RESEARCH
Online Archives for Primary Source Research
Miscellaneous Archives
- Imperial War Museum Collections
- British Library Digital Collections
- EuroDocs
- European History Databases at Yale
Film Archives
Major News Archives
- Wikipedia List of Online News Archives
- WorldPressReview
- Project Gutenberg (Online Book Catalog)
- Hathi Trust Digital Archive
- Gale News Vault (cross-search Gale news databases, from Ohiolink)
- British Library Newspapers (Gale database, from Ohiolink)
- Artemis Primary Sources (Gale database, from Ohiolink)
- Full listing of Gale databases
- Proquest News and Newspapers (cross-search Proquest news databases, from Ohiolink)
- NewsBank (from COW database)
- Newspaper Source (EBSCOhost) (1995 – present)
- Historical Newspapers
- Google News Archive
- Global Newsstream (ProQuest, from COW database): the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, news wires, and news sites
- World News Connection (Eastview) (from COW database): news from around the world, translated into English, obtained from newspaper articles, television and radio broadcasts, online sources, conference proceedings, periodicals, and non-classified reports
- The European Library (Newspapers)
Other News Archives
- Harper’s Weekly
- New York Times Archive (1851-1980)
- London Times Digital Archive (1785-)
- Guardian (UK)
- The Economist
- The Sunday Times (London) (Gale) (1822 – 2006)
- Times of India (1838-2007) (Proquest, from Ohiolink)
Foreign Language Archives
- Gallica Digital Library (at the French National Library)
- Petit Journal Illustré Online (1890-1930) (select year on left under les journaux, année)
- Le Monde (Paris, France, since 1987)
- Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (at the Spanish National Library)
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Archiv (Frankfurt, Germany, since 1993)
- taz – die tageszeitung (Berlin, Germany, since 1986)
- El Pais (Madrid, Spain, since 1976)
Photographs and Art
Databases for Secondary Source Research (mostly COW databases)
FILM
Documentaries
- The Sorrow and the Pity: Chronicle of a French Town during Occupation (1969) (French film)
- The World at War (1973) (British film) (WW 2)
- The Spanish Civil War (1983) (British film)
- The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1996) (British film)
- George Orwell: A Life in Pictures (2003) (British film)
- Apocalypse: The Second World War (2009) (French film)
Historical Feature Films
- J’accuse (1919) (French film about WW1; see Jay Winter’s discussion)
- Battleship Potemkin (1925) (Russian film about Potemkin sailor rebellion)
- The Jazz Singer (1927) (American film, first “talkie”)
- Triumph of the Will (1935) (Nazi propaganda film)
- La Grande Illusion (1937) (French pacifist film)
- In Which We Serve (1942) (British propaganda film)
- This Happy Breed (1944) (British propaganda film)
Historical Fiction Feature Films (just for fun)
- The Pianist (2002) (About the dissolution of the Warsaw Ghetto)
- Joyeux Noël (2006) (French film about Christmas truce during WW1)
- Sarah’s Key (2010) (About French Vel’d’Hiv Roundup in 1942)
- Testament of Youth (2014) (Based on Vera Brittain’s memoir, her experience of WW1)
- The Imitation Game (2014) (About code-breaking in WW2)
- Suite Française (2014) (About French woman during German occupation)
- Darkest Hour (2017) (About Churchill and Britain’s WW2)
ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
- The Caen Memorial: The Second World War (Normandy war museum) (virtual exhibit about WW2: the road to war, resistance movements across Europe, genocide, German occupation of France)
- Voices of the First World War (Imperial War Museum in London) (narrative history of First World War told in episodes, link to episode 1)
- Women in the First World War (Imperial War Museum) (virtual exhibit of five British women’s involvement in the war)
- Daily Life in the Warsaw Ghetto (Imperial War Museum)
- Museum of the Second World War: Virtual Walk (Museum in Poland) (virtual tour of former military transport depot)
- Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration and Complicity in the Holocaust (The United States Holocaust Memorial in DC) (virtual exhibit about European collaboration with Nazis)
- State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda (The United States Holocaust Memorial)