Faculty Resources Page

The 2008 Book Connection selection, Love My Rifle More Than You, is in! We have copies for instructors who plan to integrate the book into their 2008-09 fall/spring classes.

Stop by the Office of First-Year Programs to get your copy!

Iraq War
America at the Crossroads Web site for the PBS project focused on post-9/11 American history

Crossroads Timeline Various timelines of the war in Iraq and the war on terror from the PBS Crossroads web site

Bush's War Web site for two part Frontline documentaries chronicling the war in Iraq

Iraq Timeline Timeline for the war in Iraq from Bush’s War.

NY Times Timeline Timeline for the war in Iraq from the New York Times

BBC Iraq Web site from the BBC focused on coverage of the war in Iraq

Information about Kayla Williams

Listen to Kayla Williams introduce and read excerpts from her book

Wikipedia Article on Williams from Wikipedia

W.W. Norton web site about Love My Rifle More Than You

Interview with Williams on Fresh Air

Interview with Williams on BBC's Hardtalk

Web article from Stars and Stripes

Radio interview on The State of Things

Blogs

A selection of blogs from US soldiers, each containing links to many more soldier blogs

America at a Crossroads: Operation Homecoming Documentary focused on the National Endowment for the Arts project centered on writer's workshops for Iraqi war veterans.

Men in Black Animated feature based on a piece by Colby Buzzell.

Colby Buzzell's Blog Soldier featured in Operation Homecoming whose blog led to the book, My War: Killing Time in Iraq

Frontline: Bad Voodoo's War PBS documentary featuring videos made by soldiers serving in a platoon in Iraq

Toby Nunn's Blog Soldier featured in Bad Voodoo’s War

Millblogging Collection of soldier’s blogs

Doc in the Box Blog by a Navy corpsman on his fourth tour of duty in Iraq

YouTube War 2006 Ana Marie Cox article from Time magazined about the proliferation of soldier-produced videos online.

Iraqi Blogs

Baghdad Burning Blog by Riverbend, one of the first Iraqi bloggers to receive widespread attention

HNK’s Blog Blog by a young Iraqi college student

Baghdad Girl Another blog by an Iraqi college student

An Average Iraqi Blog by a male college student living in Baghdad

Fayrouz In Beaumont Blog written by an Iraqi woman who now lives and works in Texas

Soldier's Music

4th25 Rap group composed of Iraq war soldiers who wrote and recorded an album, Straight Out of Baghdad, while on duty in Iraq.

Brooke Gladstone interview with Sergeant Neal Saunders, the leader of 4th25

4th25’s MySpace page

Voices from the Frontline Compilation of rap songs recorded by Iraq war soldiers

Voices From the Frontline web site

Voices from the Frontline MySpace page

To The Fallen Records Record label started by an Iraq war veteran dedicated to publishing the music of other veterans

Rolling Stone article about To The Fallen Records

Label web site

Veteran’s Issues

"Female Vets Find Help With Emotional Wounds" Story from the Buffalo News featured on the Military.com web site.

Service Women’s Action Network Activist organization aimed at the needs of women veterans