World War II: American perspectives

A compilation of online resources available from the Library of Congress and from external websites.

A long bibliography of websites and books, to support the PBS documentary The War. There are a number of links to veterans' organizations at the bottom of the page.

Links to a number of online resources, from the National Archives.

Refseek is a document search engine that locates otherwise hard-to-find websites and documents.

Look here for statistical information about different aspects of the war.

Data about the war in the Pacific, from the National WWII Museum.

A collection of links to primary and secondary sources from Ibiblio.

A comprehensive collection of presidential papers, speeches, executive orders, etc. from President Washington through the current president.

Large collection of documents, images and audio files from the National Archives.

Photos and short video memoirs, from the museum located in New Orleans.

Large index of digitized materials from many collections and institutions.

Memoirs, documents, radio broadcasts, etc. from the US and abroad during World War II.

Primary source documents from the FDR Presidential Library and Museum.

Links to primary source documents from American and Great Britain.

Links to digitized collections of letters and memoirs from American servicemen and servicewomen.

Large collection of historic images, text, sound files and video/film.

Primary sources related to Japanese internment.

The Library of Congress collection of a wide variety of materials related to World War II.

Collection of primary sources related to WWII from the National Archives.

Posters and illustrations from WWII, compiled by the Library of Congress.

A link to the Political Cartoons research guide. Look for cartoons in the relevant time period.

The full text of Franklin D. Roosevelt's April 1942 speech.

Cartoons illustrating issues during WWII and the early Cold War.

Treaties, declarations, words of surrender, etc., organized by year.

A collection of primary sources and lessons to teach analysis of these sources.

Statistical data on the war.

A collection of primary source documents from the Yale University Avalon Project.

Documents from before, during and after World War II. Includes materials from Europe, Asia and the United States.

Immigration data from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Data from the Gilder Lehrman Institute.

Background information and current news about Judaism and Israel.

Use this encyclopedia to find information about Jewish women authors.

Background information about the St. Louis.

Information about the Holocaust from the museum in Washington DC.

Primary and background information.

A collection of primary sources from the National Security Archive.

Large collection of documents related to the Trinity project and later testing of nuclear weapons. Includes government documents, photographs, data charts, and video footage.

Website for the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

US War Department footage of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Overview information from the US Department of State.

An overview of the origination of the UN, with links to important documents.

Educational resources for researching the history of the United Nations, developed by educators at Harvard University.

Audio interviews and transcripts of memoirs important contributors to the work of the UN, including people who attended the 1945 San Francisco Conference.

Links to primary sources, from Yale's Avalon Project.

Political cartoons drawn by Dr. Seuss during World War II.

A collection of WWII poster art from the National Archives.

Images from a Northwestern University collection.

A 2014 Smithsonian Channel television program about the post-war civil rights experiences of African Americans, available through a number of TV and online subscriptions.

Information from the National Women's Memorial.

Images from the National Archives.

Documents and papers about the famed group.

An article from Smithsonian Magazine.

Audio and video interviews of women who participated in four different wars, including WWII.

Describes the roles of nurses serving in combat arenas from Revolutionary times through the Vietnam War.

Read letters written by female US military pilots during WWII.

Describes the roles of women in a variety of military branches.

An article from the National Park Service.

Library of Congress collection of hispanic veterans' narratives.

Historical information from the Army website. Scroll down to WWII.

An article from the Huffington Post with links to data.

This is an archived copy of an online project. Not attractive but the links work.