It has expanded its role in the areas of military history education, the management of the army's museum system, and the introduction of automated data-retrieval systems. Since its formation, the center has provided historical support to the Army Secretariat and Staff, contributing background information for decision making, staff actions, command information programs, and public statements by army officials.
These works are supplemented by monographs and other publications on a mix of topics. Since then, the center has produced detailed series on the Army's role in the Korean and Vietnam Wars and has begun a series on the U.S. Working under the direction of former Nazi General Franz Halder, the center's German section became pivotal in the dissemination of the Myth of the clean Wehrmacht in the United States. They began publication of the United States Army in World War II series, which numbers 78 volumes, in 1946.
The modern organization of the army's historical efforts dates from the creation of the General Staff historical branch in July 1943 and the subsequent gathering of a team of historians, translators, editors, and cartographers to record the official history of World War II. A similar work on World War I was prepared by the Historical Section of the Army War College. The center traces its lineage back to historians under the Secretary of War who compiled the Official Records of the Rebellion, an extensive history of the American Civil War begun in 1874.
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