About the Center

"The Korean War Veterans and those who died in Korea will be honored in the years to come through the Center's archives and public awareness projects."
Dr. Paul M. Edwards

The Center is now in its 18th year as a Missouri non-profit library and archives. The next few years will be highly significant as materials of the Korean War face the risk of disappearance. As veterans pass away, family members are left to decided what will happen to the documents and artifacts of the veteran's Korean War experience. If you have materials from your experience please consider discussing with your family what you would like to have done with them. The Center for the Study of the Korean War is a place of preservation.

In the mid-1980s, Dr. Paul M. Edwards, a Korean War veteran, began to write about the war and found there were few reliable sources. He began collecting materials, including his letters home during the war to his wife Carolynn. In 1987 he established the Center for the Study of the Korean War. The Korean War history is being saved by this collection of primary source documents and artifacts.

The Center

Mission Statement:

To develop insights into the causes and costs of the Korean War and war in general, in order to understand and promote peace.

Goals:

To identify, collect, preserve, display and make available archives, books, and artifacts of the Korean War. To acknowledge the contribution of Korean War veterans, and the war's significance in American and world history. To prompt scholarly and popular inquiry into the Korean War, why it was fought and what can be learned from it.

Today:

The Center is nationally recognized as the definitive Korean War archive – specializing in preservation and documentation, providing primary-source information as well as current research topics for today’s military leaders, scholars, students, and the general public.