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January 11, 2005Variety of Civil War Maps Now Available OnlineThe Library of Congress has posted a large number of Civil War maps online. The collection is not complete -- eventually it'll contain selections from the over 2200 Civil War...Read the rest of entry "Variety of Civil War Maps Now Available Online " here. December 28, 2004Library of Congress Releases World War I Rotogravures CollectionsThe Library of Congress has announced a new digital collection, "Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures." It's available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/ . Rotogravure, for those of you who missed that word...Read the rest of entry "Library of Congress Releases World War I Rotogravures Collections" here. November 30, 2004Civil War Soldiers and Sailors SystemHoly cow. How did I miss THIS? How-da-heck-did-I-miss-this? "This" is the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, at http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ . It contains information on information on over six million soldiers...Read the rest of entry "Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System" here. November 16, 2004Database of Missouri Soldiers EnhancedThe state of Missouri has updated their database of state soldiers to include soldiers from the War of 1812 through World War I, which means that the new database includes...Read the rest of entry "Database of Missouri Soldiers Enhanced" here. November 09, 2004World War I Records for British Soldiers w/ Service Medals Now AvailableThe National Archives of the United Kingdom has released a new Web site that contains information on over five million men and women of the British Army and Royal Flying...September 15, 2004Camp Ruston Information Now Available OnlineCamp Ruston was one of the largest prisoner of war camps in the US during World War II. At its peak the camp held over 4,300 prisoners. Information about the...Read the rest of entry "Camp Ruston Information Now Available Online" here. July 26, 2004Vivisimo Clusters 9/11 ReportClustering meta-search engine Vivisimo has added a new special search: the 9/11 Commission report. Available at http://vivisimo.com/911, you can keyword search the report and get the first 200 matching paragraphs...Read the rest of entry "Vivisimo Clusters 9/11 Report" here. May 31, 2004UK Archives to Make WWII Awards Database AvailableThe BBC is reporting that a new database will "cover all those given awards for bravery in north west Europe between D-Day and the war's end." That's apparently about 12,000...Read the rest of entry "UK Archives to Make WWII Awards Database Available" here. NARA Offers Records Information for WWII SoldiersNARA, the National Archives and Records Administration, offers several databases related to WWII. There are two in which I think you'll be particularly interested. There's the "ARMY SERIAL NUMBER...Read the rest of entry "NARA Offers Records Information for WWII Soldiers" here. WWII Government Pamphlets Available at U of Richmond SiteThe University of Richmond (GO SPIDERS!) is offering for Memorial Day a collection of 60 digitized World War II pamphlets. They can be searched and browsed at http://oncampus.richmond.edu/is/library/digital/america_at_war/Gateway.html , while...Read the rest of entry "WWII Government Pamphlets Available at U of Richmond Site" here. April 06, 2004New Civil War Collection from Library of CongressThe Library of Congress has announced A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers. It's available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/tcrhtml/ . Tilton C. Reynolds...Read the rest of entry "New Civil War Collection from Library of Congress" here. March 16, 2004Valley Forge Muster Roll(I'm getting all historical today.) Genealogists who had family in the American Revolution, you'll enjoy this. The Valley Forge Muster Roll (pick "Muster Roll" from the left side of http://valleyforgemusterroll.org/...January 07, 2004Portal to Information About Military ConflictsThe War Times Portal is a subject index providing links about wars and conflicts. It's available at http://www.wtj.com/portal/ . Categories on the front page include Wars & Periods, Fighting Forces,...Read the rest of entry "Portal to Information About Military Conflicts" here. September 30, 2003Archive of Canadian Newspapers During WWII ReleasedThe Canadian War Museum has released Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War. The site features more than 144,000 articles from the Hamilton Spectator and is available...Read the rest of entry "Archive of Canadian Newspapers During WWII Released" here. July 05, 2003Library of Congress Adds Stars and Stripes from WWIThe Library of Congress has announced the online collection of The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919. It's available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/. This collection contains...Read the rest of entry "Library of Congress Adds Stars and Stripes from WWI" here. June 12, 2003Memories of World War IThe National Archives of Canada is now offering "War Diaries of the First World War" at http://www.archives.ca/02/020152_e.html, a digitized archive of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) units, who were required...June 11, 2003Pennsylvania Archives Add Civil War Card FileThe Digital Archives of the state of Pennsylvania (http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp) have added a new item to their collection -- the Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, at http://tinyurl.com/e0ic. (Or use the...Read the rest of entry "Pennsylvania Archives Add Civil War Card File" here. January 01, 2003Missouri's Union Provost Marshal Papers, 1861-1866, Indexed OnlineSo what did a provost marshal do during the Civil War? According to the State of Missouri's Web site, "These provost marshals were assigned regardless of the level of active...Read the rest of entry "Missouri's Union Provost Marshal Papers, 1861-1866, Indexed Online" here. December 17, 2002WWII Radio Broadcasts in Flash-Based ExhibitVoices of World War II, at http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/ww2/main.htm , contains more than 200 clips from the World War II era. The primary version of the exhibit is Flash-based but there is...Read the rest of entry "WWII Radio Broadcasts in Flash-Based Exhibit" here. December 09, 2002ECU Unveils Online Pearl Harbor Document CollectionEast Carolina University has unveiled an online collection of Pearl Harbor documents online at http://www.lib.ecu.edu/SpclColl/showcase/ . The site is divided into several sections, starting with War Begins and ending with...Read the rest of entry "ECU Unveils Online Pearl Harbor Document Collection" here. October 23, 2002Cuban Missile Crisis Documents From the Washington PostThe Washington Post has announced a special seven-day opportunity to view newspaper articles written between October 22 and October 29, 1962 -- the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. You...Read the rest of entry "Cuban Missile Crisis Documents From the Washington Post" here. July 08, 2002US Naval History Sources in the USThe Naval Historical Center has updated their 1979 US Naval History Sources in the US with an online guide. The guide's available at http://www.history.navy.mil/sources/ . The front page of the...Read the rest of entry "US Naval History Sources in the US" here. December 27, 2000Civil War from a Soldier's PerspectiveI'm always reluctant to cover sites that are not large data collections, but sometimes when they have unusual and interesting information I'm persuaded. Please check out the Civil War letters...Read the rest of entry "Civil War from a Soldier's Perspective" here. December 16, 1999 |
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