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Online Resources

Please note that these resources are intended as supplementary and although we encourage students to explore them you are not required to do so.

General Resources

The following under this heading are non-specific resources which you may find useful in the course of your studies. Included are guidelines and instructions for the development of writing and critical research skills along with sites that are potentially useful for locating source material on the history of World War II.

Writing Scholarly Essays
This is an updated version of the text, by the same name, which appears in your student manual.

The World at War
Thames Television Series. Copyright 2000-Fremantle Media International-All Rights Reserved. Retrieved Feb 21, 2005.

Athabasca University Library Help Centre

Center for History and New Media
Retrieved Jan, 2005 from George Mason University © 1996–2005, Center for History and New Media. Retrieved Feb 21, 2005. The World History Matters Project contains an excellent Introductory Essay by Deborah Vess which presents some of the problems and pitfalls involved with the proliferation of primary sources on the Internet. Another article by Kelly Schrum, Surfing for the Past: How to Separate the Good from the Bad, touches briefly on the importance of evaluating web sites when conducting research on the Internet.

History Matters
A project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning (City University of New York, Graduate Center) and the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University). Copyright 1998-2002 American Social History Productions, Inc. All rights reserved. Retrieved Feb 21, 2005.

Athabasca University's Thomas A. Edge Archives & Special Collections: Archival Resources on the Internet

Canadian Archival Resources on the Internet
University of Saskatchewan Archives. Retrieved Feb 21, 2005.

History Online
Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved Jan, 2005.

America: History and Life
University of Saskatchewan. © 2005 by ABC-Clio Inc. All rights reserved. Retrieved Feb 21, 2005.

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Academic Sites

These academic sites include additional research tools as well as World War II based projects and links that are worth exploring.

Simon Fraser University Distance Education: World War II
Simon Fraser University Library. Retrieved March 2, 2005.

Department of History: Research Tools
University of Manitoba. Retrieved Feb 21, 2005.

World War II Web Resources
Department of History: University of North Texas. Retrieved Feb 15, 2005.

Department of History Writing Centre
Copyright, The University of British Columbia. Retrieved Feb 21, 2005.

Voices of World War II: Experiences From the Front and at Home
The University of Missouri-Kansas City. © 2001-2004 UMKC University Libraries. Retrieved Jan, 2005.

Organized Research Units
Department of History, Carlton University. Retrieved Feb 21, 2005.

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Timelines

World War II Timeline
Schooner, Steve, The University of San Diego. Retrieved Jan, 2005. This site also contains links to maps, pictures, and documents on World War II.

Maps

World War II Maps
The University of Texas, Austin. Retrieved Jan, 2005.

World War II map: European Theater
USM at West point. Retrieved Jan, 2005.

World War II maps: Asian/Pacific Theater
USM at West point. Retrieved Jan, 2005.

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Museums and Memorials

Canadian War Museum
Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation. Retrieved Jan, 2005.

War Museums in Europe
Last update: November 7, 2004. Retrieved Jan, 2005.

Central Armed Forces Museum
Moscow, Russia. Retrieved Feb 20, 2005.

Imperial War Museum
Retrieved Jan, 2005.

Yad Vashem Museum
Copyright © 2004 Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority. Retrieved Jan, 2005.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Retrieved Jan, 2005.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Copyright © 2000 Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Retrieved Feb, 2005.

Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
Copyright © 1995 Nagasaki city . All Rights Reserved. Retrieved Feb, 2005.

Australian War Memorial: Australia Under Attack 1942-43
Retrieved Jan, 2005.

The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
The Truman Presidential Museum and Library. Retrieved Jan, 2005.

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Databases and Gateways

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: World War II History, 1939-1945
Kansas Heritage Group. Retrieved Jan, 2005.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: War, Conflict, and Progress
© Paul Halsall, ed. January 1997-January 1999. Retrieved Jan, 2005.

History in Focus: War
Created June 2004 by the Institute of Historical Research. Copyright notice. Retrieved March, 2005.

The Avalon Project: World War II Documents
© 1996-2003 The Avalon Project at Yale Law School. The Lillian Goldman Law Library in Memory of Sol Goldman. Retrieved Feb 15, 2005.

Historic Government Publications from World War II: A Digital Library
Southern Methodist University. Retrieved Feb 20, 2005.

1939-1945: A Soldier's War
CBC Archives. Copyright © CBC 2005 All Rights Reserved. Retrieved Feb 15, 2005.

The Valour and the Horror: Canada at War
Retrieved Feb 21, 2005.

BBC History: World War II
Retrieved Feb 15, 2005.

The Juno Beach Center: Canada in WWII
© Copyright Digital Wizards (Ontario) Inc. / Juno Beach Centre 2003. Retrieved Feb 15, 2005.

The Churchill Centre
Retrieved Feb 15, 2005.

Veterans Affairs Canada: The Second World War
Retrieved Feb, 2005.

Royal Air Force History
© Crown Copyright 2003 and © Deltaweb International Ltd 2003. Retrieved Feb 15, 2005.

Canadian Military History Gateway
Department of National Defence. Retrieved Feb 15, 2005.

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Special Topics

History in Focus: The Holocaust
Created June 2004 by the Institute of Historical Research. Copyright notice. Retrieved March, 2005.

The Nizkor Project: Holocaust Web Project
Retrieved Feb 20, 2005.

Normandy: 1944
Copyright © 1998-1999 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Retrieved Feb 15, 2005.

National Film Board of Canada: D-Day
Canadian Military History Gateway. Retrieved Feb 15, 2005.

Through a Lens: Dieppe in Photography and Film
Libraries and Archives Canada. Retrieved Feb 21, 2005.

National Geographic Magazine: Untold Stories of D-Day
By Thomas B. Allen © 2002 National Geographic Society. All rights reserved. Retrieved Feb 20, 2005.

Essential Pearl Harbor
Osprey Publishing. Retrieved Feb 15, 2005.

National Geographic: Remembering Pearl Harbor
© 2001 National Geographic Society. All rights reserved. Retrieved Feb 21, 2005.

Focus On Women: Women in World War II
Family Records. Retrieved Jan, 2005.

American Women's History: A Research Guide World War II
Ken Middleton. Middle Tennessee State Univ. Library. Retrieved March, 2005.

Canadian War Industry During the Second World War
Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved Feb 20, 2005.

World War II in Ukraine
Andrew Gregorovich. Copyright © 1996-2000 InfoUkes Inc. Retrieved, March 2, 2005.

World War II Poster Collection
Northwestern University Library. Retrieved Jan, 2005.

Post World War II

Cold War International History Project
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Copyright 2005.

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