Key Resources
- America's Wars
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
Use American Memory, topic: War, Military and find war maps, photographs, audio interviews, films, scans of newspapers, and other memorabilia.
- NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) Resources for each war; these include digitized documents, photographs, speeches, lesson plans:
- Veterans History Project
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
- Offices/Divisions of Military History
Note: For recent information on military actions go to the U.S. Department of Defense
Exercises
Using NARA Resources: Civil War:
Find a photograph of Major General Joseph Hooker in the Civil War.
