First World War Digital Poetry Archive. The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.
The heart of the archive consists of collections of highly valued primary material from major poets of the period, including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas. This is supplemented by a comprehensive range of multimedia artefacts from the Imperial War Museum, a separate archive of over 6,500 items contributed by the general public, and a set of specially developed educational resources. These educational resources include an exciting new exhibition in the three-dimensional virtual world Second Life. Freely available to the public as well as the educational community, the First World War Poetry Digital Archive is a significant resource for studying the First World War and the literature it inspired.
Iraqi Baath Party Archives in U.S. - Plunder or Rescue? - NYTime. U.S. Soldiers Bring Home Stories, Videos of Atrocities. In 1971, Vietnam vets, frustrated by the lack of official investigation of the atrocities they had both witnessed and perpetrated, gathered to provide their own testimony.
Their harrowing stories were captured in a film, Winter Soldier, that, due to its explosive nature, never reached theaters or TV. (It’s now available on DVD). Some 37 years later, anti-war vets, thanks to the Internet, should have far fewer problems getting their timely stories out into the world. At Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, held last weekend in Washington, soldiers presented videos (Michael Moore posted this one, with U.S. soldiers blasting two mosques, apparently just for fun, along with another featuring a soldier bragging that he “just killed half of the population of Northern Ramadi. Fuck the red tape, it doesn’t matter” ) that surely will be YouTubed.