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Examples of large-scale data science projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bomb Sight – Mapping the World War 2 London Blitz Bomb Census<\/a> – this is an example of a large scale mapping data science project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Websites and Databases to help with your research:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

German History in Documents and Images<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calvin College Propaganda Archive<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voices of the Manhattan Project<\/a> – Oral histories of people who worked on the Manhattan Project and their families<\/p>\n\n\n\n

British Concentration Camps of the South African War (1899-1902) Database<\/a> – 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 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

World War I Pamphlet Collection<\/a> – An archive of more than 200 pamphlets, including government publications and political speeches, with a focus on the United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First World War Poetry Digital Archive<\/a> – 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VAD Database<\/a> – A database of First World War volunteer nurses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1914 – 1918 Online<\/a> – World War I Encyclopedia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World War I (Library of Congress)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Library of Congress Veterans History Project<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

World War I (British Library)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadian Letters and Images Project<\/a> – Images and letters sent home by Canadian soldiers, both transcribed and in audio format, with an emphasis on World Wars I and II<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voces Oral History Project<\/a> – Oral history interviews with Latinx U.S. veterans, including more than 600 from World War II<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yad Vashem Digital Collections<\/a> – Databases and digital collections hosted by the World Holocaust Memorial Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital Military Collection<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imperial War Museum<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Veteran\u2019s History Project<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WW2 People’s War: An archive of World War Two memories written by the public, gathered by the BBC<\/a> – Crowd-sourced memories the Second World War in Britain (gathered in the early 2000s)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WWI and II Bombing Data Sets (open source), THOR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project<\/a> – 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other great resources can be found through the UW Library’s Research Guides for Military History: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UW Library Guide WWI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UW Library Guide WWII<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/digitalww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/digitalww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/digitalww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/digitalww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/digitalww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/digitalww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/digitalww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/digitalww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}