Guides: History: Primary Sources for Student Projects: Military/War

Military Segregation

Desegregation of the Armed Forces
This collection focuses on President Truman's decision to desegregate the U.S. Armed Forces. The collection includes 247 documents totaling 1188 pages covering the years 1938 through 1953. Supporting materials include photographs, oral history transcripts, a subject guide to archival materials and a Truman Library finding aid which contains Freedom to Serve, the final report of the Fahy Committee.
US Center of Military History
Records the official history of the Army in both peace and war, while advising the Army Staff on historical matters.
Women of Four Wars
Documents women's history and involvement in US wars.
African American Women in the Military and at War
From the Library of Congress, this resource contains links to primary source databases, narratives, books, and reports about African American women and their involvement in the military and war.

The Muslim World After 9/11
A report compiled by the RAND corporation detailing the effects of 9/11 on Muslims.
The September 11 Digital Archive
The September 11 Digital Archive uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania and the public responses to them.
9/11 Primary Sources
These primary resources include speeches, executive orders, legislative acts and debates, and government reports from the decade after the 9/11 attacks. Additional materials will be added on a rolling basis.

Stories from Wartime Research Guide
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America in Protest: Records of Anti-Vietnam War Organizations, The Vietnam Veterans Against the War This link opens in a new window
A digital collection of 20,117 documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Library.
The Observer: News for the American Soldier in Vietnam, 1962-1973 This link opens in a new window
The Observer was a weekly newspaper published by the Command Information Division of the U.S. Military Assistance Command’s Office of Information. It was the official organ of the Military Assistance Command, and it carried official news about and for American troops in Vietnam. It was carefully edited to make certain it did not print news articles favorable to the communist enemy. The Military Assistance Command spread more than 80,000 weekly Observers among all points in Vietnam in which American troops were domiciled.