Government Documents for You

November 9, 2009 is the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. To commemorate this event, I have created a LibGuide highlighting resources available at Mississippi State University and on the Internet about the history of the Berlin Wall. Additionally, in cooperation with the German Missions in the United States, we have books and pamphlets concerning the Berlin Wall and Germany available in the Government Documents, Microforms, and Current Journals Department at the Mitchell Memorial Library.

Additionally, the Mitchell Memorial Library will host an event on November 9th, from 4:30 - 6:00 in the Grisham Room. Five of MSU's professors will each speak about the History of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War, and the lasting significance of this event.

http://guides.library.msstate.edu/Berlin_Wall

September 12, 2007, marked the official debut of The Dirksen Congressional Center's new online version of Congress in the Classroom® - http://moodle.congressclass.org - an award-winning course for teachers. This improved version of the course uses a more interactive approach, featuring many options to engage you (and the instructor) in the course materials.

Congress in the Classroom® Online will help you understand today's Congress and suggest ways to teach about it. The self-paced online course is organized around the twin responsibilities of Congress members: representation and lawmaking. There are twenty individual units on such topics as "What Makes for Effective Members of Congress?" "How Representative is the Membership of Congress?" and "Lawmaking: Understanding the Basics."

Do you teach social studies, American government, American history, or civics? Are your lessons about the U.S. Congress out of date? Is it hard to engage your students in learning about the House and Senate? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then Congress in the Classroom® Online is the course for you!

Link for the Dirksen Congressional Center: http://www.dirksencenter.org/

Post on GovDoc-L from: Cindy Koeppel, Dirksen Congressional Center

Warfare in the Age of Non-State Actors: Implications for the US Army. The Proceedings of the Combat Studies Institute 2007 Military History Symposium. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2007.
SUDOC: D 110.16:2007

This book explores the challenges associated with conflict between nation-states and transnational religious, ethnic, or criminal groups. It also examined the historical experiences of both the United States and other nations in this most asymmetric of environments in an attempt to distill the insights from the past can provide us guidance into the future.

Available on the Internet at: http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/CSI/CSISymposium-2007.pdf

The annual Combat Studies Institute Military History Symposium provides a forum for the interchange of ideas on historical topics pertinent to the current doctrinal concerns of the United States Army. Furthermore, the Symposium solicits input from a diverse group of military personnel, government historians, civilian academicians, journalists, and thinkers in a setting that promotes the exchange of ideas and information.

Previous reports are available at: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS93670

**Text taken from book's preface**

Reynolds,Nicholas E. U.S. Marines in Iraq, 2003: Basrah, Baghdad and Beyond. Washington, D.C.: History Division, U.S. Marine Corps, 2007.
SUDOC: D 214.13:IR 1/2

This book is about Marines during the first stage of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). It spans the period from 11 September 2001 to March and April 2003, when the Coalition removed Saddam Hussein from power, and concludes in November 2003 when the Marines left Kuwait to return to their home bases in the United States. The primary focus of the book is I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) – the run-up to the war in 2002 and early 2003, especially the development of “the plan,” with its many changes, the exhaustive rehearsals, and other preparations, and then the conduct of decisive combat operations and the immediate postwar period, mostly under the control of the U.S. Central Command’s Coalition Forces Land Component Command. The book also touches upon other Marine activities in the Military Coordination and Liaison Command in northern Iraq and with the British in the south. Finally, the book is a beginning to the examination of the early phases of the war in Iraq, a foundation for future scholarship and discussion.

**Text obtained from book’s forward.**

Available on the Internet: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS99051

United States Army, Center of Military History: Considering a Career as a Historian in the Federal Government: A Quick Guide. [Fort Belvoir, VA]: U.S. Army, Center of Military History, [2008?].
SUDOC: D 114.12:C 18

Many history graduate students preparing to enter the academic job market fail to consider career openings in the federal government, and in particular those civilian positions in one of the military services. Graduate students completing their dissertation, regardless of specialization (not just military history), should consider these positions. This pamphlet discusses the opportunities available for interested Historians and strategies they should use to successfully obtain one of these positions.