HIST: Modern World History Websites

Subject Guide

Extensive list of primary source documents organized by year, topic and source type.

Search or browse topics alphabetically - extensive and detailed overviews with primary resources and external links.

Site dedicated to covering all areas of WWI - offers a wide range of primary source materials, including pictures, photos, documents, personal narratives and more.

Compilation of all resources available at NARA, in addition to external websites.

Extensive list of primary sources related to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, organized by topic and time period,

Extensive collection of primary sources, including photographs; diaries and letters; documents; testimonies; maps; and images of artifacts and artwork. Part of the larger Yad Vashem website.

Primary source which includes of thousands of eye-witness testimonies from the Holocaust, the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S., and genocides in Rwanda, Armenia, and Latin America.

"After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor presents approximately twelve hours of opinions recorded in the days and months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, from more than two hundred individuals in cities and towns across the United States"

From the NSA - provides overview, as well as introduction and analysis of primary source documents.

"more than 300 World War II-era posters issued by various U.S. government agencies"

Primary source documents, images and audio covering the years 1948-1952.