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History of U.S. Armies in Uniform: The American Soldier from 1747 to the Present
http://www.tekawiz.com/
"From the birth of a nation to the war on terrorism, this website depicts a 250 year chronological history of U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps uniforms...."
The American Civil War Homepage
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
Links to a wide range of Internet resources on the Civil War. Includes texts, soldiers' rosters, battle descriptions, links to museums, and more.
The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color
http://www.pbs.org/perilousfight/
Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) series that "brings America's wartime experience, on the battlefield and at home, vividly and intimately to life by combining original color film footage with compelling passages from diaries and letters written by people who were part of an unforgettable period of history." Includes photos, letters, videos, a World War II timeline, an episode guide, and a teacher's guide.
The United States Civil War Center
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/
Civil War information for historians, genealogists, students, and reference librarians. More than 1,600 links cataloged, but not annotated.
The Wars for Vietnam: 1945 - 1975
http://vietnam.vassar.edu/index.html
Includes overview and official documents -- the Geneva Peace Accords, Law 10/59, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, peace proposals, excerpts from the Paris Accords, and links to other Vietnam resources.
U.S. Army Center of Military History
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/
Articles, statistics, artwork, lineage and honors programs, and "How-To" guides for such areas as oral history, organizational and unit history, and other topics about U.S. Army history. The Center's Library online catalog is available.
Veterans History Project
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/
A project by "the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress to collect and preserve audio- and video-taped oral histories, along with documents such as letters, diaries, maps, photographs, and home movies, of America's war veterans and those who served in support of them during World War I, World War II, and the Korean, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf wars."
Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
http://www.oakton.edu/user/~wittman/
Annotated links to documents, articles, photographs, diaries, information about Vietnam today, and Vietnamese in America
Voices of World War II: Experiences from the Front and at Home
http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/ww2/
This site is "based on 100 rare and fragile transcription discs (16 inch glass & metal acetate discs)...supplemented by manuscript materials, including still images, moving images, and oral histories, to showcase how WWII was experienced in Kansas City." Included are audio files of speeches by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, songs, news from both the Pacific and European fronts, a bibliography, and more. From the Miller Nichols Library at the University of Kansas, Kansas City.
World War I: Trenches on the Web
http://www.worldwar1.com/
Timelines, biographies, photos, weapons, countries involved, assassinations, and more.
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