Examples of large-scale data science projects:
Bomb Sight – Mapping the World War 2 London Blitz Bomb Census – this is an example of a large scale mapping data science project.
Websites and Databases to help with your research:
German History in Documents and Images
Calvin College Propaganda Archive
Voices of the Manhattan Project – Oral histories of people who worked on the Manhattan Project and their families
British Concentration Camps of the South African War (1899-1902) Database – Database of people registered in British concentration camps 1899-1902, developed by Dr. Elizabeth van Heyningen, University of Cape Town, and funded by the Wellcome Trust
World War I Pamphlet Collection – An archive of more than 200 pamphlets, including government publications and political speeches, with a focus on the United States
First World War Poetry Digital Archive – A collection of drafts and correspondence from English-language poets of the World War I (mostly from England), as well as text, audio and video
VAD Database – A database of First World War volunteer nurses.
1914 – 1918 Online – World War I Encyclopedia
World War I (Library of Congress)
Library of Congress Veterans History Project
Canadian Letters and Images Project – Images and letters sent home by Canadian soldiers, both transcribed and in audio format, with an emphasis on World Wars I and II
Voces Oral History Project – Oral history interviews with Latinx U.S. veterans, including more than 600 from World War II
Yad Vashem Digital Collections – Databases and digital collections hosted by the World Holocaust Memorial Center
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia
WW2 People’s War: An archive of World War Two memories written by the public, gathered by the BBC – Crowd-sourced memories the Second World War in Britain (gathered in the early 2000s)
WWI and II Bombing Data Sets (open source), THOR
Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project – Photographs, letters, diaries, scrapbooks, oral histories, military patches and insignia, uniforms, and posters which document women in military and related service organizations since World War I established by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Other great resources can be found through the UW Library’s Research Guides for Military History: