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Further additions to the CARL Digital Library (Objects added 1 May 2008 - 16 May 2008)
Operational Leadership Interviews - New additions - OLE Collection "A project of the Combat Studies Institute, the Operational Leadership Experiences Interview Collection archives firsthand, multi-service accounts from military personnel who planned, participated in and supported operations in the Global War on Terrorism." New addition - MMAS Collection The Master of Military Art and Science (MMAS) program began in 1964. CGSC regular course students may elect to take a set of electives, write a thesis, and earn an accredited Masters. This collection will eventually contain all of the publicly releasable theses, but right now you may find from 1998-2006 theses here. MMAS theses provide in-depth research on historical events, operational issues, and organizations, both existing and proposed. New addition SAMS Collection The School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) is one of the parts of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC). Most SAMS students complete the regular CGSC course, then stay for a second academic year. They write either one or two monographs (depending on the requirement at the time) and are awarded a Master of Military Art and Science (MMAS) graduate degree. Most go on to planning jobs in field units. This collection will eventually contain all the publicly releasable monographs produced since the program began in 1986. Currently you can find the 1998-2006 SAMS monographs in this digital library. SAMS monographs typically address historical events, current operational issues, or new organizational concepts.Latest additions to the CARL Digital Library (Added 1 May 2008 - 16 May 2008)
Collection: Interwar Period Student Papers About this collection: "The Command and General Staff School (CGSS) students at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, produced papers about military history topics during 1930-1936 classes. Some of the papers were written as individual research papers and some were done as a group research monograph. This is a rich resource for interwar topics, as well as lessons learned about past battles and operational art."Browse these latest additions to the CARL Digital Library (added 10-29 Apr 2008)
We've added some 834 interviews from the Operational Leadership Experiences project to our online catalog. Browse them here (originally made available online in our digital library)
"A project of the Combat Studies Institute, the Operational Leadership Experiences Interview Collection archives firsthand, multi-service accounts from military personnel who planned, participated in and supported operations in the Global War on Terrorism."
The University of North Texas library has some 600 WWII posters and US Army Information Branch Newsmaps. Many of the posters consist primarily of American home front posters. War bonds, rationing, enlistment, security, and morale are all topics treated by these artworks. The collection includes posters by such famous artists as Normal Rockwell, Theodore Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss), and Boris Artzybasheff.
The Library of Congress has digitized and made available online more than eighteen hundred American, British, German, Italian and French posters supporting their countries' war efforts, during the period 1914-1920.
107-year-old Frank Buckles of Charles Town, W. Va., is the sole surviving American veteran of the “Great War” that began more than 90 years ago. The Library of Congress has added to its Veterans History Project repository the oral history of this last remaining WWI veteran.
We recently completed adding to our Digital Library the monographs of the 2007 graduating class from the School of Advanced Military Studies. Below you'll find a sample of those related to the subject of counterinsurgency.
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2006 SAMS Monographs on counterinsurgency:
Twelve presidential libraries spanning the Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton administrations have teamed up to create the Presidential Timeline of the 20th Century, a multimedia online archive launched February 15. Spearheaded by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, the collaborative effort presents interactive timelines of each president’s life that include documents, diaries, maps, photo galleries, audio recordings, video clips, and classroom projects for teachers.
The project currently contains 700 primary and secondary documents, some of which were previously available only to scholars. Contributing archivists estimate that continual updates will eventually bring the website’s total number of records into the millions.
The archive allows users to scroll the length of a president’s timeline, click on buttons indicating points of interest, and then opt to view related documents. Users can also choose to overlay the timelines to compare the accomplishments of all presidents during a given time. The website also offers a basic text version of each timeline.
Until now, presidential materials “hadn’t ever been put together and conceptualized in a way that was user-friendly,” LBJ Library Director Betty Sue Flowers told the February 15 Associated Press. Flowers hopes to one day include earlier presidents by incorporating documents from the Library of Congress.
