Library Research Guides: HIST 302: World War II as Memory & Myth: Primary Sources

EuroDocs
Rich array of digitized material organized by country, then chronologically
Archives Direct
The collection of foreign office files and confidential print files for various world regions on trade, treaties, and diplomacy from the perspective of the British government.
Wilson Center Digital Archive
Declassified foreign government documents on 20th century international relations & diplomacy
American Memory
Fantastic collection of material digitized by the Library of Congress; freely available on the Web. Posters, sheet music, ads, newsclippings, and much more.
Arolsen Archives
Thousands of documents divided by type and location detailing National Socialist persecution and the Holocaust.
Nuremberg Trials Project
Harvard University Law School Library's digital collection
Oral Histories of Holocaust Survivors
includes survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto
Video Testimonies of Survivors - UCLA
Gallica
The digital presence of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. It contains millions of digitized newspapers, magazines, images, and sound recordings relating to France and French history and culture.
Densho Digital Repository
Historic photographs, documents, newspapers, letters etc. that tell the story of the Japanese American community, from immigration to the WWII incarceration and its aftermath.
Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study Digital Archive
The archive reproduces a research project initiated in 1942 at UC-Berkeley, which documented & examined the mass internment of Japanese Americans by embedding Nisei social science students recruited from the Berkeley campus into selected internment sites.
Civil Rights Digital Library
TV news broadcasts & many other primary sources, 1954-1964, from the University of Georgia.

Race Relations in America
A primary source archive of photographs, sound recordings, transcripts, interviews, administrative reports, and statistics on topics such as housing, employment, the labor movement, school desegregation and church integration.
Dates: 1943-1970 CE

Center for Jewish History
A major research center for Jewish history, CJH has gathered electronic resources.
Yad Vashem
World center for holocaust research, education & commemoration.
Blavatnik Archive
"The Blavatnik Archive is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to preserving and disseminating primary source materials that contribute to the study of 20th century Jewish and world history, with a special emphasis on World War I, World War II, and Soviet Russia...includes photographs, diaries, letters, postcards, video testimonies and more."

Hoover Institution Political Poster Collection
Over 30,000 political and cultural posters primarily from the mid-20th century, including 6,000 British posters.
Propaganda Poster Collection
Use date limits to limit to WWII.
Library of Congress Newspaper Image Search
A new tool from LoC lets you search for images by keyword - 1900-1963.
EUscreen
European TV and audio broadcasts, 1900-present
World Newsreels online, 1929-1966
Includes Universal Newsreels, Universal Studios, Les Actualites Francaises, Nippon News and The March of Time. Produced from 1929 through the early post-war period.
British Pathe Films
Newsreel films on politics, sport, popular culture, foreign culture, and more.
Hoover Institution Cold War Sources
Over 5600 primary sources on the Cold War like radio broadcasts, photos, speeches, and more.
AAPB: American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Archive of the most significant public television & radio programs of the past 60 years.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Enormous historical map collection searchable by keyword, geographic area, subject, and time period.
Cartoon Drawings from the Library of Congress
Offers more than 9,000 original drawings for editorial cartoons, caricatures, and comic strips spanning the late 1700s to the present, primarily from 1880 to 1980. The cartoons cover people and events throughout the world, but most of the images were intended for publication in American newspapers and magazines.
Library of Congress: Manzanar Internment Camp Photographs
Ansel Adams' 1943 photographs of internment camp Manzanar in California.
DEFA Film Library
The DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, founded by Professor Barton Byg in 1993, is the only archive and research center outside of Germany devoted to a broad spectrum of filmmaking from and related to the former GDR.

Films are not available to watch online, but you can use this as an index to learn the titles of films for research.

New York Times, 1851-2020
All articles published since the first issue of the paper in 1851 available in full text and with all page images. Includes editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, photos, and advertisements.
Dates: 1851-2020 CE
Times Digital Archive, 1785-2014
Full text news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, historical photos, reviews, and advertisements from a premier British newspaper.
Dates: 1785-2014 CE
Guardian and the Observer (UK), 1791-2003
Full-text archive of two British newspapers, covering all aspects of British and world news.
Dates: 1791-2003 CE
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
Broadcasts, news agency transmissions, and government statements from around the globe translated into English, 1941-1996. Particularly strong in Soviet satellite states.
Current Digest of the Russian Press
A full-text primary source archive consisting of English translations of important Russian newspaper and magazine articles. Updated weekly.
Dates: 1949 CE-Present
Service Newspapers of World War Two
Newspapers from military members and outposts across the globe (with an emphasis on the UK and US). Half the newspapers are from the European theatre and a quarter from Asia and the Pacific.
Dates: 1936-1948 CE

BBC Monitoring: International Reports
Foreign media in translation.
Library of Congress: Japanese Internment Camp Newspapers
Thousands of page from 29 newspaper titles published in internment camps.

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
Full-text of 282 Black American newspapers.
Dates: 1827-1998 CE
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995
Full text of more than 170 wide-ranging publications by and about African Americans, including academic journals, magazines, newsletters, reports, and other genres.
Dates: 1825-1997 CE

U.S. National WWII Memorial
Normandy American Cemetery & Memorial
National Park Service: Japanese Internment
The NPS site on internment, with contextual and visiting information.
UK War Memorials Register