Army Heritage Collections Online

U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC). 
The U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC) is the United States Army's preeminent museum and research complex. We are dedicated to educating and preserving the legacy of the men and women who have served their nation as Soldiers.

Mission: The USAHEC team makes historical materials available for use to support the U.S. Army, educate an international audience, and honor Soldiers - past and present.
Intent: Our intent is to establish the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center as the nation's preeminent military research and education complex, dedicated to the study of the United States Army. In order to achieve this goal, the team must adapt. We will transform the organization, creating a digital archive, multi-discipline processing team, and historical services team. Additionally, we will combine customer support and education activities, as well as move collection management activities to the staff.

The Digital Documents section of this site provides access to materials drawn from the archival collections of the United States Army Military History Institute. The available materials range from over 6,000 Civil War photographs to transcripts of interviews from the Senior Officer Oral History Program.
Users may browse the materials by collection name, specific time period, or by type of material (photographs, military publications, audio/visual items, oral history material, and finding aids to the institute's holdings). The effective searching mechanism provides searching by creator/author, collection, series, historical time period, title, keywords, and full text.  Within full-text searching, the entered terms can be searched as Boolean (which requires an exact match), Pattern (which does not require an exact match), or Concept (which uses thesauri). Reviewed in ACRL's May 2011 issue of CHOICE.