Resource Guide:
World War II
Digital Open Education Resources
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- National Archives Military Records--World War II
- The Internet Archive--World War II
- National World War II Museum, New Orleans
- WWII Primary Source Documents (Avalon Project, Yale)
- Naval History and Heritage Command
- Manzanar War Relocation Center Photographs
- Pearl Harbor Attack--Official Committee Hearings
- Women and the Home Front During World War II
- Guide to Nazi and East German Propaganda
- Perry-Castañeda Map Collection World War II maps
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- World War, 1939-1945 OR World War (1939-1945) OR World War II OR World War 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal Narratives
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Poetry
- United States -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Sources
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945
- Germany -- History -- 1945-1955
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Journal of Military History
- World War II
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| World War II : the definitive encyclopedia and document collection | D 740 .E516 2016 |
| World War II writings | D 756 .L54 2008 |
| Pearl Harbor : from infamy to greatness | D 767.92 .N46 2016 |
| Pearl Harbor : the essential reference guide | D 767 .92 .P43 2015 |
| Navajo weapon : the Navajo code talkers | D 810. C88 M38 2001 |
| Roi Ottley's World War II : the lost diary of an African American journalist | D 811.5 .O86 2011 |
| Under the gun : West German and Austrian Latter-day Saints in World War II | BX 8693 .M56 2011 |
| Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific war | DS 889.8 .K3959 2015 |
| The war in American culture : society and consciousness during World War II | E 169.1 .W273 1996 |
| FDR's ambassadors and the diplomacy of crisis : from the rise of Hitler to the end of World War II | E 806 .M424 2012 |
| Of war and men : World War II in the lives of fathers and their families | HQ 756 .L375 2011 |
| Making war, making women : femininity and duty on the American home front, 1941-1945 | HQ 1420 .M383 2010 |
| The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum : From Narrative, Memory, and Experience to Experientiality | eBook 2020 |
| Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare | eBook 2018 |
| Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation | eBook 2017 |
| Seeking Peace in the Wake of War : Europe, 1943-1947 | eBook 2016 |
| Soviet Jews in World War II : Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering | eBook 2014 |