IU in Wartime: Military and Homefront

Digital collections from the Library of Congress on the subject of war and military.

This web site provides an overview of the War of 1812, outlining the major military conflicts as well as the principal causes and outcomes of the war. More importantly, the site provides access to fully digitized books and manuscripts for the use of anyone interested in exploring the War of 1812. The types of materials digitized include books, broadsides, prints, maps, correspondence, log books, legal documents, diaries, speeches, letter copybooks, orderly books, and receipts. Some of these items are described individually on the site. Many others can be found through the search and browse functions.

Excellent collection of texts, photos, digitized images of military artifacts, and military publications. Material dates from the mid-1800s. Includes 23,000 photographs from the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS) from the Massachusetts Commandery, considered the single best Civil War photo collection in the world.

Provides access to Korean War materials from the Truman and Eisenhower administrations.

Based upon what President Truman called “the campaign of truth,” these leaflets became one of the primary means of winning the hearts and minds of enemy troops and Korean civilians.

Texts and images related to the war (1846-1848).

A collection of 68 motion pictures, produced between 1898-1901, of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution.

Contains 100,000 pages of letters, diaries and memoirs written 1861-65, by more than 2000 authors.

A selection of letters & diaries; historical texts and documents; oral histories; photographs & maps. Also includes the Official Records of the U.S. Civil War.

Diaries, correspondence, and photographs from the US Civil War.

Includes official records of the Union and Confederate Navies, as well as reports and correspondence of the War of the Rebellion.

Images include scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects. The collection also includes portraits of both Confederate and Union officers, and a selection of enlisted men.

"Documents about the causes, conduct and consequences of the U.S. civil war. " Addresses political, economic, social, religious, racial and gender issues.

A collection of primary documents that mark the course of the war. Included are archive documents signed in the late 1830s which bore relevance to the outbreak of war some 75 years later, as well as memos, letters, treaties and the text of speeches throughout the war and beyond.

The newspaper's mission was to provide scattered troops with a sense of unity and an understanding of their part in the overall war effort. Date coverage is February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919.

Newspaper clippings from the 400-volume, World War History: Daily Records and Comments as Appeared in American and Foreign Newspapers, 1914-1926. "The clippings yield significant information about the political, social, cultural, and economic impact of the war as it is taking place and its aftermath....and contain war-related editorials, features, cartoons, photos, maps, and more."

"Provides a sampling of UW-Madison's World War I Special Collection...Most of these materials were acquired by the University during or in the immediate aftermath of the war and they represent a direct and often very passionate or partisan viewpoint of that conflict."

This archive of primary documents from World War One has been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). International in focus, the archive intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War. Contains full text, images, biographies, personal reminiscences and links to other web resources.

Presents informational pamphlets, government reports, instructions, regulations, declarations, speeches and propaganda materials distributed by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) during the Second World War.

The National World War II Museum is home to thousands of oral histories and hundreds of thousands of photographs. This website offers the visitor a way to browse a sample of these collections and purchase images if interested.

The State Historical Society of Missouri's World War II digital collection includes photographs and letters from servicemen and servicewomen during the war.

With more than fourteen hundred archival collections, Hoover's holdings on World War II are expansive, covering every theater of war in a multitude of languages. Those materials provide a variety of perspectives, from the directives of military officers to clandestine materials by underground movements. Library materials on World War II are equally comprehensive and voluminous.

The Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive collects and preserves the documentary record of the Vietnam War, and supports and encourages research and education regarding all aspects of the American Vietnam Experience. Over 2.7 million pages of scanned materials: documents, photographs, slides, negatives, oral histories, artifacts, moving images, sound recordings, maps and collection finding aids.