2024 Spring: US History 3 Research Paper: US Military and War

Princeton University. Identifies, compiles, and analyzes micro-level conflict data and information on insurgency, civil war, and other sources of politically motivated violence worldwide.

Rutgers University

National Archives

Vassar College

Ball State University

Florida Center for Instructional Technology

Newly-Declassified CIA Histories Show Its Involvement in Every Aspect of the Indochina War. National Security Archives.

The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Digital Library

"Documents on the Vietnam War. These telegrams, minutes, and discussion notes range from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1970s, and most come from Chinese and Albanian archives." Wilson Center Digital Archive

The Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University

University of Washington. "We've collected hundreds of photographs and documents cataloguing the history of protest and activism against war--particularly, the Vietnam War--among students, soldiers, and residents of the Pacific Northwest."

University of Washington Libraries. " The material centers mainly around the Vietnam War, but includes much about feminism, racism, socialism, labor unions and the rights of farm workers, gay rights, environmental and economic boycotts of large corporations and agro-industry, prisoners' rights, and the Iranian revolution of 1979."

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 39. "This briefing book primarily focuses on the intelligence, space operations, and Scud-hunting aspects of the war. It also includes a report describing how Desert Storm affected China's view of future warfare, a document that raises questions as to what lessons other nations have drawn from U.S. military engagements in the Middle East and the Balkans."

Collection of Iraqi documents translated and made available by the Conflict Records Research Center about the 1980 to 1988 conflict. - Wilson Center Digital Archive

Declassified documents from the US government about involvement in the war.

The National Security Archive.

"A tremendous collection of archival documents on the Cold War era from the once secret archives of former communist countries." - Wilson Digital Archives

"This is a collection of primary source documents covering the collapse of the Soviet Union during the late 1980s. The collection contains documents from archives in most of the former Soviet bloc countries. They discuss the changes occurring in Eastern Europe and the Tiananmen Square events in China." - Wilson Center Digital Archive

" This collection of declassified documents and other material highlights what the CIA provided President Reagan and other top members of his national security team on key issues affecting US-Soviet relations."

The Fall of communism in 1989. George Mason University.

"U.S. Post-Mortem on 1974 Indian Test Criticized Intelligence Community Performance for "Waffling Judgments" and Not Following Up Leads" - National Security Archive

A collaboration between the Center for New Media at George Mason University and the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the CUNY. "The Archive is contributing to the on-going effort by historians and archivists to record and preserve the record of 9/11."

Library of Congress. "Captures the heartfelt reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93."

"Examines the rise and fall of the World Trade Center -- from its conception in the post-World War II economic boom, through its controversial construction in the 1960s and 1970s, to its tragic demise in the fall of 2001 and extraordinary response of the city in its aftermath. It is the eighth episode of filmmaker Ric Burns' award-winning series New York: A Documentary Film."

9/11, Usama (or Osama) Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, etc.

Newseum. Wednesday, September 12, 2001.

Wilson Center Digital Archive. "Critical declassified records on issues including U.S. national security, foreign policy, diplomatic and military history, intelligence policy, and much more."