Military History Links

Primary Text: Stewart, ed., American Military History (2005)
(via U.S. Army’s Center for Military History)

Volume I: 1775-1917

Volume II: 1917-2003

Secondary Readings in American Military History

Military History Terminology

The Uses of Military History

Coffman, Duality of American Military Tradition (JSTOR)

Roland, Technology, Ground Warfare, and Strategy (JSTOR)

Linn, American Way of War Revisited (JSTOR)

Links in American Military History

U.S. Army Center for Military History Bookshelves

A great research starting point on U.S. Military History with many online resources

U.S. Military Academy (West Point) Military History Atlas

Civil War’s Western Theater Webpage

An excellent resource on the Army of the Cumberland and Army of Tennessee campaigns

HyperWar: World War II on the Internet

A comprehensive website for World War II research.

Perhaps the most complete set of US Government docs and photos online.

HyperWar: Normandy Invasion (Operation Overlord)

HyperWar: Tarawa (Operation Galvanic)

HyperWar: Iwo Jima (Operation Detachment)

The following available in online, searchable editions via MTSU Walker Library → Research Gateway → Resources by Subject → Military Science → Oxford Reference Online: Military History:

Oxford Companion to American Military History

Oxford Companion to Military History

Oxford Companion to United States History

Oxford Companion to World War II

Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military

Praeger Military History Illustrated Series (available at MTSU Walker Library)

Pearl Harbor (1941)

Midway (1942)

Guadalcanal (1942)

Tarawa (1943)

Normandy (1944)

D-Day: Omaha Beach

D-Day: Utah Beach

D-Day: Sword Beach and British Airborne Landings

D-Day: Gold and Juno Beaches

Operation Cobra (1944)

The Battle of the Bulge (1944)

Lorraine (1944)

Iwo Jima (1945)

Okinawa (1945)

The Rhineland (1945)

Other battles and resources:

Pusan (1950)

Inchon (1950)

The Tet Offensive (1968)

Mayaguez Incident (1975)

Operation Eagle Claw (1980)

Mark Bowden’s reports for the Guests of the Ayatollah book about the 1979-80 Iranian Hostage Crisis (http://iran.theatlantic.com/homepage.html)

Operation Urgent Fury (1983)

Operation Just Cause (1989)

Operation Desert Shield / Desert Storm (1990-91)

Operation Restore Hope / The Battle for Mogadishu (1993)

Mark Bowden’s original article series for the Philadelphia Inquirer: http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/sitemap.asp

Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden

Full List of Military-related Osprey and Praeger Publishing Titles available at Walker Library

Professional military journals available via online, searchable editions:

Parameters, U.S. Army Center for Military History

(http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/parahome.htm)

Naval War College Review, U.S. Naval War College

(http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/Review/aboutNWCR.htm)

Military Review [NOTE: Online and searchable but difficult to navigate)

(http://usacac.leavenworth.army.mil/CAC/milreview/index.asp)

Aerospace Power Journal and Aerospace Power Chronicles (http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/)

Journal of Military History published by the Society for Military History is available in hard copy in the periodicals section although all but the preceeding three years available online through JSTOR subscriptions)

[NOTE: Requires some knowledge of JSTOR search procedures]

Online Bibliographies:

Air University Library, Maxwell Air Force Base

(http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/bib97.htm)

[NOTE: Deals with all branches. Be sure to check out both current and archival bibliographies.)