Internet Sites with Primary Sources for History: World

Searchable database of the collection, University of Michigan Libraries

Searchable database of U.N. treaties. This also includes treaties of the League of Nations.

Pre-TV, people saw the news in movie theaters. Newsreels were released twice a week and shown before every feature film.

Images of manuscripts from various times and places. You usually have to set up a free account in order to view the manuscripts.

Letters from a Western Pennsylvania soldier, plus other documents about his service.

Newspaper from Fort Dix

Letters from Australian soldiers in WWI

A newspaper published on the USS George Washington while sailing to Europe.

Surveys of WWI veterans - includes photos, news clippings, etc.

The Camp Upton (Long Island, NY) version of a newspaper published for soldiers by the National War Work Council of the YMCA

Daily records and comments as appeared in American and international newspapers

Searchable database of questionnaires filled out by WWI veterans.

Includes unit histories, After Action Reports, General Orders, etc.

Includes the full run of the Puka Puka Parade, a newsletter written by the veterans of the 100th Infantry Battalion.

Includes mission reports, photos, etc. Also includes substantial information about POWs.

POW camp in Louisiana

Information and primary sources about women who were steelworkers during WWII

Chaplain of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, an all-Japanese American unit

Newspaper of the Chico Army Air Field, unit of the 21st Bomb Wing

Propaganda films made for the U.S. government

Commemorative booklets issued to soldiers at the end of World War II

Includes resources on the War Relocation Authority internment camps in World War II

An extensive collection of documents

Interviews with Holocaust survivors

Includes his columns from World War II

The newspaper of the Naval Air Station at Pearl Harbor. Includes issues from v.1 (June 2, 1943) - v.6 (June 11, 1948), but some issues are missing.

This camp held Italian men, Japanese resident aliens, German resident aliens, and Japanese Latin and South Americans during World War II.

Digitized documents from World War II and postwar.

Resources about German Americans and Latin Americans who were placed in internment camps by the US government during World War II

"A vast philanthropic initiative to digitise and make searchable almost 20 million records relating to the Holocaust and Nazi persecution was completed this week, with the resulting database made available to use for free."

Documents of the United Nations War Crime Commission.

Includes transcripts from the International Military Tribunal of the Far East (the Tokyo Trials)

A 15 volume set that includes summaries of trials from both Europe and Japan

Court decisions from war crimes trials after the end of World War II

Includes many oral interviews for World War II.

Includes stories from viewers about their experiences in World War II at: http://www.pbs.org/thewar/story_share.htm