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Uncover the stories of American military personnel and civilians during the Second World War through their oral histories, correspondence, diaries, photographs, artifacts, and military records. This digital resource offers an insight into the personal experiences of those involved in the conflict, both on the United States home front and on deployment overseas in Europe, the Mediterranean, the Pacific, China, Burma and India.

The First World War portal makes available invaluable primary sources for the study of the Great War, brought together in four thematic modules. From personal collections and rare printed material to military files, artwork and audio-visual files, content highlights the experiences of soldiers, civilians and governments on both sides of a conflict that shook the world. Personal Experiences Propaganda and Recruitment Visual Perspectives and Narratives A Global Conflict

Gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale.

Explore multiple perspectives on the history of injury, treatment and disease on the front line. Chart scientific advances through hospital records, medical reports and first-hand accounts, and discover the evidence of how war shaped medical practice across the centuries.

Major campaigns for equal access to education, voting, employment, housing and the military are covered in this module. The education files in this module document the NAACPs systematic assault on segregated education that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Files from 1955-1965 focus on the NAACPs efforts to implement the Brown decision as well as to combat de facto segregation outside of the South.

PILOTS, the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its provides citations and abstracts to the international literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.

This database is based on a bibliography by Joseph Sabin and contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. The collection includes books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. The collection is updated regularly and currently contains over 9 million pages from more than 35 thousand titles.

The U.S. Congressional Documents Collection provides access to a large collection of information and documents related to the United States Congress. Records of debates, proceedings, speeches, treaties, and more are included. Each record is available as a full-text, searchable PDF, and the collection is updated frequently with new information.