WikiProject GLAM/Pritzker Military Museum & Library will serve as the hub for all Wikipedia community events, content work, and community collaboration on articles related to the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in Chicago, the Pritzker Military Archives Center in Somers, Wisconsin, and its collections. To learn more about our collections, see Museum overview or Library overview. If you are interested in helping, please leave your username in the participants section. If you have any questions, feel free to post them on the talk page.

This project aims to coordinate the sharing of resources between the Pritzker Military Museum & Library and the Wikimedia community. The Pritzker Military Museum & Library's mission aligns closely with Wikipedia’s goal to provide "free access to the sum of all human knowledge." The Museum and Library's collections covers all branches of the United States military from the colonial era to the present. The collections focus on the concept of the Citizen Soldier as an important element in a democratic society.^[1]

• to train staff and others how they can add material to Wikipedia according to Wikipedia rules and without violating Conflict of Interest guidelines
• to write articles on topics and authors represented in the collections of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library and its branch location, the Pritzker Military Archives Center (in Wisconsin)
• to update book citations in general military history articles, including adding ISBNs and OCLC numbers
• to add VIAF numbers to biography articles of individuals associated with military history and military writing including fiction
• to illustrate articles with images donated by Pritzker Military Museum & Library and to properly categorize these images at Wikimedia Commons
• to create all the proper user boxes, project tags, etc. in order to keep track of project statistics.

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Monuments

WWI

• World War I Memorial (Baldwin New York)
• World War I Commemorative Plaque (Berkley, California)
• Brown County Texas WWI Memorial
• Rock of the Marne Memorial
• Cape May Soldier and Sailors Monument
• Chinese Americans Veterans Memorial (San Francisco, CA)
• Doughboy Statue (Morton Grove, Illinois)

Songs

WWI

WWII

Other

• The Air Raid Warden Song, a song
• All America Swings, a song
• Commander-in-Chief (march)
• The Wreck of the Shenandoah, a song
• The Yankee Maid March, song by Blanche Wood Leger

People

Historians

Former servicemembers

• Mark DePue, historian & retired military officer
• Paul H. Herbert, historian, retired Army colonel, and former Executive Director of the Cantigny First Division Foundation
• Robert C. Doyle, historian & retired naval intelligence officer

Military historians

Military people

Prior to 1800

• Frate Lodovico Melzo, a Knight of St. John of Jerusalem

Currently serving

• Eric Wesley (soldier), Brigadier General, currently Deputy Commanding General (Support) and Acting Senior Commander of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division
• Joseph Streff, current Alaska Army National Guard commander
• Ryan F. Gonsalves, Major General, currently commanding the 4th Division

Veterans

World War I & World War II Leaders & Personalities

Other

• Amanda Mathew, the first woman to lead a deployed combat arms platoon
• Paul Swiergosz, United States army officer
• Ruth Hammond Broe, Colonel in USMCR, received posthumously the The Colonel Julia E. Hamblet Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation for her work in furthering "the recognition of the history of women who have earned the title Marine"
• Sean Parnell (soldier)
• William J. Reilly, U.S.N. during WWI who had his portrait featured on WWI music scores

Musicians

Artists

Authors

Journalists

• Jack Cheevers, journalist who wrote Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
• Gretel C. Kovach, journalist who has received the The Major Megan McClung Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation for her articles on Marines abroad
• Howard Reich (journalist)
• Steve Huntley, journalist

Scientists

• Ian Hurd, assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University
• James Schwoch, Associate Professor at Northwestern University in both the Center for International and Comparative Studies and the Department of Communication Studies

Activists

• Colleen Connell, President of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois
• John Wordin, President & Founder of Ride 2 Recovery

Public servants

• Edward G. Buikema, Regional Director of Region V of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• Harold B. Hinton, former Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs ‎
• Jeffrey Murawsky, current candidate for undersecretary of health at the Department of Veterans of Affairs
• Richard E Friedman, served as the Regional Director (Midwest) for the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and was President and Chair, National Strategy Forum, Inc.
• Cortez Trotter, was Executive Director, Office of Emergency Management and Communications for the city of Chicago

Other

• redlinked names from this list: Early Birds of Aviation
• Clare L. De Ceu, one of The Sacred Twenty (possible, see this journal article, mentions in this book, and this report from the Judge Advocate)
• Estelle Hine, one of The Sacred Twenty. . Some info in this book, and prior service in this book, but more is needed.
• Dann Gire, film critic
• Forrest Bryant Johnson
• Joseph A. Morris, partner in the law firm of Morris & De La Rosa
• Keith Gill (museum curator)
• Michael Wilmington, film critic

Literature

• The Brave Ones by Michael J. MacLeod
• De Bello Belgico aka A History of the Low Countrey Warres by Famiano Strada, a 17th century Italian Jesuit
• A World on Fire, a history of foreign policy during the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman
• The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War, a non-fiction title by Steven Pressfield
• Mortal Threat by A. J. Tata
• Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, a book by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger
• Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, book by James M. McPherson which received the Lincoln Prize
• Generals In Khaki a catalogue of World War I officers by Henry Blaine Davis jr.

Events

• Battle of the Aa, WWI battle
• Battle of the Argesul, WWI battle (currently a redirect)
• Battle of Atlanta American Civil War battle, July 22, 1864
• Battle of Long Neck Pass
• Battle of Gwansan
• Bombardment of Samogneux, WWI offensive
• Soviet occupation of North Korea (currently a redirect)

Ships

• USS Blue Island Victory, (currently a redirect)

Organizations

• Cyber Conflict Studies Association
• Wartime Music Committee, a WWII U.S. govt. agency that coordinated music contracts, publicity, etc.
• Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project
• Ride 2 Recovery

Military formations

• Submarine Development Squadron 12, Groton, CT (DEVRON 12)
• Submarine Squadron 22, La Maddalena, Italy 1972–2008 (known as Submarine Refit and Training Group La Maddalena until the mid-1980s)

See Military history articles needing attention to referencing and citation

Especially into French, Spanish, German, and Russian

Any of the above articles, plus

• Pritzker Military Museum & Library

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Project statistics

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Pritzker Military Library-related articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA		3	10	9		22
FL			1			1
A		1	3	2		6
GA	2	3	18	22		45
B	2	20	82	131		235
C	2	30	116	349		497
Start	2	46	205	1,062		1,315
Stub		4	46	673		723
List		1	5	22	1	29
NA			1	24	50	75
Assessed	8	108	487	2,294	51	2,948
Total	8	108	487	2,294	51	2,948
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 13,702			Ω = 4.82

Events

/Archived outcomes

• Edit-a-thon on 18 April 2015

Articles created

/Archived outcomes

May 2021

• 305th Infantry Regiment (United States)
• Submarine Squadron 19, home port Bangor, WA
• Jane Douglass White, WAAC Special Services officer, composer
• Soldier's shows, WWII theatrical reviews pre-packaged by US Army Special Services entertainment
• Song of the Women's Army Corps, the official marching tune of the corps until dissolution in 1978

December 2021

• Robert Doughty, military historian
• Battle of Sasu

May 2022

• Seymour Furth

August 2022

• Erima Maewa Kaihau

DYKs

/Archived outcomes

Pending DYKs

There are Did You Know nominations pending for:

• Template:Did you know nominations/Jane Douglass White

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  WWI U.S. poster on the protein-related benefits of cottage cheese.
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  Gatlings to the Assault
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  USS Philadelphia in Tripoli
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  It's Up to Us Now!
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  Cadet Nurse Corps Poster

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