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Current funding for the Gi21 program ended on September 30, 2008 and the information found in the program modules is up-to-date as of December 31, 2008. To facilitate use of the modules from now till the future continuation of the program, new documents can be posted from each module and sub-module main pages and the community discussions are open. However the main module pages and documents will not be updated. If you have any questions, please contact Kirsten Clark.

Researchers, writers, teachers, and students often require information, photographs, drawings, maps, and documents about branches of the service and wars/conflicts in our nation's history. This section features government sites that offer historical information. Each branch provides a military history office or division; other sites focus on memories and oral histories of military soldiers and other items of the past related to our military and the wars of our nation.

Contents

Key Resources

America's Wars
http://www1.va.gov/opa/fact/amwars.asp

Document from the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Provides dates, counts of servicepeople, deaths, woundings, and most recent count of living veterans, or, in case none are alive, information about last veterans, widows, and dependents.
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/index.html

Use American Memory, topic: War, Military and find war maps, photographs, audio interviews, films, scans of newspapers, and other memorabilia.
NARA Resources for each war; these include digitized documents, photographs, speeches, lesson plans:
- American Revolution
  http://www.archives.gov/research/american-revolution/index.html
- Civil War
  http://www.archives.gov/research/civil-war/index.html
- Korean War
  http://www.archives.gov/research/korean-war/index.html
- Mexican War
  http://www.archives.gov/research/military/mexican-war.html
- Spanish-American War
  http://www.archives.gov/research/military/spanish-american-war.html
- War of 1812
  http://www.archives.gov/research/military/war-of-1812.html
- Vietnam War
  http://www.archives.gov/research/vietnam-war/
- World War I
  http://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww1.html
- World War II
  http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/index.html

Veterans History Project
http://www.loc.gov/vets/

Includes sound, moving images, photographic materials and manuscripts, and text transcriptions donated or collected by veterans, their families, friends, historians, folklorists, all volunteers.
War Memorials in Washington DC
- National World War II Memorial
  http://www.nps.gov/nwwm/
- Korean War Veterans
  http://www.nps.gov/kowa
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
  http://www.nps.gov/vive/
Offices/Divisions of Military History
- U.S. Army Center of Military History
  http://www.army.mil/cmh/index.html
- Air Force Historical Research Agency
  http://www.afhra.af.mil/
- Naval Historical Center
  http://www.history.navy.mil/
- United States Marine Corps History Division http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/HD/Home_Page.htm
- United States Coast Guard Historian's Office
  http://www.uscg.mil/history/

Note: For recent information on military actions go to the
U.S. Department of Defense http://www.defenselink.mil/

Exercises

Using NARA Resources: Civil War: http://www.archives.gov/research/civil-war/index.html

Find a photograph of Major General Joseph Hooker in the Civil War.

Choose Civil War Photographs. Choose Portraits. Go down list. Under the category Federal Army Officers select #167, Hooker, Maj. Gen. Joseph ("Fighting Joe".)