1878 memoir
34. East Kentucky, 1861-62 James Garfield, "My Campaign in East Kentucky" --the author later became President
35. Nashville 1864
    Grant on Nashville 1864
36. Peninsular 1862
    Peninsular map
37. Red River 1864
    more Red River 1864
    Battles and Leaders very good coverage
38. Seven Days 1862
    Nicolay and Hay on Seven Days (1888)
39. Sherman's March 1864
    Georgia campaign by General O. O. Howard
    Sherman's March 1864 by Grant
    Memoir by Capt. Oakley
    Sherman in South Carolina by General Slocum

    Sherman in North Carolina
40. Shiloh 1862
    Grant on Shiloh
    Sherman on Shiloh
    Nicolay and Hay on The Mississippi and Shiloh (1888)
41. Spottsylvania, 1864
42. Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, 1864
43. Vicksburg, 1863
    Grant on campaign
    maps of Vicksburg 1863
    more Vicksburg 1863
44. Wilderness 1864
    overview
    overview 2
    Lee in the Wilderness from Battles & Leaders
    Virtual Wilderness
    eyewitness
    map
    photographs
    Grant on Wilderness 1864

• West Point Atlas recommended
• original maps
• maps
• original maps
• National Park Service maps
• location of battles, by state
• Railroad maps

• Medicine good overview
• Sanitary Commission (private relief & hospital agency similar to modern Red Cross)
  U.S. Sanitary Commission recommended
  Sanitary Commission full text of anonymous review of major 1867 history
  "The United States Sanitary Commission" full text of essay by E. E. Hale in Atlantic Monthly (April 1867) pp 416-29
  The Western Sanitary Commission; a sketch of its origin, history, labors for the sick and wounded of the Western armies, and aid given to freedmen and Union refugees, with incidents of hospital life full text 1864 report , 144 pages
• Gillett, The Army Medical Department, 1818-1865
• Ellis, Thomas T. Leaves from the diary of an army surgeon; or, Incidents of field, camp, and hospital life (1863) full text
• manuals of military surgery 1861 S.D. Gross version used by the Union Army
  1863 Confederate version
• original photographs
  bullet wound
  amputation
  sick

• Official Records Navy ser 1 vol 1 basic original documents
• Links
• Cabinet Reports 1861 recommended complete reports from State, War, Navy, Interior and other departments
• Monitor-Merrimac documents from OR
• More Monitor-Merrimac
• Confederate cruisers
• biography of David Farragut by A T Mahan (1892)
• Confed. Naval buildup scholarly article by David Surdam
• Alabama Kearsarge duel, 1864 eye witness account
• Shells and shell-guns. By J. A. Dahlgren 1856 treatise
• "The Union Navy's Blockade Reconsidered" 1998 scholarly article by economics professor David G. Surdam

• detailed bibliography, links, maps and text by Rhodes
  Professor Rufus B. Richardson's article in the New Englander for Nov. 1880
  Extracts from the Minutes of Proceedings of the Standing Committee of the United States Sanitary Commission...1864 hair-raising details

  Appendix to the Report of the Sanitary Commission (1864) much more detail

• Letters and Diaries
• Stonewall Brigade ch 1 of book by Jeffry Wirt
• Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• "A Socioeconomic Study of [Ohio] Veterans... " scholarly article by Lawrence Kreiser
• "Religion and Combat Motivation in the Confederate Armies," by Samuel J. Watson J Military History v 58 (Jan 1994) pp. 29-55; available in JSTOR

• links
• Indiana
• Ohio by Larry Stevens
• Texas
• Virginia

• Documents
• L. P. Brockett and Mrs. Mary C. Vaughan, Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism and Patience (1867) complete text, 810 pp
• Frank Moore, Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-sacrifice (1866) complete text
• U.S. Sanitary Commission
• Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison, complete text
• Mary Chestnut Diary, complete
• Werner, Reluctant Witnesses: Children's Voices (1998) book review
• another review
• sources for student projects

• Jubal Early complete
• John B. Gordon, Reminiscences, partial
• J. B. Hood, partial
• Stonewall Jackson letters, mostly prewar
• Dabney, Life and campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, (Stonewall Jackson 1866 biography
• : John Esten Cooke, The life of Stonewall Jackson. From official papers, contemporary narratives, and personal acquaintance. By a Virginian (1863) complete text of book
• Lee original letters by Lee
• D. S. Freeman "Lee" great 4 vol biography (1934)
• Longstreet, partial
• John S. Mosby, complete
• Richard Taylor, complete
• VMI generals short bios
• others

• Grant: complete
• Clausewitz & Grant essay
• "Grant" by Gen. Adam Badeau 1885 essay
• Meade
• "The Grand Strategy of the War of the Rebellion," by General W. T. Sherman (1888)
• comparing Lee and Grant

1. Timeline and links
   • day by day chronology
   • Naval timeline
   • Chronology 1938-41
   • 1939
   • 1940
   • 1941
   • 1942
   • 1943
   • 1944
   • 1945
2. General
   Hyperwar good links by Patrick Clancey, esp re American role; recommended
   annotated links
   Multimedia good slide shows
   "The Scholarship on World War II: Its Present Condition and Future Possibilities," by Richard H. Kohn ; in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 55, No. 3 (July 1991), pp. 365-394
   WW2 encyclopedia from Spartacus
   "The Importance of Energy in the First and Second World Wars" by W. G. Jensen, The Historical Journal, Vol. 11, No. 3. (1968), pp. 538-554. in JSTOR
   animations of battles from BBC

   Fall of France 1940 and Dunkirk

   North Africa

   El Alamein

   Overlord June 1944

   D-Day

   Arnhem

   Burma

   Auschwitz death camp
   Maps

   West Point Atlas recommended

   battle maps recommended

   Maps
3. US Army
   Hyperwar links
   Command Decisions, 1960 study of US Army's key decisions
   US Army bibliography of official histories, with some links to texts
   Reader's Guide to US Army guide to excellent "Green Book" series of US Army history of WW2 recommended
   "United States Army World War II Corps Commanders: A Composite Biography," by Robert H. Berlin J Military History v 53 (Apr 1989) pp. 147-168 available in JSTOR
   Eisenhower from Center of Military History
   Eisenhower's Legacy scholarly essays
4. Diplomacy & Causes of War
   Causes
   David J. Ulbrich. "Review of Robert Boyce and Joseph A. Maiolo, eds, The Origins of World War Two: The Debate Continues," H-War, H-Net Reviews, April, 2004.
   British War Blue Book (1939) primary documents on causes
   French "Yellow Book" diplomatic primary documents on causes
   Peter Jackson, "Post-War Politics and the Historiography of French Strategy and Diplomacy Before the Second World War," History Compass (2006) 4(5) , 870-905
   "Munich and the British Tradition," by Paul W. Schroeder The Historical Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1. (Mar., 1976), pp. 223-243.
   Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare 1941-1942 outstanding official US Army history by Maurice Matloff and Edwin Snell (1990). Recommended for thorough coverage of American war planning
5. Air War
   • World War II Air Power links & topics
   • Futrell, Robert F. ''Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine: A History of Basic Thinking in the United States Air Force, 1907-1964'' (2 vols., Air University) [ vol 1]
   • vol 2
   • Bomber command recommended
   • "B-17" (2008) Citizendium article with bibliography
   • RAF raids
   • Army Air Forces Campaigns in Western Europe, 1942-1945 short official history by Edward T. Russell
   • statistics
   • Army Air Forces in World War II: Vol. I: Plans & Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942 ed by Craven and Cate; easy-to-handle small files
   • "Pinpointing Devastation: American Air Campaign Planning before Pearl Harbor," by Mark Clodfelter ; in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 58, No. 1. (Jan., 1994), pp. 75-101.
   • Battle of Britain, 1940
     Battle of Britain recommended
     Battle of Britain: bibliography
     airplanes
     RAF site
   • Luftwaffe planes & equipment
   • Planes & Weapons
   • Strategy in Europe: bibliography
   • "Hitler, the V-2, and the Battle for Priority, 1939-1943," by historian Michael J. Neufeld ; in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 57, No. 3. (July 1993), pp. 511-538.
   • Air power at Normandy by historian Richard Hallion, USAF
   • Strategic Bombing
     Animation of air war from BBC recommended
     RAF Strategic Bombing by H.C. Sykes
     The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey: European Theater of Operations recommended the major postwar study

     US Strategic Bombing Survey: Germany recommended
     econometric analysis
     "The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany: The Early Phase, May-September 1940," by H. W. Koch in The Historical Journal, Vol. 34, No. 1. (Mar., 1991), pp. 117-141. via JSTOR; who started bombing cities, why, to what effect? Koch (a German) sympathetic to the German civilians
     Dresden bombing 1945 book review
6. Britain
   links
   Homefront many documents
   homefront links
   W. K. Hancock and M.M. Gowing, British War Economy (1949) official history, recommended
   Problems of Social Policy, by Titmuss, Richard M. (1950)
   British War Production, by Postan, Michael M. 1952
   Statistical Digest of the War,by Hancock, W. K. 1951 recommended
   Memories
   "British Rearmament in the 1930s: A Chronology and Review" by J. P. D. Dunbabin, The Historical Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3. (Sep., 1975), pp. 587-609. in JSTOR
   SOE animation of secret operations in Europe
   Canada

   brief history of entire war from Canadian perspective

   Canadian Newspapers 144,000 clippings on WW2; searchable; good overviews; recommended
7. Europe: East
   • Operation Bagration Soviet victory 1944
   • Kursk, Soviet victory in 1943
     links
     Wikipediua
     myths about Kursk
     books on Kursk reviewed
   • Maps of Eastern Front in Russian
   • "Review Essay: New Thinking about the Eastern Front in World War II," by John Erickson ; in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 56, No. 2 (April, 1992), pp. 283-292
   • Balkan Campaign, 1941
   • Stalingrad
   • "The Ghosts of Demiansk: In Memory of the Soldiers of the Soviet 1st Airborne Corps," by David M. Glantz ; in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 56, No. 4. (Oct., 1992), pp. 617-650.
   • Lee Baker. "Review of Erhard Raus, Panzer Operations: The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, 1941-1945," H-German, H-Net Reviews, July, 2004.
   • Lee Baker. "Review of Armin Scheiderbauer, Adventures in My Youth: A German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945," H-German, H-Net Reviews, July, 2004.
   • Soviet posters
8. Europe: South
   • British Navy roles recommended
   • Greece 1941
   • Crete 1941
   • 1942 Invasion of N Africa
   • Sicily 1943
   • Sicily naval landings
   • Anzio 1943
   • Anzio overview
   • "The Battle for Anzio" by William Woodruff blames everyone for the fiasco
   • Rome-Arno 1944
   • "Allied Airpower Comes of Age: The Roles and Contributions of Air Power to the Italian Campaign" by Maj Robert A. Renner, USAF
   • Oliver Griffin. "Review of Gottlob Herbert Bidermann, In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front," H-German, H-Net Reviews, July, 2004.
9. Europe: West
   • map shows boundary changes during war years
   • West Point Atlas
   • London at war social history
   • People's War British people
   • Churchill documents
   • "The Battle of the Belgian Plain, 12-14 May 1940: The First Great Tank Battle," by Jeffrey A. Gunsburg ; in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 56, No. 2 (April, 1992), pp. 207-244
   • Dunkirk, 1940 BBC site
   • Normandy excellent site from Encyclopedia Britannica
     maps
     Normandy: links
     Naval action
     Cross-Channel Attack by Gordon A. Harrison major book in "Green Series" recommended
     D-Day from PBS
     Omaha Beach
     Utah Beach
     St. Lo
     photos a German perspective
     "The Battle of Normandy: The Lingering Controversy," by Stephen T. Powers ; in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 56, No. 3. (July, 1992), pp. 455-71
   • Liberation of Paris
   • Battle of the Bulge 1944-45
     Battle of Bulge by Cole major book in "Green Series" recommended
     Events and Personal stories
     more Bulge
   • USAF
   • "Logistics and Patton’s Third Army Lessons for Today’s Logisticians" by Maj Jeffrey W. Decker
   • George Patton (includes reconstructed version of his famous "speech")
10. Coles and Weinberg, Soldiers Become Governors US military occupation
11. Finland
    "The Battles of the Winter War" 30 November 1939 - 13 March 1940, Finland vs USSR [Finland fought two wars against USSR; this is the first one; note that Germany at the time was allied with USSR]
    Commander in Chief Mannerhaim
12. France
    • Maginot Line
    • Vichy
    • Liberation of Paris
13. Holland
14. Germany
    "Hitler" (2008) Citizendium article with full history, detailed bibliography, and additional links
    Feldgrau: German Armed Forces 1800 pages ed. Jason Pipes
    military production statistics
    Atomic bomb research
    The Atomkeller-Museum at Haigerloch bilingual; documents
    "Hitler's War and the German Economy: A Reinterpretation," important scholarly article by R. J. Overy in The Economic History Review, Vol. 35, No. 2. (May, 1982), pp. 272-291. via JSTOR
    David Bielanski. "Review of Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, eds, Home/Front: The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany," H-German, H-Net Reviews, May, 2004.
    " Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg in the German Resistance to Hitler: Between East and West," by Peter Hoffmann in The Historical Journal, Vol. 31, No. 3. (Sep., 1988), pp. 629-650.
    "The Question of Western Allied Co-Operation with the German Anti-Nazi Conspiracy, 1938-1944," by Peter Hoffmann in The Historical Journal, Vol. 34, No. 2. (Jun., 1991), pp. 437-464. via JSTOR
15. Greece 1941
16. Holocaust & War Crimes
    • Holocaust
    • David F. Crew. "Review of Omer Bartov, Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories," H-German, H-Net Reviews, February, 2004.
    • Teaching resources recommended
    • The Holocaust\Shoah Page
    • links
    • Auschwitz death camp BBC Animation
    • "The Bombing of Auschwitz Re-Examined" by James H. Kitchens ; argues it could not work; in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 58, No. 2. (Apr., 1994), pp. 233-266.
      FDR rejects bombing
    • "Annihilation through Labor: The Killing of State Prisoners in the Third Reich" by Nikolaus Wachsmann The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 71, No. 3. (Sep., 1999), pp. 624-659.
    • Arne Kislenko. "Review of Gary Jonathan Bass, Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals," H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews, May, 2004.
17. Intelligence & Science
    • Strategic Intelligence links and documents
    • Intelligence bibliography by J. Ransom Clark
    • "Codebreaking in World Wars I and II: The Major Successes and Failures, Their Causes and Their Effects," major scholarly article by David Kahn The Historical Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3. (Sep., 1980), pp. 617-639. in JSTOR
    • "Eisenhower and the Intelligence Community in World War II" by Stephen E. Ambrose Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 16, No. 1, The Second World War: Part 1. (Jan., 1981), pp. 153-166. in JSTOR
    • deceptions by British
    • Bletchley Park British intelligence; Enigma
    • British cryptanalysis
    • Enigma
    • ULTRA Europe
    • US Army use of ULTRA in Europe NSA study
    • ULTRA against U-Boats NSA study
    • demo of Enigma machine
18. secret history of WW2 newspaper series about spies
19. spies original FBI documents
20. "Scientists in Uniform: The Harvard Computation Laboratory in World War II" scholarly 1999 article by Kathleen Broome Williams.
21. Italy
    Kasserine Pass
22. Medical, POWs, Casualties
    • casualties by country
    • US Medical Department, Armfield, Organization And Administration complete text of official history s
    • Army Air Forces Medical Services in World War II short official history
      Preventive Medicine vol 8
      Combat Psychiatry
    • Alon Rachamimov. "Review of Vasilis Vourkoutiotis, Prisoners of War and the German High Command: The British and American Experience," H-War, H-Net Reviews, March, 2004.
    • POW camp
    • "The Treatment of Prisoners of War in World War II," major scholarly article by S. P. MacKenzie, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 66, No. 3. (Sep., 1994), pp. 487-520. There were 35 million POWs in all; 5 million died.
    • Polly Kienle. "Review of Dawn Trimble Bunyak, Our Last Mission: A World War II Prisoner in Germany," H-German, H-Net Reviews, September, 2004.
    • "American Treatment of German Generals During World War II," by Arnold Krammer J Military History v 54 (Jan 1990) pp 27-46 available in JSTOR
23. Mobilization of Homefronts
    Britain
    British links
    German military production statistics
    Mobilizing U.S. Industry in World War II excellent 1996 scholarly study by Alan L. Gropman
    U.S.
    US government pamphlets full text
    FDR secret papers
    American oral histories
24. Naval
    US: documents
    Overview: King Report 1946
    Navy Department, Report on the Navy and the War (1943)
    Navy Department, Third Report on the Navy and the War (1945)
    US Navy
    secret naval war plans, 1934-42 from FDR Library recommended
    "Ready or Not? The [British] Home Fleet at the Outset of World War II," 1998 article by James Levy
    "Plan Dog" US Navy's estimate of global situation, Nov 1940
    US Coast Guard
    Merchant marine
    Navy: photos
    warships
    German naval radar ; Germans lagged badly
    British carriers
    British naval aviation
    Submarine Warfare

    U-Boatsrecommended

    "Death of Convoy PQ-17" in 1942

    Battle of Atlantic Canadian perspective

    Battle of the Atlantic

    ULTRA against U-Boats NSA study

    "German U-boat Crews in World War II: Sociology of an Elite," Timothy P. Mulligan ; in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 56, No. 2 (April, 1992), pp. 261-281

    U-Boats

    timeline

    U-Boat shipyards

    Italian navy

    British technology

    convoys to Russia
25. Norway
    Invasion of Norway, by Earl Ziemke
    invasion stress on hardware
    Collaboration
26. Partisans
    "Incident at Baranivka: German Reprisals and the Soviet Partisan Movement in Ukraine, October- December 1941" by Truman Anderson, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 71, No. 3. (Sep., 1999), pp. 585-623. JSTOR
27. Poland
    overview
    Warsaw
    Nazis in Poland
28. Propaganda, Film, Literature
    "World War II As Seen Through Children’s Literature" by Laura Pringleton curriculum unit
    Films

    Films

    war movies

    "Doing The Thinking For All Of Us: Casablanca And The Home Front" scholarly essay by Jack Nachbar. Journal Of Popular Film And Television, Wntr 2000 v27 #4 pp5+ available via INFOTRAC

    Laura L. Neitzel. "Review of David M. Rosenfeld, Unhappy Soldier: Hino Ashihei and Japanese World War II Literature," H-Peace, H-Net Reviews, February, 2005.

    Scott Denham. "Review of Susanne Vees-Gulani, Trauma and Guilt: Literature of Wartime Bombing in Germany," H-German, H-Net Reviews, January, 2005
    Posters

    Posters-American

    US posters

    Posters & war bond ads

    Posters-American

    Poster-British

    Nazi propaganda 100 original posters with new annotations; from Calvin College

    more German posters
    American photographs from FDR Library
    Tokyo Rose Japanese Army radio broadcasts to American troops; original FBI report
29. Race
    Race & US military
    Ulysses Lee, The Employment of Negro Troops (1963), excellent official US Army history; full text recommended
    African Americans & Military service
    "Recipe for Failure: Major General Edward M. Almond and Preparation of the U.S. 92d Infantry Division for Combat in World War II," by Dale E. Wilson ; in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 56, No. 3 (July1992), pp. 473-488
    Japanese in US
    National Japanese American Memorial
    Japanese American Relocation Sites by US National Park Service
30. Soldiers
    American oral histories
    "The civilians who joined up 1939-1945" by Mark Johnson statistics on recruits to Australian Army. Scholarly article from Journal of the Australian War Memorial (1996)
    Brent Watson. "Review of Peter S. Kindsvatter, American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam," H-War, H-Net Reviews, February, 2004.
31. USSR
    Stalin as war leader
    Mary Kathryn Barbier. "Review of Albert Axell, Marshal Zhukov: The Man Who Beat Hitler," H-War, H-Net Reviews, May, 2004.
    "Soviet and Nazi Economic Planning in the 1930s," by Peter Temin The Economic History Review, Volume 44, Issue 4 (Nov., 1991), 573-593. in JSTOR
32. US Strategy
    Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare 1941-1942 (1953) outstanding official US Army history by Maurice Matloff and Edwin Snell (1990 edition). Recommended for thorough coverage of American war planning; one of the best in "Green Series" from the Army Official History;
    Global Logistics and Strategy: 1940-1943 superb official US Army history by Richard M. Leighton and Robert W. Coakley; full text is not yet online one of the best in "Green Series" from the Army Official History; notes on vol 2
    Marshall Papers US chief of staff George Marshall papers, 1939-41
    Marshall Papers US chief of staff George Marshall papers, 1945-46
    US War Plans original war planning documents for FDR, 1939-43; called the "Safe Files", from FDR Library recommended

    1943 strategy

    Plans for invasion of Europe 1943 documents
33. Tanks
34. Charles M. Bailey, "Tank Myths" (2001) Christie's role in Russian T-34
35. Women
    • "Women in Combat" scholarly article by D'Ann Campbell, compares US, Britain, Germany & Russia recommended
    • Mattie E. Treadwell, The United States Army in World War II, Special Studies, The Women's Army Corps (1954) is the outstanding official history of the WAC and should not be missed; recommended
    • Posters gender roles in posters from several countries
    • US Army WAAC-WAC
    • WACs
    • US Army Nurses
    • Army Nurse Corps
    • WAF US Air Force
    • Coast Guard SPARS
    • WASPs civilian pilots
    • Redstone Arsenal
    • The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978 (2000) excellent official history by Bettie J. Morden; complete text
    • prostitution
    • American oral histories
36. Yugoslavia 1941

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L. World War II: Pacific

1. Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare 1941-1942 (1953) outstanding official US Army history by Maurice Matloff and Edwin Snell (1990 edition). Recommended for thorough coverage of American war planning; one of the best in "Green Series" from the Army Official History;
2. United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific: Strategy and Command: The First Two Years by Louis Morton (1961) one of the best in "Green Series" from the Army Official History; recommended
3. Maps
   West Point Atlas recommended
   Maps from Australian War Memorial
   maps
4. Douglas MacArthur from PBS
5. Japan
   Japanese monographs prewar strategy & planning
   Emperor Hirohito
   Sino-Japanese War 1937-45 scholarship and documents
   "Rearming in a Vacuum: United States Navy Intelligence and the Japanese Capital Ship Threat, 1936-1945," by Malcolm Muir, Jr J Military History v 54 (Oct 1990) pp. 473-485 available in JSTOR
   Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. (2000) book review
   Japan's decision for war, by Louis Morton (1960)
   Japan's strategy 1943 as estimated by US Intelligence
   Glossary of Japanese military terms
   strategic balance 1941
6. Pearl Harbor
   Japanese Plans
   Photos & Maps
   investigations
   popular culture responds
7. CBI (China-Burma-India)
   China Burma good overview by Center for Military History
   A Joint Study of the Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1945 [.pdf]
   US Army operations short official histories of numerous campaigns
   China-Burma-India documents
   Flying Tigers US Air Force in China
   "The `Singapore Strategy' and the Deterrence of Japan: Winston Churchill, the Admiralty and the Dispatch of Force Z(*)" major scholarly article by Christopher M. Bell re fall of Singapore The English Historical Review, June 2001 v116 i467 pp604+ available in INFOTRAC
   Malaya, 1941-42
   Burma British Army 1941-45
   British Navy
   U.S. Army Special Operations in World War II 1992 official history
8. Philippines, 1941-42
   Philippines, 1941-42
   United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific: The Fall of the Philippines by Louis Morton (1953) outstanding official history recommended in "Green Series"
   Bataan 1942
   Documents
9. Australia
   Australia & Japan
   Navies--Australia, NZ, Britain
10. Naval
    Maps & useful summaries

    bibliography with come links to official histories

    Imperial Japanese Navy Page by Jon Parshall

    Japanese Naval Aviation

    Japanese torpedoes

    US Navy useful overview of battles, admirals, weapons US Navy photos

    USS Washington BB56 good WW2 site

    secret naval war plans, 1934-42 from FDR Library
    Intelligence war

    "American Naval Intelligence of Japanese Submarine Operations Early in the Pacific War," by Carl Boyd J Military History v 53 (Apr 1989) pp. 169-189 available in JSTOR

    short overview
    Midway, 1942

    US Navy links

    Battle of Midway 1942

    "The Battle of Midway: Why the Japanese Lost" 2000 article by Dallas Woodbury Isom

    critique

    Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power by Victor Davis Hanson (2001) Compares the "Western" & "non-Western" styles of warfare

    US Submarines by Michel Poirier

    S-33
    Leyte Gulf 1944

    Timeline
11. Island Warfare
    • US Army operations short official histories of numerous campaigns
    • Maps
    • US Marine Corps official history; some complete texts
    • History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II Vol. I: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal full-scale official history (1949) recommended
    • United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The First Offensive by John Miller, Jr. (1948) recommended official Army history
    • Marine Corps battles
    • Marine Corps battles
    • US Army Histories also: cd-roms
    • The Amphibians Came to Conquer good 1971 bio of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, who handled many amphibious landings
    • Psychological warfare on Peleliu
    • Island Hopping by Japanese [Zamboanga, 1942]
    • "Japanese air operations over New Guinea during the Second World War" scholarly article by Hiroyuki Shindo Journal of the Australian War Memorial (June 2001)
    • "The naval campaigns for New Guinea" by David Stevens" in Journal of the Australian War Memorial (June 2001)
    • Guadalcanal
      • Naval Battles
        Japanese account
      • US Army operations
      • diary of Marine corporal J. R. Garrett
    • "Bougainville: The Amphibious Assault Enters Maturity" [1943] 1997article by David C. Fuquea
    • Tarawa 1943 Marine conquest of Gilbert Islands more on Tarawa
    • Island Hopping by MacArthur
    • Douglas MacArthur PBS special, with teaching aids
    • Luzon, 1945
    • Iwo Jima, 1945
    • Iwo Jima
    • Okinawa, 1945
    • Okinawa
    • Okinawa: Thge Last Battle recommended full text of 1949 official Army history
12. Air War
    Hitting Home: The Air Offensive Against Japan short official history
    "B-29" (2008) Citizendium article with bibliography
    US combat short official histories
    statistics
    links
    Army Air Forces in World War II (7 vol 1948-53) ed by Craven and Cate recommended classic official history; very large PDF files

    Army Air Forces in World War II: Vol. I: Plans & Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942 ed by Craven and Cate easy-to-handle small files

    Army Air Forces Statistical Digest
13. Kamikazes, 1944-45
14. damage to ships from Kamikazes
15. Bombing of Tokyo March 1945
16. "'It made a lot of sense to kill skilled workers': The firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945" by Thomas R. Searle, Journal of Military History 103-134 v 66 #1 (Jan 2002): pp. 103-134 online via FirstSearch; major scholarly study
17. maps
18. US Strategic Bombing Survey: Japan major source
19. Manhattan Project [Atomic Bomb]
    lecture notes
    Trinity Atomic Web Site History, Technology, and Consequences in Historic Documents, Photos, and Videos
    Building and Dropping the Bomb: US Perspectives excellent collection of US documents
    physics issues
    British role
    A-Bomb: Decision to use (1960 study)
    documents on decision
    Official 1946 A-Bomb report
    German research on atomic energy
    Hiroshima documents & videos
    Enola Gay controversy about controversia; museum exhibit
    Intelligence, Surrender & Hiroshima CIA official history, 1998
    "Tainted Decision: The Atom Bomb And America's Rush To End World War II" short book by Mayor Lee T. Wyatt, US Army (1986)
    "Racism And The Atomic Bomb" short book by Major Myron L. Hampton, USMC; racism was not a major factor
    U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1946) official report
    Roleff, ed. The Atom Bomb (2000) book review
    Brotherhood of the Bomb documents re Oppenheimer case
20. Invasion of Japan, 1945-46
    annotated bibliography
    narrative overview by James Davis
    Overview from The History Channel
    Kyushu essay by scholar Jack Bauer
    "V [Marine] Amphibious Corps Planning for Operation Olympic and the Role of Intelligence in Support of Planning" research paper by Major Mark P. Arens, USMCR
    Casualty issue

    "Casualty Projections for the U.S. Invasions of Japan, 1945-1946: Planning and Policy Implications," by D. M. Giangreco in the Journal of Military History, 61 (July 1997): 521-82 recommended

    Giangreco on invasion plans

    Giangreco on casualties
    Arens, "V [Marine] Amphibious Corps Planning for Operation Olympic"
    Invasion map
    Bernstein, Barton J. "The Alarming Japanese Buildup on Southern Kyushu, Growing U.S. Fears, and Counterfactual Analysis: Would the Planned November 1945 Invasion of Southern Kyushu Have Occured?". Pacific Historical Review vol 68, no.4 (November 1999): 561-609. (online via Infotrac)
    recent books reviewed
    Japan's Defenses

    Japanese plans

    Ketsu-Go (Decisive) Operation
21. Medical, POWs
    US Medical Department, Armfield, Organization and Administration complete text of 1963 official history
    "Stripping Away the Veneer: P. O. W. Survival in the Far East as an Index of Cultural Atavism," by Charles G. Roland J Military History v 53 (Jan 1989) pp. pp. 79-94 available in JSTOR
    "A map to Paradise Road: A guide for historians" by Hank Nelson Journal of the Australian War Memorial (1999) Scholarly article about Japanese massacre of POW nurses and horrors of prison camps

M. Cold War

1. "Doing Cold War History: A Practical Guide" by historian Marc Trachtenberg recommended esp part 3 on Primary Sources
2. 1998 Overview by CNN
   Teaching Guide from CNN/Turner
   Cold War lecture notes by Prof Steven Schoenherr
   historiography short essay by a British scholar
   John T. Correll, The Air Force and the Cold War (2002), short official history of USAF
   Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski, For the common defense: a military history of the United States of America, (1984) recommended textbook
   Matloff, 'American Military History (1989) textbook
   Primary Documents

   Documents: Cold War International History project--major collection of translated Communist documents recommended

   "Did NATO win the Cold War?" documents

   Documents from National Security Archives

   spies original FBI documents

   Communist propaganda posters from East Germany

   more of same translated

   NSC-68 major policy document setting out American Cold War strategy in 1950
   Fakiolas, Efstathios T., "Kennan's Long Telegram and NSC-68: A Comparative Analysis" scholarly article; full text; from East European Quarterly, Vol. 31, no. 4, January 1998.
   review of Miller, To Save a City: The Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949
   NATO vs Warsaw Pact a parallel history
   bibliography Eisenhower years
   CIA's Analysis of USSR, 1947-1991
   Taylor, Brian D., "The Soviet Military and the Disintegration of the USSR" Journal of Cold War Studies 5.1 (2003) 17-66 in Project Muse
   Arms Control and Disarmament 1964-68 official US documents & summary
   Westad Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1963 (1998) book review
   Star Wars ch 1 of Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances Fitzgerald
3. Nuclear Weapons
   Trinity Site
   Links
   Race for Superbomb, from PBS
   historical links
   Cost of Nuclear Weapons Brookings Study, 1940-1988
   High Energy Weapons Archives
   Nuclear Weapons, from CNN
   Citizen Kurchatov: Stalin's Bombmaker from PBS
4. Cuban Missile Crisis
   National Security Archive documents
   "Cuba, Castro, And The Cuban Missile Crisis" short 1995 book by LTC Maureen M. Lynch, US Marine Corps
   official US documents
   Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 (265 US documents)
   Kennedy audio tapes
   lesson plans for schools
5. Race & US Army 1952-54
6. Special Operations
7. National Security Action Memoranda of John F. Kennedy
8. Intelligence
   Bibliography
   CIA intelligence
   CIA exposed
   CIA History from New York Times
   CIA estimates of Soviet capabilities original documents, 1989-91
9. "Congress and the Cold War" scholarly article by Robert David Johnson Journal of Cold War Studies 3.2 (2001) 76-100 online through Project Muse
10. "Norms, Heresthetics, and the End of the Cold War" scholarly evaluation of debate on why the Cold War ended as it did, by Matthew Evangelista Journal of Cold War Studies 3.1 (2001) 5-35 online through Project Muse
11. John Gaddis on Reagan's strategic thought

N. Third World

1. Armed Conflict Events Data very good encyclopedic coverage 1800-2000 recommended
2. Arab-Israel
   Israel's 1948 War of Independence Li> Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2002) by Michael B. Oren
   1973 Yom Kippur War bibliography
   Eyal Ben-Ari. "Review of Chaim Herzog, The War of Atonement: The Inside Story of the Yom Kippur War," H-War, H-Net Reviews, July, 2004.
   West Point Atlas
   Israeli maps
3. China
   Chinese military power 21st century
   China: Civil War & Cold War from Turner Learning
   maps
   Mao's strategy in 1948
   China 1999 STRATFOR report
   Chinese Military Power recommended
   Report on China's military power by US Secretary of Defense (2000)
   Marshall Papers US chief of staff George Marshall was a presidential envoy to China in 1945-47
4. India-Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran
   USSR in Afghanistan
   India-Pakistan, 1971
   Kashmir 1998 from BBC
   Nuclear weapons in India-Pakistan Bibliography
   STRATFOR report
   Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini Iranian leader, 1979-89, from Time
5. "Just Cause" US in Panama, 1989
6. South Africa

O. Korea

1. documents & guides from Truman & Eisenhower presidential libraries
2. CNN 1998 report
3. NPR 1997 report
   links & teacher tools
   teacher's guide
4. Overview, with teaching aids & links from Truman Presidential Library
5. Maps
   West Point Atlas
   animated map
   Maps
   interactive map
6. Charles M. Dobbs. "Review of William Stueck, ed, The Korean War in World History," H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews, August, 2004.
7. Memoirs
8. Army textbook
9. "Introduction to the Korean War" by Allan R. Millett, Journal of Military History v65, no. 4 (Oct 2001): p. 921-935 online via First Search; background before 1945
10. Brent Watson. "Review of Peter S. Kindsvatter, American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam," H-War, H-Net Reviews, February, 2004.
11. Bibliography
12. Schnabel, Policy and Direction: The First Year (1992) recommended official history
13. Appleman, South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu (1961) major combat history of 1950 campaigns recommended official history
14. "Korean War" (2008) Citizendium article with bibliography
15. Mossman, "Effectiveness of Air Interdiction" (1966) Army's view of USAF tactical air mission
16. Field, History of United States Naval Operations: Korea (2000) full-length official history
17. " The Inchon Landing: A Case Study in Amphibious Planning" 1998 reprint of 1967 article by Marine Colonel Robert D. Heinl
18. "Negotiated Joint Command Relationships: Korean War Amphibious Operations, 1950" prize-winning scholarly 2000 article by Donald Chisholm
20. Maj Roger F. Kropf, "The Us Air Force in Korea: Problems That Hindered the Effectiveness of Air Power," 'Airpower Journal (spr 1990)]
21. MacArthur PBS special, with teaching aids
22. Paul M. Edwards. "Review of Brent Byron Watson, Far Eastern Tour: The Canadian Infantry in Korea, 1950- 1953," H-War, H-Net Reviews, February, 2004.
23. US Army
24. infantry weapons
25. short stories bibliography by Philip Jason
26. 1999 situation STRATFOR report
27. "The Korean War Truce Talks: A Study in Conflict Termination" scholarly article by Donald W. Boose, PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Spring 2000 v 30 #1
28. Russell Burgos. "Review of Richard Peters and Xiaobing Li, eds, Voices from the Korean War: Personal Stories of American, Korean, and Chinese Soldiers," H-War, H-Net Reviews, November, 2004.

P. Vietnam

1. Jensen bibliography online links at http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/vietnam.html recommended
2. Bibliography by Ed Moise
3. Timeline (well done)
4. lecture notes Harvard Prof Ernest May
5. Powerpoint lecture by Richard Jensen (2007)
6. Richard Jensen, "Victory and Defeat in the Vietnam War". essay in Richard Jensen, Jon Davidann, and Yoneyuki Sugita, eds. Trans-Pacific Relations ( 2003) long scholarly essay
7. Links
8. encyclopedia articles and documents
9. History Research Files
10. Scholarly Papers, 1996 TTU
11. Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski, For the common defense: a military history of the United States of America, (1984) recommended textbook
12. Matloff, 'American Military History (1989) textbook
13. Battles
    West Point Atlas
    Dien Bien Phu 1954
    Marines 1967 from MSNBC
    US Army
    AFHSO Publications USAF Southeast Asia Monographs: seven short studies published by the Airpower Research Institute at Maxwell AFB,
    Air Battle for Khe Sahn, 1968 by Garrett Moritz
    documents on Khe Sahn
    Tet, 1968
    My Lai massacre, 1968 BBC report
    "Learning from History: Linebacker II and U.S. Air Force Doctrine" by Raymond W. Leonard in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 58, No. 2. (Apr., 1994), pp. 267-303.
    David Kieran. "Review of Mark Taylor, The Vietnam War in History, Literature, and Film," H-1960s, H-Net Reviews, June, 2004.
14. Documents
    Pentagon Papers complete text of 4 vol Gravel edition; recommended
    Foreign Relations, 1969-1976 Foundations of Foreign Policy, 1969-1972 official documents; interpretive emphasis; recommended
    Foreign Relations US: 1966: Vietnam Most important collection of documents available

    vol 5 1967

    other volumes in series
    "Intelligence and Vietnam" top secret 1969 State Department study [released in 2004]
    Mississippi State "Historical Text Archive"
    Pentagon Papers excerpts re: 1940-50
    Documents
    diplomatic documents and reports from Mt. Holyoke
    Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech
15. Wars for Vietnam by Robert Brigham
16. US Army & Irregular Warfare e-book by Prof John Gates
17. Maps from CNN
18. Intelligence bibliography
19. US Casualties database, name by name
20. war in Laos
21. Hammond, William. Public Affairs: The Military and the Media, 1962-1968 (1987). This is really a full-scale history of the war; an official history by U.S. Army; much broader than title suggests. Recommended. May be located in Government Documents division of library.
22. Hammond, William. Public Affairs: The Military and the Media, 1968-1973 (1995). Continuation; full-scale history of the war by U.S. Army; much broader than title suggests. Recommended May be located in Government Documents division of library.

Q. Desert Storm to Present; Terrorism; Iraq

1. Contemporary conflicts
2. "Canada's Global Role: A Strategic Assessment of its Military Power" by Joseph R. Nunez From Parameters, Autumn 2004, pp. 75-93.
3. Victoria Williams. "Review of Andrew J. Bacevich, American Empire," H-War, H-Net Reviews, July, 2004.
4. Gulf War
   historiography
   West Point Atlas
   "'An Inward Looking Time': The United States Army, 1973-1976" by Richard Lock-Pullan Journal of Military History 67.2 (2003) 483-511 in Project Muse. Argues that ending the draft, not Vietnam, shaped this period. Focuses on General William DePuy who promoted a trained, value-based, and doctrinal Army focused on the Soviet threat in Europe, & influenced by the the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
   Iran-Iraq war 1980-88
5. Gulf War US Army
6. Whirlwind War US Army official history of Gulf War
7. Lucky War: Third Army in Desert Storm (1994) very good official history by Richard Swain; complete text [7 meg]
8. Gulf War from Mississippi State "Historical Text Archive"
9. Air War
10. photos of Gulf War
11. Gulf War from PBS
12. Lessons Learned by US Army
13. Defense Almanac 2001
14. FAS Military Analysis Network hostile to Pentagon
15. Greider, Fortress America (1998) chapter on tanks
16. FM 100-5 Operations 1993 edition of US Army guide to doctrine
17. clipart from Naval War College
    Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain (MOUT) FM 90-10 1979 US Army manual
    RMA debate "Revolution in Military Affairs" (RMA) relates to information war and asymmetric warfare; future oriented recommended
18. The DTIC Review technical reports US Defense Dept.
19. Kosovo & Bosnia
    • Historical Background from Brown U. Choices Education Project
    • Bosnia: documents & primary sources
    • action 1999, from CNN
    • analysis from Parameters spring 2000 issue
    • "Kosovo: The Limits of Air Power II" by Col Anthony L. Hinen, USAF
20. Afghanistan 2001, Iraq 2003-05: "Operation Iraqi Freedom"
    Yahoo links
    War Report 3000 links on Iraq & Afghanistan
    White House official site
    links
    overview
    news reports Australian site
    PBS historical report
    recent historical background
    Iraq Update from US State Department
    Saddam's Iraq 1999 US State Dept report
    US Central Command
    Briefings by US Central Command
    No Fly Zone
    Historical essays & commentary by scholars
    oil
    lesson plans for schools
    editorial cartoons from US & world
    British report
    Iraq's weapons of Mass Destruction Programs CIA report
21. Terrorism, 9-11-2001
    • news & government links
    • Terrorism Research Center
    • 9-11 links
    • Burcak Keskin-Kozat. "Review of Mary L. Dudziak, ed, September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment," H-USA, H-Net Reviews, January, 2004.
    • Journal of Homeland Security
    • links re terrorism
    • military links
    • "Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism," report from Library of Congress
    • scholarly essays on roots of 9-11 recommended
    • Middle East press
    • State Dept. reports and profiles
    • The 9/11 Report by The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (2004); not yet published
    • Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 official Congressional report (Dec 2002)
    • Weapons used recommended
    • Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism Report of the National Commission on Terrorism (Jan 2001)
    • Toward a National Strategy for Combating Terrorism (Dec 2000) from RAND
    • anthrax as weapon
    • Afghanpedia encyclopedia of Afghanistan
    • Afghan-USSR war maps 1979-89
22. Historical
    history of domestic terrorism in US
    Greenberg, A short history of terrorism.
    CHRONOLOGY OF BOMBINGS IN US HISTORY
    terrorism of the Barbary Pirates. 1803-4
    Edgerton, The terrorist who started World War I. 1914
    Shaffer, The failed campaign to get Pancho Villa 1916
    Leon Trotsky frighteningly frank tract, "Terrorism and Communism" (1920)
    Chalmers Johnson Blowback.
    Jason Roberts. "Review of Tracey C. German, Russia's Chechen War," H-Russia, H-Net Reviews, May, 2004.
23. Defense Dept Almanac 2003
24. Defense Dept. Annual Report 1995-2004
25. Defense Strategy Review American strategy for 21st century
26. Skaine, Women at War: Gender Issues of Americans in Combat (1999) book review
27. Civilian Control
    "The American Military and the Principle of Civilian Control from McClellan to Powell," by Russell F. Weigley ; in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 57, No. 5, (Oct., 1993), pp. 27-58.
    "The President as Commander in Chief: A Study in Power," by Norman A. Graebner ; in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 57, No. 1. (Jan., 1993), pp. 111-132.

R. Air Power/Aero-Space

1. Links
2. Air University Press many online books and monographs recommended
3. Air Force official histories recommended
4. Bibliographies: from Air University Library (many full-text)
5. USAF Historical Studies (listed only, no text)
6. Army Air Forces in World War II (7 vol 1948-53) ed by Craven and Cate recommended classic official history; very large PDF files
   Army Air Forces in World War II: Vol. I: Plans & Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942 ed by Craven and Cate easy-to-handle small files
7. WW2 Air Force photos
8. Rise of the Fighter Generals: The Problem of Air Force Leadership (1945-1982) (1997) valuable scholarly monograph by Michael Worden; recommended
9. links
10. John T. Correll, The Air Force and the Cold War (2002), short official history of USAF
11. "George Owen Squier and the Origins of American Military Aviation," scholarly article by Charles J. Gross J Military History v 54 (July 1990) pp. 281-306 available in JSTOR
12. Aircraft
    great airplanes great visuals
    Aircraft
    NASA-Dryden aircraft photos --a stunning collection
    Engines
    Zeppelins in WW1
    US AAF planes WW2
    RAF bombers recommended
    Axis warplanes WW2
    Messerschmitt aircraft
    Me 262 WW2 German jet plane
    B-52
    Helicopter: AH-64 Apache
13. US Naval Aviation
14. Rockets & Missiles
    US Army Redstone Arsenal complete text of 15 official histories recommended
    Redstone Arsenal Air & rocket technology mostly US, 1915-30
    original films
    Air & rocket technology mostly US, 1930-45
    Air & rocket technology mostly US, 1945-58
    "The Weapon the Military Did Not Want: The Modern Strategic Cruise Missile," scholarly article by Kenneth P. Werrell
J Military History v 53 (Oct 1989) pp. 419-438 available in JSTOR
15. "Hitler, the V-2, and the Battle for Priority, 1939-1943," by Michael J. Neufeld ; in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 57, No. 3. (Jul., 1993), pp. 511-538.
16. Michael Petersen . "Review of André Sellier, A History of the Dora Camp: The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp that Secretly Manufactured V-2 Rockets," H-German, H-Net Reviews, April, 2004.
17. Space Flights
    Apollo moon landing, from Smithsonian
    USSR and Russia

    Soviet efforts in space

    Soviet flights

    History of Sputnik from NASA

    Harford, "Korolev's Triple Play: Sputniks 1, 2, and 3" short scholarly study
18. Theory
    Airpower Journal, full text of articles, 1987-2002 recommended for AFROTC
    Paths of Heaven: The Evolution of Airpower Theory scholarly essays edited by Phillip S. Meilinger (1997); recommended
    Airmen and Air Theory: A Review of The Sources by , Phillip S. Meilinger (2001), short biographies and historiography
    airpower theorists bibliographies
    General Billy Mitchell

    Mitchell writings
    Giulio Douhet airpower theorist
    Douhet article on Italian theorist
    "Curtis E. Lemay The Enduring"Big Bomber Man"" short book by Major T. J. Cronley, US Marine Corps
    "Learning from History: Linebacker II and U.S. Air Force Doctrine" by Raymond W. Leonard in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 58, No. 2. (Apr., 1994), pp. 267-303.
    A Shield in Space? Technology, Politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative by Sanford Lakoff and Herbert F. York (1989) full text of major monograph
19. Corporate Histories
    Boeing, McDonnell-Douglas, North Amerian Rockwell they all merged in 1990s; brief corporate histories
    British Aerospace Co.
    SAAB and Swedish aircraft
    Thiokol corporate history (rocket fuel)
20. Museums
    National Air & Space Museum
    Imperial War Museum Duxford, UK
    US Air Force Museum
21. current issues by USAF lobby
22. Nuclear Policy for 21st C
23. Radar
24. Impact of Vietnam
25. Weaponry

S. Sea Power

1. Naval War College Review full text all articles 1997-2004; recommended serious analysis of sea power; some history
2. The Maritime History Virtual Archives wide-ranging
3. Seapower full text semi-technical articles
4. "Naval guns" (2008) Citizendium article with full history, detailed bibliography, and additional links
5. German navy: photographs German text
6. Marine Corps 4 million pages of documents
7. Bibliographies, U.S.
8. more bibliography
9. US Naval Historical Center recommended for all American naval topics
10. Naval Songs and Ballads (1908) ed C H Firth
11. Dutch naval history
12. History of the Russian Navy , a fine site in English from Russia; thorough coverage from Kievan Rus to 1917
13. Famous Sea Fights, by John Richard Hale (1911), rip-roaring narrative of 14 famous naval battles; well illustrated
14. Seapower in the Mediterranean 18-19th centuries
15. Theorists: Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) & Julian Corbett (1854-1922)
    Mahan's essays recommended
    Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence Of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 (1890) the famous masterpiece; Chapter VIII - Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
    review of Influence of Sea Power (1890)
    Spanish Armada by Tilton and Mahan (1898)
    "Nelson at The Nile," by A. T. Mahan (1897)
    biography of David Farragut by ATM (1892)
    original articles by A. T. Mahan
    Bibliography on Mahan
    evaluation of Mahan's ideas 2001 scholarly article by Jon Sumida
    Corbett
    Corbett & British theorists
    Revolt of the Admirals 1949 American debate between advocates of sea power and air power
    Sources on U.S. Naval History in the United States research guide to archives
16. Ships
    maritime museums annotated links
    Underwater archaeology
    Latitude ships & seamanship in early modern period
    Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars book review
    Famous ships
    Steam engines: links & texts
    Robert Fulton biography by H. W. Dickinson, 1913
    Naval Technical Board technical issues discussed
    Newport News Shipyard
    New York Shipbuilding company history 1899-1967
    Battleships

    Dreadnaught Race, 1905-1914

    US Battleships

    "standard" US battleship design

    USS Washington BB56 good WW2 site
    Submarines

    pre WW2

    U-Boats, WW2

    Walter hydrogen peroxide turbine engine

    Japanese subs WW2

    torpedo fuze

    "German U-boat Crews in World War II: Sociology of an Elite," Timothy P. Mulligan ; in The Journal of Military History in JSTOR, Vol. 56, No. 2 (April, 1992), pp. 261-281

    U-Boat shipyards

    Electric Boat Company submarine maker

    SSN attack subs

    Life on nuclear sub

    Soviet Foxtrot class
    Future of submarines
17. Prizes in history
18. Launch US Navy, 1790s
19. Battle of Jutland, 1916 German account
20. Gulf: Battle Group in Gulf, 1999, from PBS
21. World Navies in Review 1998 from US Naval Institute Proceedings recommended
22. Marine Corps
    Marine Corps history & traditions
    Official History recommended

    Evolution of Modern Amphibious Warfare, 1920-1941 part of v 1 of official History

    WW2 histories
    recruiting posters
    Marine Corps photos
    Marine Corps 1999
23. Naval Aviation
    US Naval Aviation
    Revolt of the Admirals 1949 American debate between advocates of sea power and air power
    carriers
    women on carriers
24. history of operations research
25. Friedman. Seapower and Space: From the Dawn of the Missile Age to Net-Centric Warfare (2000) book review
26. World Navies Today

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