US2: WORLD WAR II (1939-1945)
Guide to Primary and Secondary Sources
University of Washington Libraries: A guide to primary and secondary sources:
The Roosevelts
FDR Library YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/FDRLibrary/videos
FDR Presidential Library and Museum (primary source): https://fdrlibrary.org/
Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project (primary source): https://erpapers.columbian.gwu.edu/
General Resources
National World War II Museum: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/
Library of Congress World War II Resources (primary source): https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/WW2/WW2bib.html
World War II (Well-organized, brief information): http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/
Home Front, 1939-1945 (Daily life in the United Kingdom from the UK National Archives):
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/homefront/default.htm
World War II Documents from the Avalon Project, Yale Law School (primary source):
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/wwii.asp
Posters
World War Poster Collection (both WW I and WW II) (primary source): https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/wwpc/browse/
World War II Poster Collection from Northwestern University (primary source): https://dc.library.northwestern.edu/collections/faf4f60e-78e0-4fbf-96ce-4ca8b4df597a
The Home Front
The WWII Home Front: https://www.nps.gov/articles/the-wwii-home-front.htm
The Home Front: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/home-front
From the Home Front and Front Lines: https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/homefront/
World War II: Homefront: https://iowaculture.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/world-war-ii-homefront
The perilous fight: The Home Front: https://www.pbs.org/perilousfight/home_front/
The Holocaust
Introduction to the Holocaust: https://www.ushmm.org/learn/introduction-to-the-holocaust/path-to-nazi-genocide/the-path-to-nazi-genocide/full-film
Holocaust Encyclopedia: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/en
Oral Histories (primary source): https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/search?query=oral+histories&languages%5B%5D=en
Japanese Internment
Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution: https://amhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/overview.html
Japanese American Archival Collection: Photographs and images. (primary source): https://csus.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/jaac/search
Japanese-American Relocation (article): https://www.nps.gov/articles/historyinternment.htm
Atomic Bomb
George Washington University: The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II (primary source): https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2020-08-04/atomic-bomb-end-world-war-ii
The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb (primary source): https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/online-collections/decision-to-drop-atomic-bomb
Audiovisual Resources
World War II Photos: National Archives (primary source):
https://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/photos
Life Photo Archive: Organized by decade. Useful for the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. (primary source):
http://images.google.com/hosted/life
World War II Era Audio Recordings (primary source): https://archive.org/details/wwIIarchive-audio
Recorded Speeches of FDR, 1920-1945, containing 30 "Fireside Chats." (primary source): http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/utterancesfdr.html
National Archives: United News newsreel footage (primary source): https://catalog.archives.gov/search?q=*:*&f.parentNaId=38905&f.level=item&sort=naIdSort%20asc&tabType=online
World War II films from Ball State University Digital Media Repository (primary source): http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm/search/collection/WWIIHstFlm
PBS: Secret Weapon That Won World War II (airborne radar): https://www.pbs.org/video/the-secret-weapon-that-won-wwii-fiyqnl/
PBS: Wisconsin World War II Stories-Part 1: Europe: https://www.pbs.org/video/wisconsin-war-stories-wisconsin-world-war-ii-stories-part-1-europe/
PBS: Wisconsin World War II Stories-Part 2: Home Front: https://www.pbs.org/video/wisconsin-war-stories-wisconsin-world-war-ii-stories-part-2-home-front/
PBS: Wisconsin World War II Stories-Part 3: Pacific: https://www.pbs.org/video/wisconsin-war-stories-wisconsin-world-war-ii-stories-part-3-pacific/
PBS: Wisconsin World War II Stories-Part 4: Struggle: https://www.pbs.org/video/wisconsin-war-stories-wisconsin-world-war-ii-stories-part-4-struggle/
PBS: Wisconsin World War II Stories-Part 5: Legacy: https://www.pbs.org/video/wisconsin-war-stories-wisconsin-world-war-ii-stories-part-5-legacy/
List of PBS videos about Word War II: https://www.pbs.org/search/?q=world+war+II