Images From American Wars


The following resources will help you in your search for images from the American wars
 

 Online Image Databases

 


Note: If you access this database from a computer outside of school, you will have to enter the barcode number located on the back of your public library card.

For help searching, and citing, click User Guide

AP Images

The Associated Press has won more Pulitzer Prizes than any other news agency, and is the most credible source for non-biased reporting. Now you can search the AP's  over one million photographs dating back to 1826 and as current as a few moments ago.

 

  Live Photo Archive

 
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

 

  Picture History


Licensed digital images illustrating more than 200 years of American history.

 

 

 

Format for citing a  PAINTING, SCULPTURE, OR PHOTOGRAPH:
Creator's Last, First name. Title of work. Year created. Title of web site. Day Month Year of access <URL>.

 

 

 Internet Sites

 

General

Digital Journalism During Wartime: http://www.ojr.org/ojr/lasica/1048185883.php

 

Fact Sheet - America's Wars (casuality statistics for all wars): www1.va.gov/opa/fact/amwars.asp

 

PBS Reporting America at War: http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/about/
 

Portraying the Graphic Face of War: http://www.jdlasica.com/articles/OJR-photojournalism.html

 

Spanish
American
Images of the Spanish-American War: http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~worldwarone/Spanish-AmericanWar/images.html


Library of Congress - The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/sawhtml/

 

Military Images - Spanish-American War: http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/showgallery.php/cat/797
 

World Book Encyclopedia - Spanish American War: http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar522920&st=spanish+american+war

 

World War I First World War.com - Vintage Photographs: www.firstworldwar.com/photos/index.htm

 

Modern American Poetry - A World War I Photo Essay: www.english.illinois.edu/maps/ww1/photoessay.htm

 

Photos of the Great War - World War I Gallery: http://www.gwpda.org/photos/coppermine/index.php

 

World Book Encyclopedia - World War I: www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar610440&st=world+war+i

 

World War II American World War Photographs: www.world-war-pictures.com/american-world-war-photos.htm

 

Historical World War II Photos: http://go.footnote.com/wwii_photos/

 

Images of World War II - How the Camera Became a Weapon: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,339728,00.html

 

The National Archives - World War II Photos: http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/

 

Women Come to the Front - Journalists, Photographers, Broadcasters During WWII: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/

 

World Book Encyclopedia - World War II: http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar610460&st=world+war+i

 

Korean Korean War Photographs: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/korea/koreawar.htm

 

Korean War Photos: http://www.bevinalexander.com/korea/korean-war-photos.htm

 

USA Korean War Commemoration - Images: http://korea50.army.mil/images/index.shtml

 

The War Page - Korean War Photos: http://www.thewarpage.com/korea1.html

 

World Book Encyclopedia - Korean War: http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar304360&st=korean+war

 

Vietnam American Experience - Vietnam Online: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/timeline/

 

BBC News - In Pictures: The Vietnam War: news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/in_pictures_the_vietnam_war_/html/1.stm

 

Larry Burrough's Vietnam: http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0302/lb_index.html

 

National Archives - The War in Vietnam: www.archives.gov/education/lessons/vietnam-photos/

 

Vietnam War Photographs: www.patriotduty.com/war-pictures/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-photographs.html

 

Vietnam War Internet Project - Image Library: http://www.vwip.org/coppermine/index.php

 

World Book Encyclopedia - Vietnam War: http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar585370&st=vietnam+war

 

Gulf Frontline: - The Gulf War: www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/

 

Gulf War photographs: http://www.history.army.mil/photos/gulf_war/index.htm

 

The Unseen Gulf War: http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt01.html

 

Washington Post - War in Iraq - Persian Gulf War 1991: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/iraq/primer/front.html?highlights

 

World Book Encyclopedia - Persian Gulf War of 1991: http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar424190&st=gulf+war

 

Afghanistan Afghanistan - The Road to Kabul: http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0208/rh_index.htm

 

BBC News - In Pictures: Afghan's War Debris: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/3733188.stm

 

CNN World - War in Afghanistan: http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/afghanistan.war/index.html

 

PBS Frontline - Afghanistan: the Other War: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/afghanistan604/

 

World Book Encyclopedia - Afghanistan War of 2001: http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar753087&st=afghanistan+war

 

Iraq BBC News - In Pictures The War on Iraq Begins: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/2866897.stm

 

CBS News - Images of War: America at War: www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/america_at_war/images_of_war/framesource_images.html

 

CNN - War in Iraq: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/

 

Iraq Pictures: http://iraqpictures.blogspot.com/

 

Reuters - Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War: http://iraq.reuters.com/

 

Washington Post - War in Iraq From Our Correspondents (see also "Photos") www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/iraq/primer/front.html?highlights

 

World Book Encyclopedia - Iraq War: http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar751414&st=iraq+war#top

 

 

If you don't find what you're looking for in any of the sites above, try your 
own keyword search using the following tips...

 

 Internet Search Tips

 

Type the URL (web site address) of a search directory/engine in the address box: ex: www.yahoo.com, or www.google.com, etc.
 

(Be sure to type the address exactly the way you see it, including any uppercase letters and punctuation).
 

Type in keyword(s). (If your keyword or phrase is made up of two or more words such as: "winning hearts and minds", or  "Iraqis welcome US troops" be sure to put quotes around it.
 

Hit Enter on your keyboard, or click on Search, then scan the description of the "hits" (entries) and click on the links that sound best.
 
Be sure to critically evaluate Internet sources.  UC Berkley Library's Evaluating Webpages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask is an excellent source to help you critique the quality of websites in the following areas:

Remember: if you choose to use any information (text or graphics) found on the Internet, online databases, or print material, you must cite every resource you used.  Use the Works Cited Guide to access MLA format.

 

 

Created by Liza Zandonella, Library Media Specialist.

 

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