• Post World War I Document Archive from the WWI Archive

World War I

• WWI Archive Document archive with links to photographs of The Great War
• The Great War page Chronology, pictures, quotes, poetry, information about World War I. Part of the History Ring.
• Links to multiple "Great War" World War I sites with information about battles, soldiers, participants, etc. Links gathered by TeacherNet of AOL.
• Anzac World War I, Australian forces

World War II

• World War II
• World War II Documents Archive from Avalon Project of Yale University.
• Debate archives and records about whether or not to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. Many documents from the Truman Presidential Library.
• Anzac World War II, 1939-1945 and Australian forces
• Poster Art from World War II: Powers of Persuasion "Guns, tanks, and bombs were the principal weapons of World War II, but there were other, more subtle, forms of warfare as well. Words, posters, and films waged a constant battle for the hearts and minds of the American citizenry just as surely as military weapons engaged the enemy."
• Last Expressions: Art from Auschwitz
  The Block Museum at Northwestern University features the art created by prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau during their incarceration during the Holocaust. Art browsable by media, artist, or location. Biographies of the artists explain how they came to create the artwork. Includes a tour of the site.
• Holocaust Cybrary art, discussions, poems, images, photographs, maps, and history about the Holocaust, the camps, and victims.

World War resource page

Holocaust

• Telling their Stories: Interviews with Holocaust survivors and liberators. Site developed by students of the Urban School of San Francisco.
• Simon Wiesenthal Center center contains information about the holocaust. Includes a multi-media learning center, a museum of tolerance, teacher and other resources.
• Holocaust Museum
• Cybrary of the Holocaust Includes Section of stories by witnesses, both survivors and liberators. Images, photographs, discussions, history and education also found at this site.
• Children of Survivors of the Holocaust
• Holocaust History Project Includes essays, documents, and reproductions of official reports. One unique item is a report on the Chemistry of Auschwitz.
• Nuremberg War Crimes Trials documents from the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School.

Japanese Internment

• Manzanar relocation camp information; Map of camp
• Manzanar: America's Concentration Camp (part of Remembering Manzanar)
• Remembering Manzanar -- created by faculty of Liverpool (New York) Middle School
• Camps other than Manzanar of the Japanese American Internment
• Links to articles, exhibits and other things conencted with Japanese American Internment
• Fort Missoula, Montana, one of the internment camps
• A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution Smithsonian site investigates the balance between human rights and need for national security. Site explores Japanese-AmericanImmigration, Removal, Internment, Loyalty, Service and Justice. Site includes multimedia and activities.
• Japanese Internment in Canada background and bibliography of books from the University of Washington. (Kogawa's Obasan is a story of a Canadian family interned.)

China

• China: 50 Years of Communism New York Timesweb special includes timeline, slide shows, news articles, history. Requires sign-in and password to New York Times

Important People of the 20th century

• Search for biographies and information about World individuals using Biography Resource Center.
• Search for biographies and information about Americans using the American National Biography database.

  Winston Churchill Home Page

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal

• Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum. 10,000+ digitized documents. Special sections on Special relationship between FDR and Churchill, German Diplomatic files, Vatican connection, and more
• The New Deal Network
• The Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill
• New Deal for the Arts an extensive exhibit from the National Archives

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  Harry S. Truman

• Harry S. Truman Library and Museum includes chronologies, documents, photographs, Korean War official documents, and more.
• POTUS resource about Harry S. Truman. Includes facts about Presidency, biography, documents, speeches, cabinet and more.
• Archive of documents from the decision to drop the atomic bomb from Project Whistlestop.

Additional Resources

• American Memory Collections of the Library of Congress Contains million+ searchable primary source items: documents, photographs, prints, sound recordings, films, and maps.
• Internet Public Library Many primary resources.
• The Grandparent Project: uses interviews and primary sources as part of a history curriculum that culminates in a history research paper.

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Created by Carolyn Karis December 2001
Last update 25 January 2007.