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War, Persian Gulf
 Websites presented in alphabetical order The Gulf War 
 This PBS Frontline site offers interviews with political decision makers and military commanders key to the Gulf War, a chronology of events, and maps of attacks, as well as photos and detailed information on aircraft, ground/space systems, and munitions used during the conflict. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/ Topics: Diseases & Conditions, History, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Sep 26, 2004 The Saddam Hussein Sourcebook
This site provides information based on declassified documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) about the U.S.-Iraq relationship. It provides annotated images of documents relating to the U.S. relationship with Iraq in the early 1980s, weapons of mass destruction, Desert Storm, and 1992 Iraqi war criminals. Also includes aerial photos. From the National Security Archive at the George Washington University Library. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/special/iraq/ Topics: Crime, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, War and Peace: Resources on Iraq Last updated Oct 3, 2005 The Unseen Gulf War
A collection of images of the human consequence of war. These photographs were taken along "'the mile of death' [a road north of Kuwait City] the morning the day the war stopped." According to photographer Peter Turnley, the "televised, aerial, and technological version of the conflict" failed to show the horror of its human realities as does this collection. From The Digital Journalist. Warning: Some of the images are very graphic and disturbing. http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt_intro.html Topics: History, Photograph Collections: History, Photography, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jun 20, 2004 Veterans History Project
This site describes a project to collect "oral history interviews, memoirs, letters, diaries, photographs, and other original materials from veterans of World Wars I and II, and the Korean, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf Wars and the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts (2001-present)." Includes guidelines for participating in the project, including tips for interviewing veterans and writing memoirs. From the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/vets/ Topics: Communities & Groups, History, Military, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, United States History Last updated Apr 3, 2005 |
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