Research Guide: History -- World War I & II

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Research Guide --- History --- World War I & II

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America: History and Life -- Index to articles on North American history.

Historical Abstracts -- Index to articles on world history (excluding the US and Canada).

Other Resources:
Readers' Guide Retrospective --- Index to general-interest magazines and journals, 1890-1982.
United States at War --- Covers 14 wars and conflicts, includes primary documents.
Military & Government Collection -- Indexes primary sources, journals, newspapers, books, images and government documents.
Google Images -- especially their LIFE photo archive -- Search millions of photographs from the Life photo archive -- stretching from the 1750's to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of Life and Google.

Find Books:

Library Catalog -- search by subject, keyword, author or title!

Find Background Info:

Tip: use these sources for quick overviews, to develop vocabulary for searching and/or for more sources
Encyclopedia of World War I (Ref D 510 .E53 2005 v.1-5)
Great Events from History
* The 20th Century, 1901 - 1940
* The 20th Century, 1941-1970
(Ref Ref D421 ... )
Oxford Reference Online -- Advanced Search for Military History
Encyclopedias and Reference Databases

Primary Sources:

National Security Archive
The Veterans History Project -- first hand accounts from U.S. Veterans representing World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War and the Afghanistan & Iraq conflicts.
World War I Document Archive -- archive of primary documents from World War One has been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). International in focus, the archive intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers 1900-1910 - & find information about American newspapers 1690-present.
The Nizkor Project and The Trial of German Major War Criminals at Nuremberg, Germany
The World War II Oral History Web Site -- includes stories and interview transcripts from WWII veterans and their wives
American Memory – Library of Congress
In the First Person -- in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world
Rutgers/New Brunswick History Department Oral History Archives -- WWII, Korea & Vietnam
What Did You Do in the War, Grandma? (Brown U./South Kingstown H.S.)

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Updated: 01/19/10
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