AM Primary Sources: Peace, War, & Defense

This collection covers the many facets of American involvement in World War Two, from 1939-1949. American military and civilian involvement in all major theatres of operations is represented, and include oral history video interviews, personal letters, diaries, photographs, and military records.

Showcases a wealth of primary source material for the study of the Great War, complemented by a range of contextual secondary features. The three available modules are: Personal Experiences, Propaganda & Recruitment, and Visual Perspectives and Narratives.

Primary source collection focusing on medicine in the Crimean War, the American Civil War and the First World War, among other conflicts. The impact on medicine during peacetime is also covered, notably through documents relating to the influenza epidemic of 1918 and post-war rehabilitation. Includes hospital reports and registers, correspondence, memoirs and diaries, printed books and periodicals, photographs, maps, other illustrative material and ephemera.

This collection contains both rare and well-known wartime publications for soldiers serving in major theaters around the world. Publications are included from the US, Canada, New Zealand, India, and countries of Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Both Allied and Axis publications are presented, offering a broad view of the war and the experiences of those on its front lines.