Polar Bear Expedition Digital Archival Collection

Resources

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This page provides suggestions about selected additional resources that may be helpful to your research concerning the Polar Bear Expedition. The list of resources below is by no means exhaustive, and aims to provide a starting place for your continued exploration.

Archival and Primary Source Materials:
Bentley Historical Library
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/polaread/

White Chapel Memorial Cemetery WWI Polar Bear Memorial
http://www.whitechapelcemetery.com/memorials.htm

Google News Archive
“Five Michigan Veterans Hunt Bodies of Buddies,” The Tuscaloosa News
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19290910&id=2NA-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=gkwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6271%2C4254486&hl=en 
"Recover Unidentified Bodies of War Dead," Lawrence Journal-World
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19290925&id=In1YAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oEMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1887,5863710 
"Another Polar Bear Body Brought Home," Prescott Evening Courier
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=897&dat=19300319&id=f6lMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fVADAAAAIBAJ&pg=3339,3424925 
The United Press, "American Troopers' Graves Discovered," The Pittsburgh Press
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19340817&id=qSQbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gEsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2795,4188522&hl=en

"Detroit's Own" Polar Bear Memorial Association
Home Page
http://pbma.grobbel.org/​
References and Articles
http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/anref-polar-bears.html​

Selected Academic, Journalistic, and Editorial Materials:
Department of the Army: Army Sustainment Professional Bulletin
The Polar Bear Expedition: The U.S. Intervention in Northern Russia, 1918–1919
http://www.almc.army.mil/alog/issues/MarApril12/Polar_Bear.html

Michigan Technological University's MUHGL Site
“Detroit’s Own Polar Bears” in Northern Russia
http://ss.sites.mtu.edu/mhugl/2016/10/14/detroits-own-polar-bears-in-northern-russia/​

Inquiries Journal
The Polar Bear Expedition of 1918 - 1919: Interpreting Masculinity Through the Eyes of a Soldier 
http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1458/the-polar-bear-expedition-of-1918--1919-interpreting-masculinity-through-the-eyes-of-a-soldier​

YouTube
The Polar Bear Expedition: America's Forgotten Campaign in Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG6SHTVqFyE​
The Polar Bear Expedition
​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsTIuZldb8g