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Paul Barron - Director of Library and Archives (540-463-7103 ext 129)
Jeffrey Kozak - Archivist and Assistant Librarian (540-463-7103 ext 122)

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Research Library Collection Guides

 The research library's main holding is the George C. Marshall papers. In addition, there are more than 300 other collections ranging from a single folder such as a diary kept by a prisoner-of-war during the Battle of the Bulge to multi-folder divisional histories and newsletters.

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Digital Library Holdings

Search the digital copies of Congressional Testimonies (1947-1950),

George C. Marshall: Interviews and Reminiscences for Forrest C. Pogue  (Transcriptions and notes of interviews of General Marshall with his official biographer), The Papers of George Catlett Marshall Papers (Volumes 1-5), and

Pogue’s George C. Marshall biographies (Volumes 1-4).

THE MISSION OF THE George C. Marshall Research Library is to collect, preserve, and make available to scholars a documented record of the life and public service career of George Catlett Marshall. That mission includes a variety of military and diplomatic history issues between the years 1900 and 1960. Many of Marshall's contemporaries have donated their documents in support of the library's mission.

We are deeply grateful for significant and ongoing funding from NHPRC (National Historic Publications and Records Commission) and NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities).   

                                         

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Overview of Research Library Holdings

AUDIO

The Library holds a collection of recorded Marshall interviews conducted by Forrest C. Pogue. This includes the original recording of the Marshall Plan Speech made at the Harvard Commencement on June 5, 1947.

DOCUMENTS
Selected documents from the library’s extensive collection covering the military and diplomatic history of the United States during George C. Marshall’s career from 1900 to 1960.

• Of particular interest to researchers is the Marshall Foundation National Archives Project.  This collection contains almost 1 million pages of copied material in paper and microfim format from the National Archives and augments the George C. Marshall personal papers.
  

FILMS

The George C Marshall Film Library. A guide to George C. Marshall motion pictures which includes reference videotapes housed at the George C. Marshall Research Library in Lexington, Virginia and other repositories.

MAPS
The library contains over 2,000 maps from World Wars I and II. The collection includes maps from the trenches of World War I, maps documenting the daily progress made during the battles of World War II, and maps from the French and German forces during both wars.

MICROFILM

The library’s holdings include approximately 750 reels of microfilm. The contents can be previewed in this two-volume PDF directory:

• Microfilm Index Volume 1 (7.9MB PDF, 177 pages)
• Microfilm Index Volume 2 (3.4 MB PDF, 116 pages)

ONLINE VIDEOS

• General George C. Marshall: Soldier and Statesman - Story of the soldier/statesman General George C. Marshall who shaped the world we live in today (16 min.)
• George C. Marshall: Legacy of Leadership - Examines key moments in Marshall's life to illuminate Marshall's leadership qualities of candor, commitment, courage, integrity, and selflessness (30 min.)
• George Marshall and the American Century - Emmy award-winning documentary that feature historical footage and recordings of Marshall and Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, as well as interviews with General Matthew B. Ridgway, journalist Eric Sevareid, former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford and many others (88 min.)
• The General Marshall Story - The story of citizen-soldier General George C. Marshall as told on the U. S. Army's "THE BIG PICTURE" and narrated by Walter Cronkite (28 min.)
• Marshall Plan Speech AV Presentation - Audio visual presentation of Marshall's speech about the Marshall plan at Harvard University in 1947 (12 min.)
• Remembering George C. Marshall: A Conversation with Merrill Pasco - Interview by Dr Charles W Sydnor, Jr. with H. Merrill Pasco, who served as General Marshall's staff secretary for the duration of World War II (56 minutes).
  

ORAL HISTORIES
The oral history collection contains taped interviews with more than 300 of General Marshall's associates conducted by Dr. Forrest Pogue.  This collection also contains notes made by Dr. Pogue during these interviews.

In addition to these interviews, the oral history collection also includes:

• Taped interviews of General Marshall by Marshall's biographer, Dr. Forrest C. Pogue.  The "interviews" are primarily General Marshall's dictation of answers to written questions submitted to him by Dr. Pogue.
  
• Six interviews conducted with General Marshall between 1947-1955
  
•  Most of the raw tapes of the BBC production of "Spark to Fire the Engines"

PHOTOGRAPHS
The library has an extensive collection of Office of War Information, U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps, and U.S. Army Signal Corps photographs taken throughout George C. Marshall's career. Included in this collection are photographic documentations of WAC activities, prisoner of war camps, soldiers in uniform, the perils of World War II training, and portraits of officers.   

POSTERS
There are over 800 posters from World Wars I and II in the library's holdings. Collections from France, Germany, Canada, Great Britain, Russia, Poland, and the United States are included, specifically a German propaganda poster collection donated by Forrest C. Pogue.

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