World War II Research Guide

Finding Books

Reference Books

Audio/Visual

Periodical Search

Databases & Electronic Journals 

Webliography

 


Prepared by: Alice Abbott-Moore, Richard Powell, Chet Watson, and John Watts

Library Liaison: Belinda Yff
(502) 456-6773

libsul@sullivan.edu

Updated October 2008

 

 

Finding Books:

 

Search the library catalog using a specific topic, such as marketing or sales, or browse the following subject areas below.

 

To retrieve a listing of items within the Sullivan University library online catalog, click on the appropriate Library of Congress Subject Heading with the corresponding Dewey Decimal number(s), in the box below, then click GO!

 
Bombardment—Germany—Moral and ethical aspects 940.54
Bombardment—Japan—Moral and ethical aspects 940.54
Film noir—United States—History and criticism 791.43, 791.436
Genocide 364.151
Holocaust, 1933-1945—Biography 940.5318
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 940.5318
Japanese Americans—Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 740.08
World War, 1939-1945 940.53, 940.54
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American -- Moral and ethical aspects. 917-917.9493
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British -- Moral and ethical aspects. 649.1
World War, 1939-1945—Casualities—Germany 940.54
World War, 1939-1945—Casualties—Japan 940.54
World War, 1939-1945—Concentration Camps—Germany 940.53185
World War, 1939-1945--Dictionaries 940.53
World War, 1939-1945—Germany 940.542
World War, 1939-1945—Great Britain 940.53
World War, 1939-1945—Jews 940.5318
World War, 1939-1945—Moral and ethical aspects 940.54
World War, 1939-1945—Motion pictures and the war 791.436
World War, 1939-1945—Participation, African American 940.54
World War, 1939-1945—Personal narratives, American 940.542
World War, 1939-1945—Personal narratives, Dutch 940.53
World War, 1939-1945—Personal narratives, French 940.5421, 940.548

World War, 1939-1945--Ukraine--ZHytomyrs'ka oblast'

940.53
World War, 1939-1945—United States 973.9

 

Also, Sullivan University Library offers the Library Alert service, which is designed to alert SUS students, faculty and staff of the latest titles @ the Sullivan University Louisville library! Sign up to be notified by e-mail when the library receives new books, videos, DVDs, etc., in the categories that interest you.

 

 

 

 

Reference Books:

 

Current Issues Sullivan-Louisville Reference Non-Circ: R 306.0973 C976
Ethics Sullivan-Louisville Reference Non-Circ: R 170.3 E84
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust Sullivan-Louisville Reference Non-Circ: R 940.53 E56
Encyclopedia of war crimes and genocide / Leslie Alan Horvitz and Christopher Catherwood. Sullivan-Louisville Reference Non-Circ: R 364.1 H823e
The film encyclopedia Sullivan-Louisville Reference Non-Circ: R 791.43 K19f
The world must know: the history of the Holocaust as told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Sullivan-Louisville Reference Non-Circ: R 940.53 B488w
World War II : America at war, 1941-1945 Sullivan-Louisville Reference Non-Circ: R 940.53 P777

 

Audio/Visual:

 

The 20th Century: The 1940's Sullivan-Louisville VIDEO 973.91 T971 1940
Elie Wiesel goes home Sullivan-Louisville DVD 940.53 E42

 

Periodical Search:

Use the periodical search function on the Catalog home page to find periodical titles indexed in our databases.  For example, if you have a citation to an article and want to see if it is available full-text in our databases, search for the journal title, and the system will lead you to the correct database.

Use the periodical search function on the Catalog home page to find relevant "Country Monitor" and "Economic Studies" reports for a country.  In the "title begins with" search box, type your country name, e.g. "France."  The results list will show all titles beginning with that word.  In this case, "France Country Monitor" and "France Economic Studies" are listed.   Click the link to the Business Source Premier database, click the most recent publication listed, and the table of contents of the issue will appear.

Periodicals: the following paper-format periodicals in the Sullivan University Library may be searched for articles in this subject area:

Journal of Social Psychology

Christian Century

 

 

Databases & Electronic Journals:

 

If you are accessing these databases from off campus, please go to the Remote Access Page tab under the Databases menu. NOTE:  You MUST enter your Sullivan username and password to access the remote database passwords. Click here for more help logging in, or check with library staff for more information.

 

Academic Search Premier

The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

 

Relevant journals in this database:

 

          American Historical Review

    

          Christian Century

 

          Human Rights Quarterly

 

          Jewish Quarterly Review

 

          Journal of Genocide Research

 

          Journal of Social Psychology

         

          Multicultural Perspectives

 

          Reviews in Religion & Theology

 

          Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies

 

Humanities International Complete

Humanities International Complete is a comprehensive database of humanities content, providing full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing, Humanities International Complete provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records.

 

Relevant journals in this database:

 

          History & Memory

         

          History of the Human Sciences

 

          Modern Fiction Studies

 

MasterFILE Premier: An EBSCOhost® database primarily designed as a general reference tool for public libraries, this database provides full-text articles from reference sources including magazines, books, biographies, primary documents, photos, maps and flags.  Updated daily.

 

Relevant journals in this database:

 

          Christian Century

 

          Journal of Social Psychology

 

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

 

Relevant journals in this database:

 

          Jewish Social Studies

 

          Journal of Education

 

          Journal of Social Psychology

  

Sociological Collection

This database provides coverage of more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. Sociological Collection offers information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

 

 

  

 

Webliography (Internet Resources):

BBC--World War II: A comprehensive collection of articles on the war including analyses of various related topics from historians, journalists and political scientists.

Elie Wiesel and the Holocaust: A related research guide created by the library staff of Sullivan University.

Eyewitness to History--World War Two: A collection of articles on many topics related to the war.  All of the articles were written when the events happened, many are eyewitness accounts.

In the First Person: Includes oral histories from World War II

Second World War Encyclopedia: A comprehensive encyclopedia of the war produced in Britain.  Sections include Major Offensives, Military Leaders, Political Leaders, The Holocaust, and Nazi Germany. 

Second World War Experience Centre: Webpage of the Centre whose mission is “to collect, preserve, exhibit, and encourage access to the surviving material evidence”  of the participants in World War II.  The site contains information about history, research, and links. 

World War II--Answers.com: Materials on the war from various sources along with links to numerous other websites.

World War II Remembered: Site dedicated to veterans which contains interviews, timelines, newspaper articles and photographs related to the war.

World War Two in Europe--Timeline and Photos: Presents a detailed timeline of important events both before and during the war.  The years between 1939 and 1945 contain several entries from each month.

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