Our Common Text: 2003-2004

Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

by Anthony Swofford

Resources Related to: The United States Marine Corps

Searching Wallace Library's Einstein Catalog provides information relating to the United States Marine Corps. Remember, you can do a keyword search or a subject search to locate information on a topic. When doing a keyword search, you can make use of Boolean searching by combining your search words with the words and, or, not. Advanced searching will allow you to set some limitations to your search results. Below is a sampling of titles along with their call numbers and the floor location.

Devilbirds: The Story of the United States Marine Corps Aviation in World War II. D790.D37, 4th floor.
Five Star Leadership: The Art and Strategy of Creating Leaders at Every Level. HD57.7 .T69 1997, 4th floor.
Flags of Our Fathers. D767.99.I9 B73 2000, 4th floor.
Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific. D767.M18, 4th floor.
Guadalcanal Diary. D767.98 .T7, 4th floor.
Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North. VE25.N67 B76 1988, 3rd floor.
Images From the Otherland: Memoir of a United States Marine Corps Artillery Officer in Vietnam. DS559.5 .S98 1995, 4th floor.
Ira Hayes, Pima Marine. D767.99.I9 H38 1988, 4th floor.
The Island War: The United States Marine Corps in the Pacific. D769.369.H6, 4th floor.
The New Breed: The Story of the U.S. Marines in Korea. DS918.G37, 4th floor.
Over There: A Marine in the Great War. Electronic Resource available via NetLibrary.
Payback. U52.K57 1984, 3rd floor.
One Bugle, No Drums: The Marines at Chosin Reservoir. DS919.H56 1986, 4th floor.
One More Bridge to Cross: Lowering the Cost of War. VE160 .P661 1999, 3rd floor.
A Rumor of War. DS559.5 C36, 4th floor.
The Sandino Affair. F1526.3 .S244, 4th floor.
Semper Fidelis: The History of the United States Marine Corps. VD23.M54, 3rd floor.
Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan. D767.L38, 4th floor.
Under Fire. 14-Day Book Collection, 1st floor.

Research Databases:

Click on the above link for the complete list of the RIT Library's Online Databases. Suggested databases are listed below.

Military and Government Collection: Formerly Military Library. Collection includes military and government related titles, trade publications and newsweeklies. Designed to bring current news this database contains: searchable full text for nearly 270 periodicals including Army Times, Navy Times, Naval Institute Proceedings and Joint Forces Quarterly abstracts and indexing for over 430 periodicals and 240 pamphlets.

JSTOR: The journals listed below are available in full-text through the JStor database.
Journal of Military History 1989-1999
Military Affairs 1941-1988
Journal of the American Military Institute 1939-1940
Journal of the American Military History Foundation 1937-1938

Academic Search Elite: Provides information on a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics. It features full text for over 1,200 journals with many dating back to 1990, abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals, and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor.

America: History and Life: Covers United States and Canadian history from pre-history to present.

ArticleFirst: Describe items listed on the table of contents pages of approximately 12,600 journals in science, technology, social science, business, the humanities, etc.

Congressional Quarterly Researcher: The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environmnet, health, education and science and technology.

Contemporary Women's Issues: Focuses on timely and relevant topics and meaningful issues for women, including health, human rights, the work place, legal status, and more.

Country Watch: Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world: political, economic, and business information.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online: Complete 32 volume Encyclopaedia Britannica containing more than 215,000 entries.

Ethnic News Watch: Full-text collection of news, culture and history from ethnic, minority and native press searchable in both English and Spanish.

FirstGov: A centralized place to find information from 20,000+ local, state, and U.S. Government Agency websites.

Historical Abstracts: Covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present. Excludes North America.

Lexis-Nexis Academic: Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical and news and information from over 5000 sources.

Philosopher's Index: Covers philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology and as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

SIRS Government Reporter: The ideal resource to locate information issued by the U.S. government on domestic and international affairs, scientific research, business developments, government procedures and military issues.

Wilson Social Sciences Full Text (part of OmniFile): Covers the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, etc.

World News: African and Middle Eastern news, Asian, Pacific Rim and Australian news, Canadian news, European news, Mexican, Central American and South American news, United States news.

Internet Resources Relating to Military History:

2nd Battalion, 7th Marines. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at 29 Palms, CA

7th Marine Regiment. Homepage with links to Battalion units and Camp Pendleton.

United States Marine Corps. Official website of the USMC.

United States Marine Corps Scout Sniper Association.