Research Guide for History, Memory, and War

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Bombing, Aerial
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) - History - Bombardment, 1945
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) - History - Bombardment, 1945
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
Korean War, 1950-1953
Arms race
Cold War
Nuclear arms control
Oral History
Weapons of mass destruction
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975.
Persian Gulf War, 1991
Iraq War, 2003-


Historical Background Information

Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas (REF 327.73 En19)

Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations
(REF 327.73 En193)

Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy (REF 327.73003 H279e)

Congressional Record : Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress.
The college owns most of these for the twentieth century. Good primary source.
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Some Recommended Sources

African Americans at War: An Encyclopedia (REF 355.0092396 Su 845a)

American at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront (REF 973 am355)

World War I

World War I Memories: An Annotated Bibliography of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919 (REF 940.481016 w893)

World War I Document Archive (http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page)

World War II

The Oxford Companion to World War II (REF 940.53 Ox2)

World War II : The Encyclopedia of the War Years, 1941-1945 (REF 940.53 P766w)

The World Almanac of World War II: The Complete and Comprehensive Documentary of World War II (REF 940.53 W8935)

The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (REF 940.5318 G985e)

The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (623.45119 Un3e)

Wings of Judgment: American Bombing in World War II (940.54 Sch14w)

World War II and the World it Made [videorecording] (VC 1823, 1824, 1825, 1826)

World War II : A Digital Library (http://worldwar2.smu.edu/)

Cold War

Origins, Evolution, and Nature of the Cold War: An Annotated Bibliographic Guide (REF 327.73047 B561o no. 19)

Cold War International History Project @ the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
(http://www.WilsonCenter.org)

Documents Related to American Foreign Policy: The Cold War (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm)

Cold War Studies at Harvard University (http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/)

At Cold War's End : US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991
(http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS3840)

Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessing the Risks (http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS28048)

Vietnam War

The Wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, 1945-1982: A Bibliographic Guide (REF 959.7016 B937w)

The United States in the Vietnam War, 1954-1975: A Selected Annotated Bibliography (REF 959.704016 P313u)

Writing about Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict (REF 959.704016 W786w)

Those Who Were There: Eyewitness Accounts of the War in Southeast Asia, 1956-1975, & Aftermath (REF 959.7043 C613t)

Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War (REF 959.7043 En19)

Vietnam: Hidden in Plain Sight [videorecording] (VC 1822)


Oral History Handbooks

An Oral History Primer (808.0669 Sh92o)

First-Person America (973.91 B226f)


Recommended Periodical Indexes

General

Academic Search Premier

Expanded Academic ASAP

Lexis-Nexis
Full text of major U. S. and international newspapers.

New York Times Historical
The New York Times, full-text and searchable, from 1851-2004.

Subject-specific

America: History and Life

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