Presidential Libraries with Primary Source Collections:
Presidential Libraries offer perspectives on history and the Presidency including many primary sources.
National Museum of American History
National Women's History Museum
National Museum of African American History
iWitness Videos (first person stories from survivors of war, Holocaust, Armenian, Cambodian, Rwanda, Nanjing)
Spotlight on a Primary Source
D-Day correspondence b/t a soldier and his wife, 1944
Videos
Inside the Vault: D-Day in Maps and Letters from Soldiers and Families
Books
"Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad"
"The Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe"
"Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War against Nazi Germany"
Essays
D-Day or Operation Overlord, June 6, 1944
Glory on D-Day: African American Heroism on the Beaches of Normandy
Race and the Good War: An Oral History Interview with Calvin D. Cosby, World War II Veteran
History Now issues
World War II (Issue 14, Winter 2007)
World War II: Portraits of Service (Issue 70, Spring 2024)
Veterans Legacy Program
Since 2021, we've partnered with the VLP to provide resources commemorating our nation's veterans. Visit our D-Day page for information about our VLP-sponsored World War II Veteran Research Guide, lesson plans, World War II student contest, and moreHathiTrust Digital Library (books/journals)
The Gilder Lehrman Institute (search by time period)
Visual History Archive (video testimonies of survivors/witnesses of genocide and crimes against humanity)
Gutenberg.org (over 70,000 free books!)
Spartacus Educational (Global archive)
DocsTeach from the National Archives (teaching docs)
Pratt Free Library (library with links to materials)
British History Online (British, Irish, British Empire related)
Europeana (European art, books, film, music)