United States History: Military History
Featured Resources
Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the HomefrontAvailable online and in print
UW Tacoma Library Reference
E181 .A453 2005 v. 1-4
Covers the U.S. experience of war from colonial times to the present.
Encyclopedia of the Spanish American and Philippine Americans Wars Available online.
Major Reference Sources
- American Indian Experience This link opens in a new window
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Available online.
Explores history and culture of Native Americans.
- Americans at War: Society Culture and the HomefrontAvailable online.
Covers the U.S. experience of war from colonial times to the present. - The Greenwood Library of American War ReportingAvailable online and in print
UW Tacoma Library Reference
D5 .G84 2005
5 online volumes arranged chronologically
Vol. 1 The French and Indian War & The Revolutionary War
Vol. 2 The War of 1812 & the Mexican-American War
Vol. 3 The Civil War, north and south
Vol. 4 The Indian wars & The Spanish-American War
Vol. 5 World War I & World War II, the European theaterBlackPast.orgIncludes overviews of African American participation in U.S. wars.Companion to American Military HistoryHistoriographical essays on U.S. military history.- Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window
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Includes more than 63,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.
- Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War : a Political, Social, and Military HistoryUW Tacoma Library Reference
E208 .E64 2006 v. 1-5 - Encyclopedia of the Korean WarAvailable online.
- Encyclopedia of the Spanish American and Philippine American WarsAvailable online.
- Gale Encylcopedia of World History: WarWar from ancient times to the war on terror.
- Holocaust EncyclopediaOrganized by theme, this site from the Holocaust Museum uses text, historical photographs, maps, images of artifacts, and audio clips to provide an overview of the Holocaust.
- Home Front Encyclopedia: United States, Britain & Canada in World Wars I and IIA comprehensive encyclopedia covering all aspects of the two world wars.
- Latino American Experience This link opens in a new window
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Includes overviews of Latino/Latina participation in U.S. wars.
- Oxford African American Studies CenterMajor encyclopedic collection of African American history resources including African American National Biography & Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 - present.
- Oxford Companion to U.S. HistoryMore than 1,400 entries covering all aspects of U.S. history.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United StatesOver 900 entries on historical and contemporary experiences of Latinos and Latinas in the United States.
- Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic HistoryUW Tacoma Library Reference
E169.12 .P654 2007
100s of entries on all aspects of the U.S. since World War II.