Korean War Photos

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/photos/Korea/kor1950/kor1950.htm

Rating: 2, High!

Description: This site is a series of photos from 1952-53 in Korea. It gives a glimpse of what life was like for soldiers and civilians during the Korean War. Standards 10.9.3 and 11.9.3

Resource Type: Photos or Pictures.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 1902

Korean War: A Fresh Perspective

http://www.historynet.com/mh/blthekoreanwar/

Rating: 2, High!

Description: This article by Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr., U.S. Army (ret.), written in 1996 provides fresh insight into the significance of the Korean War in U.S. Cold War Policy. It was the war that tested American assumptions that communism was monolithic and that Europe was the target of communist agression. Standards 10.9.3 and 11.9.3

Comments: This article is all text but clear, well written and reflective.

Resource Type: Secondary Text.

Graphics content: Low.

Resource ID: 1904

Korean War 1950-53

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/history/marshall/military/korean.war/korea.txt

Rating: 3, Medium.

Description: This site, from the American Military History site of the U.S. Army written in 1989, provides an historical overview of the Korean war from the U.S. army perspective. Standards 10.9.3 and 11.9.3

Comments: The typed text is offputting but the information is useful for understanding U.S. military policy during this era of the Cold War.

Resource Type: Secondary Text.

Graphics content: Low.

Resource ID: 1899

Korean War Memorial

http://www.nps.gov/kwvm/

Rating: 3, Medium.

Description: This site from the National Park Service gives information on the Korean War Memorial and an overview of the war itself. Standards 3.4.3, 10.9.3 and 11.9.3

Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 1901