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Best of the Web: History & Social Sciences » History » Military & War
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A Summons to Comradeship: World War I and World War II Posters
Digitized images from the collections of the Minneapolis Public Library and University of Minnesota Library.
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American Battle Monuments Commission
"The American Battle Monuments Commission is a small independent agency of the Executive Branch of thefederal government. It is responsible for:commemorating the services of the American Armed Forces where they have served since April 6, 1917 (thedate of U.S. entry into World War I)through the establishment of suitable memorial shrines designing, constructing, operating and maintaining permanent American military burial grounds in foreign countries for controlling the design and construction of U.S. military monuments and markers in foreign countries by other U.S. citizens and organizations, both public and private and encouraging the maintenance of such monuments and markers by their sponsors."
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Dan Mabry's Historical Text Archive: World War I
Articles and primary sources related to the first World War.
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Dan Mabry's Historical Text Archive: World War II
Large and varied collection of materials, nostly primary sources, related to World War II.
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First World War
Online encyclopedia featuring articles, chronologies, and biographical sketches.
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For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
Includes a timeline as well as photos, political cartoons, maps, images, and other documents.
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History of U. S. Armies in Uniform: The American Soldier from 1747 to the Present
"From the birth of a nation to the war or terrorism, this website depicts a 250 year chronological history of U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps uniforms in 1/6th, GI Joe scale."
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Second World War
Online encyclopedia featuring articles, chronologies, and biographical sketches.
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Summons to Comradeship: World War I and World War II Posters
This collection inlcudes images of a wide range of topics related to the military, civil defense, anti-war movements and more.
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The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It
Online companion to a PBS documentary concerning American conscientious objectors to World War II.
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Veterans History Project
Collects and preserves stories of wartime service.
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Veterans' History Project
This project by the Library of Congress provides access to a collection of oral histories, and documentary materials of America's war veterans and those who served in support of them.
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War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
A searchable collection of over 7,000 photographs and 317 Kodachrome slides documenting the internment of Japanese and Japanese-Americans evacuated from California, Oregon, and Washington by the War Relocation Authority during World War II.

