Images From American Wars

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/
 

PBS Freedom: A History of Us [Need to select time period, then enter specific search term, i.e. Stamp Act]

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/tools/search_ph.html

PBS Liberty: The American Revolution [Timeline is very cool and has links to Tea Act, etc.  Road to Revolution Game makes reference to many of the acts as well.]

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/index.html

For Teachers:

National Park Service (NPS) The American Revolution, Revolutionary Teaching Resources, Lesson 1: Prelude to the Revolutionary War- This is a lengthy lesson plan with many excellent primary sources. 

http://www.nps.gov/revwar/educational_resources/teachers.html

Library of Congress American Memories Collection- One of the very best resources, but hard to navigate due to its size.  If you’re patient, you can find some absolutely amazing Primary Sources here.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/continental-congress/index.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

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

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 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

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 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

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

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