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Military and Aerospace Science: Getting Started

This guide will help you locate library information about military science and aerospace science. It is primarily a guide for students and faculty in the Army and Air Force ROTC programs..

What's in the Military and Aerospace Science Research Guide?

Military and aerospace science are scholarly fields of inquiry that examine the history, theories, and practices of the armed forces.

This guide provides information and links to the following areas:

Articles & Databases

Books, Journals, & Magazines

Websites

Select News Sources, Background Information, & References

Authorship & Acknowledgements

This library guide was primarily written by Harry L. Whitlock, a Library Specialist at the University of Wyoming. He is also a veteran of 21 years active duty in the U.S. Army. Thanks to Emily Keller (University of Washington) for permission to reuse and modify her original library guides on this subject. You can view her library guide at the following link:

University of Washington

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UW Libraries QuickSearch: includes the collections of the University Libraries, UW Law Library, and the American Heritage Center. Searches almost everything.

Use this QuickSearch link to search Books, E-Books & Media.

Lastly, use this QuickSearch link to search Course Reserves.

Interlibrary Loan: UW students, faculty and staff can request books, journal volumes, journal articles and other materials, regardless of whether it is available in the UW Libraries, online or in libraries around the world. A free service! Interlibrary Loan link.

Library Search/Retrieval Options

 

UW Libraries QuickSearch: includes the collections of the University Libraries, UW Law Library, and the American Heritage Center.

 


Prospector: a unified catalog of twenty-three academic, public and special libraries in Colorado and Wyoming. UW students, faculty and staff can borrow materials from Prospector.

 

 

yellow arrow on a sky blue boxInterlibrary Loan: UW students, faculty and staff can request books, journal volumes, journal articles and other materials, regardless of whether it is available in the UW Libraries, online or in libraries around the world. A free service!

 

Military History at the University of Wyoming

Charles Varnum Charles Varnum (1849 - 1936) was the Professor of Military Science (PMS) at the University of Wyoming from 1895 to 1898. He was the third PMS at UW. He is best remembered as one of three surviving officers from the command of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer that was defeated at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 26, 1876. He was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1890 for his action in another battle during the Indian Wars of the US.

Click this link to view a more thorough biography of Varnum at the National Park Service website.

Image: Public Domain. Unknown photograph, retrieved from National Park Service website 25 Jun 2015,(www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/images/varnum_1.jpg).

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