As part of West Point’s Officer Professional Reading List (.doc), they include the Top Ten Military Classics. While there may be a few quibbles with the selections, most military historians would agree with this list. As such, any aspiring student in the history of warfare should read these classics.

Here is a look at the quickest methods for accessing these classics, some of which are free on the Internet.

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Interview with Morris Koffa
Student at American Public University

Having the ability and innate willingness to help others is a unique gift. Some come by the opportunity by chance, while others take a step further and reach out to help wherever possible. Morris Koffa, is a special individual who did just that. He helped establish a non-profit organization, Africa Environmental Watch, whose purpose is to educate African citizens on environmental issues such as solid waste, toxic waste, community school awareness, hygiene and more. His group also works with the local governments in Africa to provide better education for its citizens through curriculum’s, some that he helped to create, as well as helping to look for ways to improve conditions on drinking water. He accomplishes all of these monumental tasks while in the middle of his second master’s degree with American Public University, and while in the process of also completing his Ph.D. Listen on to learn more about environmental impact concerns in Africa, and the Africa Environmental Watch.

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Charles Dickens

Every historian and every editor should know Stephanie Harvey’s name. Regardless of your field of interest, historians have to be on the lookout for deceptively legitimate claims, especially when we want them to be true.

Stephanie Harvey was an independent scholar whose article saw publication in a 2002 edition of The Dickensian, a scholarly journal on all things related to Charles Dickens. Like most journals, it accepts both professional and independent scholarship. Harvey’s article, “Dickens’s Villains: Confession and a Suggestion,” told a simple story of how Dickens met Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1862.

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Any student of medieval history should be immediately aware of the British Library’s efforts to digitize roughly 25,000 medieval manuscripts. This effort is bringing about a golden age of access to source material for medievalists.

Yet, what is remarkable about the British Library’s effort is the interface they have created for navigating the pages. This is not just a set of PDF files, which are cumbersome to navigate. For example, look at this copy of Beowulf. Viewers can click on the page to zoom in, or use their mouse wheel for zooming in and out. In addition, the arrow keys quickly move the pages back and forth.

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