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Old 04-15-2011, 15:56   #31
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American naval history resources: The Naval Vessel Register

The Naval Vessel Register is available here.
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The Naval Vessel Register contains information on ships and service craft that comprise the official inventory of the US Navy from the time of vessel authorization through its life cycle and disposal. It also includes ships that have been stricken but not disposed. Ships and service craft disposed of prior to 1987 are currently not included, however the data is gradually being added along with other updates.
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Old 07-11-2011, 14:58   #32
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The ANES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior

The ANES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior website has data on electoral demographics and views on policy issues.
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The Guide provides immediate access to tables and graphs that display the ebb and flow of public opinion, electoral behavior, and choice in American politics over time. It serves as a resource for political observers, policy makers, and journalists, teachers, students, and social scientists.

The Guide currently contains data from 1948 through 2008. (NOTE: no ANES time series study was conducted in 2006).

Displays in the Guide are organized into nine topics:
  1. Social and Religious Characteristics of the Electorate (such as age, race, gender, education, and religion)
  2. Partisanship and Evaluation of the Political Parties
  3. Ideological Self-Identification
  4. Public Opinion on Public Policy Issues (such as health care, affirmative action, abortion, the military, and the economy)
  5. Support for the Political System (such as trust in government and government responsiveness)
  6. Political Involvement and Participation in Politics (such as voter turnout, campaign contributions and other activities, attention to the campaign in the media, and interest in politics)
  7. Evaluation of the Presidential Candidates
  8. Evaluation of Congressional Candidates
  9. Vote Choice (for president, for U.S. House of Representatives, and split-ticket voting)

Questions represented in the Guide are a small but significant portion of the questions that have been asked in the American National Election Studies time series. Guide data have been produced from the ANES Cumulative Data File, which combines data from the individual ANES time series studies for selected questions.*
The Guide's homepage is here.

The tables and graphs are there.


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* Source is here.
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Old 07-11-2011, 15:55   #33
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U.S. political data

The Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives maintains election data from 1920 to the present here.

Political data in the U.S. Census Bureau's 2011 Statistical Abstract are available here.

Party Divisions of the House of Representatives (1789 to Present) is available here. The data are in a table that is a mess.

Party Division in the Senate, 1789-Present, is available here. The data are in a table that is a mess.
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Old 08-30-2011, 16:50   #34
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George C. Marshall

The George C. Marshall Foundation's digital library has a number of valuable resources.

The on line edition first five volumes of Marshall's papers are available at the following URLs. One should note that each paper is a separate Microsoft Word document, and each document has a suggested reference. However, I believe the references conform to a previous edition of the Chicago Manual of Style rather than the more recent sixteenth edition.
Volume 1: The Soldierly Spirit, December 1880 - June 1939
Volume 2: We Cannot Delay, July 1, 1939-December 6, 1941
Volume 3: The Right Man for the Job, December 7, 1941-May 31, 1943
Volume 4: Aggressive and Determined Leadership, June 1, 1943-December 31, 1944
Volume 5: The Finest Soldier, January 1, 1945--January 7, 1947
Marshall's congressional testimony is available here.

Forrest C. Pouge's biography of Marshall is available at the following links.
Volume 1: Education of a General
Volume 2: Ordeal and Hope
Volume 3: Organizer of Victory
Volume 4: George C Marshall Statesman
A collection of Pogue's interviews and recollections are here.
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Old 10-12-2011, 19:35   #35
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The U.S. Army in World War II

Known collectively as "the Green Books," the multi-volume history of the American army during World War II stands as an enduring tribute to the role historical inquiry plays in a free society.

The Army's Center for Military History has made the individual volumes available in PDF format. Unfortunately (and is too often the case with .GOV websites), the PDFs are cumbersome given the resources tasked to their distribution. Moreover, there's no way to use a download utility to grab all of the volumes at once. Finally, the scheme used to name the PDFs leaves a lot to be desired. Consequently, interested parties have no choice but to do a lot of pointing, clicking, renaming, and waiting. (Me, bitter? Never.)

In any case.
  • The reader's guide is here.
  • The eight volumes focusing on the War Department are here.
  • The two volumes on the Army ground forces are here.
  • The single volume on the Army service forces is here.
  • The two volumes on the Western Hemisphere are here.
  • Eleven volumes on the War in the Pacific are here.
  • Four volumes on the Mediterranean Theater of Operations are there.
  • The ten volumes centered around the European Theater of Operations are here.
  • The single volume dealing with the Middle East is here.
  • The three volumes on the China Burma India Theater are here.
  • Twenty-three volumes on the Technical Services are here.
  • Ten volumes of Special Studies (including MANHATTAN) are here.
  • The three volume Pictorial Record is here.
At this point, a caveat is in order. The Journal of Military History has recently published an extensive article by James Lacey that carefully details GEN Albert C. Wedemeyer's deliberate efforts over a span of years to present himself fraudulently as the sole author of the VICTORY program. Lacey points out that
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In modern terms, Wedemeyer’s version of the “Victory Program” is analogous to any one of hundreds of PowerPoint presentations given to Pentagon audiences every month—over in an hour and just as quickly forgotten. It was not until after the war that historians discovered the “importance”*
Because of this falsehood, many of the discussions in the Green Books of the formulation of America's grand strategy for the war are historically inaccurate in their specific references to Wedemeyer's VICTORY program. These inaccuracies come at the expense of the contributions of those Americans--ADM. Harold Stark, and economists Robert Nathan, Simon Kuznets, and Stacy May--who projected the United States's needs for a global coalition war.


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* James Lacey, "World War II's Real Victory Program," Journal of Military History 75:3 (July 2011): 812.
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Old 10-13-2011, 07:32   #36
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Citation Machine

Here is a link to a web page that will automatically format citations for you after you provide either the ISBN or pertinent info into the data fields. You can select MLA, APA, Chicago, or Turabian formatting of the information and get both internal formating and endnote formats for the source.

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Old 10-13-2011, 15:10   #37
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Here is a link to a web page that will automatically format citations for you after you provide either the ISBN or pertinent info into the data fields. You can select MLA, APA, Chicago, or Turabian formatting of the information and get both internal formating and endnote formats for the source.

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FWIW, the most current edition of the Chicago Manual of Style is the sixteenth. The website uses the fifteenth edition.
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Old 10-13-2011, 15:22   #38
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Here is a link to a web page that will automatically format citations for you after you provide either the ISBN or pertinent info into the data fields. You can select MLA, APA, Chicago, or Turabian formatting of the information and get both internal formating and endnote formats for the source.

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Damn, where were you ten years ago?!
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Old 07-02-2012, 11:47   #39
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Strategic/"capstone" planning and the U.S. Navy.

The Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) has recently published a collection of studies/reports related to the development of American naval strategy.

Some of those items can be located using "capstone" as a search term. Results of such a search are located here.
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Old 07-08-2012, 13:00   #40
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Office of the Secretary of Defense/Joint Staff FOIA Library

This collection, available here, contains records/documents related to:
  • ADMINISTRATION and MANAGEMENT
  • HOMELAND DEFENSE
  • INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
  • LOGISTICS and MATERIAL READINESS
  • OPERATIONS and PLANS
  • PERSONNEL and PERSONNEL READINESS
  • SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY
For those who belong to the tin foil crowd, materials related to UFOs can be found under homeland defense.
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Old 09-13-2012, 18:15   #41
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The Iranian Hostage Crisis

This post is in response to a comment offered by a fellow member of this BB in another forum.
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As for the Iranian Hostage crisis I will have to defer to those of you in the know. I'm not that well read on it, and have no idea what was going on behind the scenes.
FYI/FWIW, a place to start is Warren Christopher, et al., eds, American Hostages in Iran: The Conduct of a Crisis (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).

Also, the FOIA Request Service Center for the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff has an archive of declassified documents available here.

Additionally, one can find digitized files from the Carter Presidential Library related to the hostage crisis through NARA's search portal located here. (Guidance on using the portal is available here.)

Moreover, one can find some transcripts of the Miller Center's exit interviews of members of the Carter administration here.

Further, the Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project and the center's Middle East Program co hosted with GWU's National Security Archive a conference in 2005 on The Carter Administration and the Arc of Crisis, 1977-1981. While the CWIHP's website appears not to have copies of the papers delivered at that conference available, it has posted the conference's agenda, a list of its participants, and their biographies.

Additional materials are discussed in the bibliographic essay in Barton I. Kaufman and Scott Kaufman, The Presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr., second edition, revised, American Presidency series (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006), especially on pages 291-292.

A comment. I strongly urge interest parties to retrieve materials sooner rather than later. It is my observation that websites designed to aid on line research are getting less and less friendly to researchers. (My hunches are that [1] IT teams are trying to keep end users from using tools like DownThemAll! to crawl websites and [2] archival teams are not thinking through the best way to make materials available to the general public.)

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Old 10-06-2012, 01:21   #42
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For the Common Defense, third edition

The Free Press has brought to market a third revised edition of what is arguably the best single volume survey of American military history.

This edition is titled For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States from 1607 to 2012 by Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski, and William B. Feis. The ISBN-13 is 9781451623536.

This edition includes new chapters on contemporary events up through GWOT, revised and expanded chapters on the Korean War, and incorporates the findings of scholarly works published over the past twenty years. (Yes, I know this will be a deal breaker for some, but you cannot please everyone.) Moreover, the authors have subjected every chapter to intensive peer reviews by established authorities on the many aspects of American military history.

Unfortunately, a key feature of the previous two editions is missing. The extended bibliographic references at the end of each chapter as well as the general bibliography have been omitted. Instead, these bibliographies have been posted i on line here in PDF format. In the event you cannot access these PDFs, please let me know via PM. (For better and for worse, the latest bibliography excludes articles from academic journals.)

One additional gripe. The paper quality binding of the printed edition--soft cover only--leaves a lot to be desired. At one time, The Free Press put out durable books. Now, one might be better off buying the digital version of this work if one intends to make extensive use of it.
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USAFA Harmon Memorial Lecture Series, 1959-

From the Harmon Memorial Lecture series website, here.
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The Department of History, United States Air Force Academy, is the point of contact for the Superintendent's oldest and most prestigious lecture series at the United States Air Force Academy. The purpose is twofold: to promote a greater knowledge of military history in the United States and abroad, and to stimulate a lifelong interest among cadets in their professional subject.

Each year a committee of internationally known historians and Academy representatives select an outstanding military historian, or a first-rate scholar from a closely related field, who is invited to present a lecture on a subject of his or her choice within broadly construed field of military history. In keeping with the purpose of the series, the lecture is published and distributed to leading scholars and libraries throughout the world.

These lectures are known collectively as the "Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History," in memory of the accomplishments of the late Lieutenant General Hubert R. Harmon, the first Superintendent of the Academy. General Harmon's lifelong personal interest in military history makes it particularly appropriate that he be honored in this way.
A PDF version of The Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History, 1959-1987: A Collection of the First Thirty Harmon Lectures Given at the United States Air Force Academy ed., Lieutenant Colonel Harry R. Borowski (Washington, D.C.: Office Of Air Force History United States Air Force Washington, D.C., 1988) is available here.
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Stacklife: The Digital Public Library of America

Don't let the home page fool you. It begins with a stack books in the cooking section. Use the search button (something we're all familiar with <cough>) and get lost in the shelves that house your area of interest.

Stacklife allows users to create their own collections, or "shelves" from over 1,743,540 books, historical papers, transcripts, etc. It's like having your own private digital library.

The three collections currently in StackLife are:

107,990 items from the Biodiversity Heritage Library
541,305 volumes from the Internet Archive's Open Library
1,094,245 volumes from The Hathi Trust.

Be sure to clear your schedule before going here. It's easy to lose track of time.
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The Founders' Constitution

The Founders' Constitution is a web based archive of documents sponsored by The University of Chicago Press and the Liberty Fund.

The TOC is available here <<LINK>>.
The search engine is available here <<LINK2>>.
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