HIST H106 American History II: Blogs of War (Schuster) 

Blogs are logs or journals maintained on the Web. Many serve as personal diaries, but they can also serve as commentary on a specific subjects such as current events, politics, books, and movies.
Following is a very brief current selection of blogs related to the war in Iraq. Remember that blogs reflect the opinions and attitudes of the writer.

Blog Checklist

Useful blogs should have the majority of these features.

• About section with contact information
• Archives section reveals how many years the blogger has been posting entries
• Links to news and/or information sources
• Blogroll is links to other blogs

General Directories of Iraqi Blogs

Blog Catalog Links to blogs from a variety of countries and sources.

Yahoo Iraq War Blogs and Diaries lists blogs on Iraq by popularity.

Soldier's Blogs

MilBlogging.Com

•  Provides information about milblogs by country including Afghanistan and Iraq
• Find blogs by branch of the military and gender

MilBlogs, Black Five's Favorites

• Top military blogs organized by branch of military and country
• Includes top bloggers from 2005

Sandbox

• Cartoonist Garry Trudeau's milblog created for troops to "report on themselves" in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Examples of military blogs:

AbleKane Blog

ARMOR GEDDON

Books

Order these books by searching for the book in IUCAT Catalog (Indiana University's online library catalog) then use the Request Delivery to have the book sent to Helmke Library.

Burden, Matthew Currier. The Blog of War: Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Simon and Schuster, 2006.

Salam Pax. Salam Pax: The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi. Grove Press 2003.

Smith, Craig A. The World Wide Web of War. U.S. Army War College, 2006. (available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA449402)

Stanford, David. Doonesbury.com's The Sandbox: Dispatches from Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. McMeel Pub., 2007.

Trouern-Trend, Jonathan. Birding Babylon: a Soldier's Journal from Iraq. Sierra Club Books, 2006.

Wood, Trish. What was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It. Little, Brown, 2006.

Citing Blogs

Below is an example of footnote and bibliography citation of a blog. For more information about citing blogs see the Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide.

Footnote:
     10. Neil Prakash, "November 9(D+1): V-I-B-I-D?," Armor Geddon Blog, entry posted  December 29, 2004, http://avengerredsix.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_archive.html (accessed March 20, 2009).

Bibliography:
Armor Geddon Blog. http://avengerredsix.blogspot.com/.

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