History 332 (1941 - 1945)

World War II

Reference (print)  |  Reference (online)  |  Books  |  Magazines and newspapers  | Web sites

Reference (print)

American Decades (1940-1949) – R 973.92 A512
Annals of America – vol. 16 (primary sources) – R 973 A613, 2003
The Biographical Dictionary of World War II – R  940.53092 B662 b
A Dictionary of the Second World War – R  940.5303 W5566 d
The D-Day Encyclopedia – R 940.542142 D111
The FDR Years – R 973.917 P3714 f
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust – vols. 1-4 – R 940.5318 E564
The Harry S. Truman Encyclopedia – R  973.918 H3238
The Historical Dictionary of the 1940s – R 909.824 R9886 h
The Home Front Encyclopedia – vols. 2-3 – R 940.3 H765
The Pacific War Encyclopedia – vols. 1-2 – R 940.54099 D9244 p
World War II – A Statistical Survey – R  940.53 E475 w  

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Reference (online)

American National Biography (also in print)– Portraits of more than 17,400 American men and women.

Facts on File: World News Digest – Key news information (1940 - present) from more than 100 major newspapers, news magazines, and other periodicals from the U.S. and around the world. 

History Database Center – Includes biographies, subject entries, chronologies, primary sources, maps and charts, and images.

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Books/Monographs

The following books are non-reference sources that deal broadly with the subject of United States History 1941 - 1945 (sometimes referred to as overviews):

America 1941: A Nation at the Crossroads – floor 2 – 973.917 G8234 a
From Munich to Pearl Harbor – floor 2 – 973.917 R4627 f
Let the Good Times Roll: Life at Home in America During World War II – floor 2 – 973.917 C3364 l
No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt – floor 2 – 973.917 G6564 n
The United States and World War II – floor 2 – 940.5373 M1796 u
V was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II – floor 2 – 973.917 B658 v

To find other relevant books, do a subject search using specific SUBJECT headings such as:

World War – 1939-1945

You can also put in names of specific people or events in a keyword search. Pay attention as well to other headings given to books you find on your topic. Also browse the shelf area where you find books on your subject.

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Magazines and Newspapers

Below are magazine and newspaper sources that are available in databases online. An asterisk (*) indicates a database containing primary source material.

JSTOR – Full text of more than 750 journals.

* The Nation Archive – The Nation magazine, 1865 on.

* ProQuest Historical Newspapers – Search the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Daily World, Pittsburgh Courier, and Chicago Defender.

* Reader's Guide Retrospective – Indexing only (no full text) for 370 magazines, 1890-1982.

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Web Sites

The websites selected here are reliable, relevant sources for researching the subject of United States History 1941 - 1945 and related subjects.  An asterisk (*) indicates a site containing primary source material.

* The Avalon Project: World War II – The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy offers a varied array of primary source documents on World War II as part of its major collections.

* The Institute on World War II and the Human Experience – Florida State University – focuses on preserving donated memories and artifacts of men and women who served in World War II and the experiences of civilians on the home front.

* The Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II – Oral histories taken from Rutgers University graduates who served in World War II.

*The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history.

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