ENGL 101/Hostetler
Books
CBC Library Catalog List: U.S. Military: ebooks, reference titles, and print books on reserve.
Ebrary: (soldiers or army or marines or air or coast or navy or veterans) and (biography or narratives or history) and "united states" AND NOT "civil war"
Articles
EBSCOhost Sample Searches: SUBJECT medal of honor, Limited to full text - 500+ articles in 3 databases
united states and (army or air force or coast guard or marines or navy) and (profile* or interview* or narrative*)
- 2400+ full text articles
ProQuest - ("medal of honor") AND (army or air or nav* or marine*) - 7000+ full text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals
Facts On File:
"Notable African Americans in the Military (sidebar)." Issues & Controversies in American History. Facts On File News Services, 26 Feb. 2008. Web. 23 Apr. 2010.
Websites
http://www.cmohs.org/
Congressional Medal of Honor Society
http://www.history.army.mil/moh.html
U.S. ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY: Medal of Honor Citations
United States. Air Force. "Medal of Honor: U.S. Air Force Recipients."
http://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/
The United States Army Medal of Honor
United States. Marine Corps. History Division. "Marine Corps Medal of Honor."
United States. Navy. "Medal of Honor, USN Recipients."
United States. Dept. of Defense. Medal of Honor: Heroes of Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.homeofheroes.com/photos/index_2.html
Medal of Honor Photo Albums (Use the menu on the left to navigate.)
"Of the 961 men who have received Medals of Honor since the beginning of World War I, we now have photos of all but 2 of these heroes..."
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/medalofh.htm
Medal of Honor Recipients Buried In Arlington National Cemetery (Some photos)
Monday, April 25, 2011
Medal of Honor & U.S. Military
Monday, October 4, 2010
ENGL101-Merrill
The Movie
Frost/Nixon(IMDB Record)
The Frost/Nixon Interviews Site
Gale Virtual Reference
"Richard Nixon"
"Cambodia Bombing"
"Khmer Rouge"
(Note: Try searching Gale Virtual Reference Library with different keywords to find more results.)
Books
CBC Library Catalog searches:
(Nixon AND Richard AND Milhous AND 1913)[in Subject]
clothing fashion
ebrary Book: Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority
Articles
CQ Researcher
Legacy of the Vietnam War: Did the war erode Americans' trust in government?
EBSCO Sample Search:
SU "VIETNAM War, 1961-1975" and SU "protest*" (searched these terms as subjects)
Web
The Nixon Era Times: official publication of the Nixon Era Center at Mountain State University
The World According to Frost. David Frost interviewed by Mark Corcoran of ABC News, 17/02/2009
12/27/2010 y.y.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
America's Veterans
Katel, Peter. Caring for Veterans: Does the VA adequately serve wounded vets? CQ Researcher, April 23, 2010. Battle-scarred veterans often spend more time waiting for decisions from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on their disability claims than they spent at war. At least 500,000 veterans have waited an average of six months for a decision on a disability claim and another 200,000 have waited an average of five years for a decision on an appeal. New VA Secretary Eric Shinseki — himself a disabled Vietnam vet — vows to unblock the huge claims backlog, but it may take until 2015. That's partly because the VA has expanded the number of compensation-worthy illnesses from the Vietnam War. Veterans' organizations laud Shinseki but disagree over how deeply VA changes should run. Meanwhile, lawmakers in Congress are close to passing legislation to compensate relatives and friends caring for veterans with catastrophic, lifelong disabilities such as traumatic brain injuries arising from improvised explosive devices — the devastating homemade bombs that are the hallmark of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.
More Articles
CQ Researcher
Katel, Peter. "Wounded Veterans: Is America shortchanging vets on health care?" CQ Researcher August 31, 2007.
Triplett, William. "Treatment of Veterans: Is the nation keeping its promises to veterans?" CQ Researcher November 19, 2004.
EBSCOhost - subject term searches:
veterans AND medical care
veterans AND (education OR scholarships)
SU veterans and SU ( work* or employ* )
ProQuest
SU(veterans) AND SU(famil* or marriage or divorce* or child*)
SU(veterans) AND SU(benefits or disab*)
SU(veterans) AND SU(Post traumatic stress disorder or mental health or psycholog*)
Books
Glantz, Aaron. The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle Against America's Veterans. Berkely: U of California P, 2009. Print.
Call Number: UB357 .G56 2009
Search our Catalog for the subject keyword veteran
View titles from our Veterans Day 2009 Display
Ebooks
Armstrong, Keith and Suzanne Best. Courage After Fire : Coping Strategies for Troops Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and Their Families. Ulysses Press, 2005. [ebrary]
Grzyb, Frank L. Story for All Americans : Vietnam, Victims and Veterans. Purdue University Press, 2000. [ebrary]
Hass, Kristin Ann. Carried to the wall American memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998. [netlibrary]
Search ebrary: veterans and united states
Web
United States. White House. Veterans Day, 2009 -
By The President of the United States of America - A Proclamation. October 30, 2009.
United States. Library of Congress. "Today in History: November 11th." American Memory.
United States. Dept. of Veterans Affairs.
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW).
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Women in the Military
Clemmitt, Marcia. "Women in the Military: Should combat roles be fully opened to women?" CQ Researcher November 13, 2009.
The number of women serving in the military has reached historic highs in the past decade, with women now representing more than 14 percent of the total force. In 2008, Ann E. Dunwoody, the Army's top supply officer, became the first female four-star general. This fall the Army tapped Sgt. Maj. Teresa L. King to head its ultra-tough drill-sergeant training program, the first woman to hold the post. At the same time, controversy swirls around the under-the-table recruitment of Army and Marine women into some ground-combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan — which is contrary to official military policy — as well as the Navy's plans to add women to submarine crews. Advocates of continuing to bar women from those jobs argue that sexual tensions and mistrust harmful to the military mission inevitably accompany gender-integration of combat teams. Meanwhile, women vets are suffering high levels of post-traumatic stress disorder and homelessness.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.
More Articles
EBSCOhost
SUBJECT: women and (military or soldiers or war or veterans) - 2100+ full text articles
ProQuest
SU(women and (military or armed forces)) - 4200+ full text articles
Reference
Oxford Reference Online
Search women in Military History subject - 35 articles; see also:
Lane, Linda Rochell. "Military, Black Women in The" Black Women in America. Ed. Darlene Clark Hine. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Reina Pennington "Military." Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Ed Bonnie G. Smith. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Books
Search the Catalog: ((su:women or su:female) and (su:military or su:war or su:armed or su:soldiers) not (su:fiction) - 33 books
Search ebrary: (women or female) and (military or soldiers or war) - 19 ebooks
Web
United States. Department of Defense. Congressional Gold Medal Presentation: Women Airforce Service Pilots. Videos, photos, articles, links to related sites.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Afghanistan
Articles
EBSCOhost
Afghanistan [Subject Terms] - over 5000 full text articles
Add terms to second search line to focus on subtopics - for instance:
- war or military or armed forces
- taliban or counterinsurgency or qaida
- rebuild* or reconstruct* or nation building
- school* or education
Afghanistan - over 39500 full text articles; note that this search is limited to the keyword 'Afghanistan' as 'Location' rather than subject. As above, add topic keywords to other search lines to narrow: GEO(afghanistan) AND (school* or education)
CQ Researcher - Afghanistan Dilemma - August 7, 2009.
Books
CBC Library Catalog - su:afghanistan or ti:afghanistan
Ebrary - subject search Afghanistan - 19 ebooks
Reference
Articles on Afghanistan (primarily background) from 4 encyclopedias in the History & Culture subcollection of Gale Virtual Reference.
Updated: 3/12/2011
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Iraq War - 5 Year Anniversary
Articles
World Special : Iraq, Afghanistan & the Reach of War. New York Times. Collection of articles with many multimedia and interactive special features.
FACTS.com
"Iraq War: A Guide to FACTS.com Coverage (2002- )." Facts On File World News Digest. 1 Mar. 2007.
Country Profile: Iraq. Facts On File World News Digest @ FACTS.com. Continuously updated with articles, documents, special features.
Bodenner, Chris. "Iraq War: Necessary Part of the Fight Against Terrorism or a War of Choice?." Issues & Controversies in American History. 4 Apr. 2006.
CQ Researcher:
Katel, Peter. "Cost of the Iraq War." 25 Apr. 2008.
Katel, Peter. "New Strategy in Iraq". 23 Feb. 2007.
Books
Reference
Articles on Iraq (primarily background) from 4 encyclopedias in the History & Culture subcollection of Gale Virtual Reference.
Websites
United States. Dept. of Defense. Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq. Quarterly report to Congress.
Iraq Coalition Casualties List
Iraq. Topic. National Public Radio.
