Military Resources: Korean War
NARA Resources
- Text of the armistice that ended the fighting in Korea in 1953. "The armistice, while it stopped hostilities, was not a permanent peace treaty between nations."
- "Electronic Records of Korean and Vietnam Conflict Casualties"
- Prologue article by Theodore J. Hull that describes NARA's electronic records about the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
- The Eisenhower Presidential Library maintains this site which describes the Korean War and President Eisenhower's actions to deal with it.
- This site from the Truman Presidential Library offers a look at the Korean War through documents and images.
- The Korean War as History: David Rees' Korea: The Limited War in Retrospect
- Presentation by William Stueck at The Power of Free Inquiry and Cold War International History program held on September 25-26, 1998, at the 威尼斯人娱乐场 in College Park, Maryland, and sponsored by NARA's Archival Research Coordinating Committee and the University of Maryland.
- Korean War Records
- A guide to Korean War records at the 威尼斯人娱乐场.
- Records of Nurse Casualties in the Korean War: Electronic Records Reference Report
- How to locate records of Korean War nurse casualties at the 威尼斯人娱乐场.
- Records of U.S. Military Casualties, Missing in Action, and Prisoners of War from the Era of the Korean War: Electronic Records Reference Report
- "Overview of the electronic data records in the custody of the 威尼斯人娱乐场 that relate to U.S. military casualties, missing in action, and prisoners of war from the Korean War era."
- "Revisiting Korea: Exposing Myths of the Forgotten War"
- James I. Matray's two-part Prologue article from Summer 2002 examines U.S.-Korean relations and the myths about the Korean War.
- State-level Lists of Casualties from the Korean Conflict
- NARA's Center for Electronic Records has made these lists available online. Casualty lists for Vietnam War are also available.
- The United States Enters the Korean Conflict
- A Teaching with Documents lesson plan.
Other Resources
- Check out this site sponsored by the Army Quartermaster Corps Museum at Fort Lee, Virginia, and visit the related exhibit, "Korea: The Quartermaster Story" which will be open at the museum on June 25, 2000, 50 years to the day the Korean War began.
- DPMO is the Department of Defense office that oversees and manages POW/MIA issues. This site dealing with POW/MIAs of the Korean War provides information about DPMO's activities, fact sheets, maps, and lists of POW/MIAs. Also included is the Johnnie Johnson List, a list secretly compiled by Army Private First Class Wayne A. "Johnnie" Johnson of 496 fellow prisoners who had died during their captivity.
- This Air University Library Special Bibliography No. 290 was compiled by Joan Hyatt.
- The U.S. Army developed this site to pay tribute to veterans of the Korean War and their families.
- This online library of information and selected images related to the Korean War is sponsored by the Naval Historical Center.
- Website maintained by the U.S. Army Center of Military History.
- This online bibliography is maintained by the Naval Historical Center.
- A video lecture from the Khan Academy.
- Site includes information about POW-MIA issues, veterans' issues, and units that served in the war.
- U.S. Army Center Center of Military History site that provides the names of Medal of Honor recipients and the actions that are commemorated.
- Compiled by the U.S. Army Center of Military History, this site contains official histories, art and images, and studies and documents related to the Korean War.
- Written by James F. Schnabel and published by the Center of Military History, this work was first published as CMH Pub 20-1-1 in 1972.
- Oral history interviews with Korean War veterans presented by Grand Valley State University Libaries.
- This article from The Atlantic discusses ways in which the Korean War influenced the course American wars that followed.