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!

Book Connection Art/Writing Contest Information

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

4 Things Kayla Hopes Freshmen Take From the Book

1. BE AWARE OF THE CHANGING ROLE OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY- As society changes, the military changes. Challenges that women face in the military are not exclusive to the military or war.
2. WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF OUR VETERANS- We all have a role in the war, ours is to take care of our returning soldiers and make sure they get what they need. We need to VOTE to make changes.
3. WE HAVE A PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY- That responsibility is to serve the larger community. The Army's fundamental core values: Duty, Service and Sacrifice. Why should those values stop with the army? We (as the people of this nation) have a duty to give back to the larger community.
4. CIVILIZATION CLASH- It's easy to have a "US v THEM" mentality if you dehumanize the "enemy". We need to appreciate diversity and communicate- work past our different cultures and get to basic human rights.

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

Additional Resources Suggested by Kayla Williams

Brandon Friedman- The War I Always Wanted

Steve Mumford- Baghdad Journal

Jason Hartley- Just Another Soldier

Michael Gold- Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace

Anthony Shadid- Night Draws Near

John Crawford- The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell

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