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Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. New York: Facts on File, 1996. SML, Reference E743.5 K57X 1996

Fredrikson, John C. American Military Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1999. SML, Reference E181 F84X 1999

Historical Dictionary of the Korean War. Ed. James I. Matray. New York: Greenwood, 1991. SML, DS918 H536 1991

Historical Dictionary of the U. S. Air Force.  Ed. Charles D. Bright.  New York: Greenwood, 1992.   SML UG633 H67X 1992 

Hogg, Ian V.  Historical Dictionary of World War I.  Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1998.  SML, Reference D510 H65X 1998 

Keenan, Jerry.  Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars, 1492-1890.  Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1997.  SML, Reference E81 k44X 1997 

The Korean War: An Encyclopedia.  Ed. Stanley Sandler.  New York: Garland, 1995.  SML, Reference  DS918 K5645X 1995 

The Korean War: Handbook of the Literature and Research.  Ed. Lester H. Brune. Westport: Greenwood, 1996.  SML, Reference DS918 A1 K7X 1996 

Marley, David.  Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1998.  SML, Reference E18.75 +M374X 1998 

O'Toole, G. J. A.  The Encyclopedia of American Intelligence and Espionage: From the Revolutionary War to the Present.  New York: Facts on File, 1988.  SML UB271 U5 +O85 1988 

Oxford Companion to American Military History. Ed. John Whiteclay Chambers, II. London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. SML, Reference E181 O94X 1999

Purcell, L. Edward. Encyclopedia of Battles in North America, 1517 to 1916. New York: Facts on File, 2000. SML, Reference E46.5 +P87X 2000

The Reader's Companion to Military History.  Eds. Robert Cowley, Geoffrey Parker.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.  SML, Reference U27 R348X 1996

Summers, Harry G.  Korean War Almanac.  New York: Facts on File, 1990.  SML, Reference DS918 S86 1990 

United States Intelligence: An Encyclopedia.  Ed. Bruce Watson.  New York: Garland, 1990. SML, Reference JK468 I6 U55 1990 

________.  Vietnam War Almanac.  New York: Facts on File, 1985.  SML, Reference DS557.7 S94 1985

War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia.  Ed. M. Paul Holsinger.  Westport:  Greenwood, 1999.  SML, Reference E181 W26X 1999

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BIBLIOGRAPHIES 

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• African American soldiers United States History Bibliography
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• United States History, Military 20th century Bibliography

Beede, Benjamin R.  Intervention and Counterinsurgency: An Annotated Bibliography of the Small Wars of the United States, 1898-1984.  New York: Garland, 1985.   SML, Reference Z1249 M5 B43 1985 

________.  Military and Strategic Policy: An Annotated Bibliography.  New York: Greenwood, 1990.   SML Z1361 D4 B4 1990 

Blewett, Daniel K.  American Military History: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources.  Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1995.   SML Z1249 B58X 1995 

Coletta, Paolo Enrico.  A Selected and Annotated Bibliography of American Naval History.  Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1988.   SML Z1249 N3 C64X 1988 

Dornbusch, Charles Emil.   Military Bibliography of the Civil War.  New York: New York Public Library, 1961-72.  3 v.   SML Z1242 D67 1961 

Fredricksen, John C.  Shield of Republic, Sword of Empire: A Bibliography of United States Military Affairs, 1783-1846. New York: Greenwood, 1990.   SML Z1249 M5 F73 1990 

A Guide to the Sources of United States Military History.  Ed. Robin Higham.  Hamden: Archon, 1975.  SML, Reference Z1249 M5 G83 
 *This guide also has two supplements, Supplements II, III, published in 1993.

McFarland, Keith D.  The Korean War, An Annotated Bibliography.  New York: Garland, 1986.  SML, Reference Z3319 K6 M38 1986 

Military History of the United States: An Annotated Bibliography.  Ed. Susan K. Kinnell.  Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1986.  SML, Reference Z1249 M5 +M54 1986.  Also in SML, Andrews Study

Schaffer, Ronald.  The United States in World War I: A Selected Bibliography.  Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1978.  SML, Reference Z6207 E8 S3 

Smith, Dwight La Vern.  The War of 1812: An Annotated Bibliography.  New York: Garland, 1985. SML, Reference Z1240 S65 1985 

Venzon, Anne Cipriano.  The Spanish-American War: An Annotated Bibliography.  New York: Garland, 1990.  SML, Reference Z1243 V45 1990

Woodward, David R.  America and World War I: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Sources. New York: Garland, 1985.  SML, Reference Z6207 E8 W67 1985 

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Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals: A subject index to articles, book reviews, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals.

Digital National Security Archive contains collections of declassified documents that led to policy decisions.

Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History contains information either on broad areas or specific topics relating to the Civil War in the United States.

Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History a reference overview of the Vietnam War covering all aspects of the war (military, diplomatic, political, and socioeconomic).

Gutenberg-e electronic books representing a range of subjects including Africa, colonial Latin America, South Asia, Europe before 1800, and Military history and history of foreign relations.

HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction (1857-1877) is a full-text database of all the pages of Harper's Weekly during the Civil War Era, Reconstruction I and Reconstruction II with scanned images, together with a series of indexes.

LLMC-Digital includes many Presidential papers and other executive documents, Supreme Court materials (including Federal Cases), Statutes at Large, and many military and state publications.

INTERNET LINKS 

• The American War Library includes a registry and history library, a G.I photograph museum, MIA/POW information, and links to other military sites
• Centennial of Spanish-American War (UC Berkeley)
• Evacuation and Internment of San Francisco Japanese (Museum of the City of SF) includes articles from the San Francisco News detailing Japanese evacuation and internment.
• The History Guy: The Mexican American War 
• The History Place contains exhibits about many eras of US and European history, emphasizing military and political history.
• Korean War Project a list of weblinks and primary source documents.
• Military History and War online collections of the Library of Congress through the American Memory Project
• Persian Gulf War Syndrome (PBS.org)
• The Philippine-American War 
• Intervention and Civil War, 1918 - 1920 (The Millennium Files)
• US Mexican War (PBS.org)
• A War in Perspective 1898-1998: Spanish-American Conflict (NY Public Library)
• War Times Journal - online archive of military history articles.
• Women Come to the Front journalists, photographers, and broadcasters during World War II.
• Vietnam War Bibliography