Internet Resources by Subject: Historical Events

"Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, is the ultimate source for Holocaust education, documentation and research. From the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem's integrated approach incorporates meaningful educational initiatives, groundbreaking research and inspirational exhibits."

This project by a group of librarians, scholars and University of Nebraska Press staff provides online access to the Nebraska edition of the Lewis and Clark journals, edited by Gary E. Moulton. Users can search the journals or read them by date. Additional links to sites about Lewis and Clark are also provided.

Access first hand accounts from U.S. war vetrans. It currently covers the following: WWI (1914-1920), WWII (1939-1946), Korean War (1950-1955), Vietnam War (1961-1975), Persian Gulf War (1990-1995), Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts (2001-). Accounts are also provided by U.S. civilians who participated in the war effort (USO workers, war industry workers, etc.)

"This database contains leaflets and newspapers that were distributed on the University of Washington campus during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. They reflect the social environment and political activities of the youth movement in Seattle during that period"

An archive of primary sources from World War I gathered by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). "The archive is international in focus and intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War. " Documents can be searched by keyword or browsed. Includes links to other WWI related sites.

Primary source documents relating to World War II and to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Hosted by the ibiblio website, "a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill."