CSUF ISDS Research Guide

Journals and Articles

For electronic and print indexes to find journal articles in History, see Indexes on the main History page. The following are additional resources specific to Military history and studies.

Indexes specific to military periodicals:

Index to Military Periodicals	Online and in DOCS/FICHE/US D301.26/2 Subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals.
Military Education and Research Library Network	Access to library holdings and electronic information resources of 13 major military libraries.

Bibliographies of military history

Military Affairs, available through JSTOR, publishes a bibliography of recent literature in every issue of the journal. Currently entitled, "Recent Journal Articles," this regular feature used to be called "Recent Periodical Literature."

Use the Journals Title List to check to see if we have a particular periodical available online or on the shelf. Use the Library Catalog to check and see if we have a particular, older periodical available in microforms or in special collections.

Books and Reference

The following are additional examples of Library Catalog (Library of Congress) subject terms for Military History:

Armed forces [country] history
Military art and science
Women and the military
Military history
Naval art and science
Military planning
Civil-military relations
Military policy
War
Battles
Deterrence strategy
Weapons of mass destruction
Strategy
French and Indian War 1755 1763
Nuclear warfare
United States History Revolution 1775 1783
United States History Civil War
World War 1914 1918
World War 1939 1945
Vietnam War 1961 1975

FINDING BOOKS NOT OWNED BY CSUF

Try some of these other library catalogs to find additional materials:

Link+

Search and order books (no periodicals) through CSUF Library Catalog
2-4 day delivery

Melvyl

UC-wide+ book catalog
Travel to nearby campuses to read (without borrowing privileges) or order online through CSUF ILLiad (1-2 week delivery)

WorldCat

click on Search Libraries Worldwide to look for items from thousands of library catalogs combined
libraries are listed in order of distance from the Cal State Fullerton campus

Reference books are good sources to consult at the beginning of a research project. They help define your topic, provide chronology and context, identify key people and events, and locate both primary and secondary source material for your research. There are many books in our reference collection related to military history, including encyclopedias and dictionaries of specific wars & battles, biographical sources, atlases, and more. Search or browse the following call numbers and subject headings:

D: World History

E-F: United States History

U: Military Science

V: Naval Science

Specific Wars -- Examples

United States History Revolution 1775 1783

United States History Civil War

World War 1914 1918

World War 1939 1945

Vietnamese Conflict 1961 1975

Bibliography -- Examples

A Guide to the Sources of United States Military History Call Number: E181z .G83 1975

This four-volume set is arranged by war and includes bibliographic essays, lists and discussions of important published and unpublished primary and second sources for the study of U.S. military history. Includes suggestions for further research.

Web

The following web sites provide substantive research information about the military. When you come across additional sites, use Six Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites to determine whether the information is credible, and then e-mail this site to suggest a link.

Evaluation: Six Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites

See also: Web sites in U.S. History

Associations

Society for Military History

"Devoted to stimulating and advancing the study of military history."

United States Commission on Military History

United States Government

Military History links from the University of Maryland Libraries Government Documents Department
Military Resources: Military History

Links to resources compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

Air Force Historical Research Agency

Repository for Air Force historical documents.

US Army Center of Military History

Responsible for writing the official history of the US Army. Full-text online books from the Colonial Era through the Cold War years; online photographs, bibliographies and more.

Naval Historical Center

Official history program of the US Navy. Online photographs, bibliographies of Naval history, some full-text publications.

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS)

"The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System is a computerized database containing very basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War. The initial focus of the CWSS is the Names Index Project, a project to enter names and other basic information from 5.4 million soldier records in the National Archives. Other information will include: histories of regiments in both the Union and Confederate Armies, links to descriptions of 384 significant battles of the war, and other historical information."

Primary Source Digital Collections

General

Digitized (Primary Source) Resources from the Military Education Research Library Network (MERLN)
Digital Library Program, Library of Virginia: Documents from Revolutionary War & Civil War

Civil War

World War I

American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election

World War II

Historic Government Publications from World War II: A Digital Library
This site from Southern Methodist University provides more than 200 WW II era Pamphlets, with special focus on the home front.

Prepared by Rosemary McGill, Judy Ruttenberg, Robert Sage, and Susan Tschabrun. Maintained by Robert Sage.
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