Primary Sources - World History Digital Collections

Full-text reproductions and commentary on the four historic letters from Einstein to President Roosevelt between 1939 and 1945 that helped launch U.S. nuclear research.

More than 140,000 searchable Canadian wartime newspaper clippings covering editorials, news stories, and public sentiment during the conflict.

English translations of primary texts alongside images from 1500 to the present, arranged in ten chronological sections with scholarly introductions, maps, and some audiovisual sources.

More than 300 U S Government Printing Office pamphlets, posters, guides, and reports on home front and wartime topics.

Provides translated primary source records, letters, and government documents from the Holocaust era.

Extensive English translations and reproductions of Nazi and East German propaganda—including speeches, articles, posters, and guidance materials.

Thousands of pages of transcripts, reports, and exhibits from investigations into the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Gathers primary source databases and digital collections for military studies, including digitized newspapers, government records, personal narratives, and archival repositories.

Find first person accounts of U.S. military service, including oral histories, letters, diaries, photographs, and published materials.

Oral histories documenting Rhode Island women's experiences during World War II, with interviews, photos, and topical essays.

Yale’s Avalon Project full text of World War II era treaties, agreements, charters, speeches, and trial documents.

More than 300 World War II posters issued by U.S. government agencies between 1941 and 1945 that promoted war bonds, conservation, and home front efforts.

Personal stories, photos, and memories of World War II collected from people across the UK.

English translations of primary texts alongside images from 1500 to the present, arranged in ten chronological sections with scholarly introductions, maps, and some audiovisual sources.

The complete seventy one week World War I run of The Stars and Stripes, the American Expeditionary Forces newspaper published in France from February 8, 1918 to June 13, 1919.

Find first person accounts of U.S. military service, including oral histories, letters, diaries, photographs, and published materials.

A fully digitized 400 volume set of World War I era newspaper clippings with articles editorials features and cartoons.

The World War I Document Archive contains treaties, official papers, diaries, and personal accounts from the war.

Explore more than 500 World War I postcards from UNC’s Bowman Gray Collection, browsable by subject, name, and place