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Helmke Library Catalog
Use Library Search to find books, journals, media, and digital resources. Does not include articles.

Proquest Ebook Central
Search and view the full text of ebooks.
WorldCat
Provides access to the OCLC database with more than 1 billion bibliographic records for materials in all formats held by libraries in the U.S. and around the world.

Historical Abstracts
This bibliographic database covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada), focusing on the 15th century to the present.
America: History and Life
Includes a large collection of scholarly journals by historians. You can limit by "Historical Period." After searching, you can limit by "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals."
JSTOR
Search the full text of journals in many disciplines, including over 450 journals in history. You can narrow by date and also scroll down to narrow by discipline. Also includes book reviews.
Google Scholar
Full text searching of books and articles. If you find a title of interest, try the "cited by" link.

Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity by Dinah Shelton
ISBN: 0028659929
Publication Date: 2004-12-01
This encyclopedia spans the globe to explain the issues behind crimes against humanity and human rights issues as they relate to individual countries and the world at large. It traces the history of events that qualify as genocide and crimes against humanity, profiles perpetrators and heroes, and explains international laws and law proceedings aimed at ending genocide and crimes against humanity.

Holocaust Literature by S. Lillian Kremer (Editor)
ISBN: 1849722161
Publication Date: 2007-09-04
This encyclopedia offers an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the important writers and works that form the literature about the Holocaust and its consequences.

Selected Reference Materials Available in the Catalog
A list of encyclopedias and other materials, from the catalog, available either electronically or in print.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of e-reference books from a variety of publishers.
Oxford Reference Online Premium
A collection of e-reference books from Oxford University Press.

Below are a few selected websites that might also be useful as you brainstorm potential topics:

Genocide Studies Program at Yale
War Crimes and Genocide: Topical Websites
A guide from Emory University. See also the "Individual War Crimes and Genocide" section.

While library catalogs are often used to find secondary sources, they are also excellent tools for finding primary sources:

Helmke Library Catalog
To find primary sources in the Library's catalog, you could try adding the word "sources" or "memoir" or "personal narratives" to your search. Or, you could try adding the word "translated" to look for foreign language titles that have been translated into English.

WorldCat
Given the size and scope of WorldCat, you may be able to locate some digital archival materials with this tool.

Times (London) Digital Archive 1785-1985
Full text searching of the Times of London, often considered the newspaper of record for Great Britain.
Periodicals Index Online
Covers 1665-1995, with over 2,000 titles. Includes most U.S. coverage, with some international content. See also Periodicals Archive Online.

Historical Worldwide Newspapers Online: Europe
Contains primarily foreign-language titles with digital access. From Bowling Green State University.

NewsVault
Searches across a variety of U.S. and British newspapers and periodicals, such as the Daily Mail Historical Archive and the Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992. You can limit your search to a single or multiple publications.

Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945
Offers fully text-searchable images of the British Foreign Office information files gathered from across German-occupied territories as well as neutral states. Includes first-hand reports (letters from diplomats, telegrams, news clippings and more) and the official discussions surrounding them.
HeinOnline
Full text searching and PDFs of U.S. official documents, including the Pentagon Papers, U.S. Statutes at Large, Presidential Library, Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), as well as a Supreme Court Library, Treaties and Agreements Library, Women and the Law, Legal Classics and World Constitutions Illustrated, among others.

Gale Primary Sources
Search across over thirty-five Gale primary source databases. Click the down pointing arrow to view and select specific databases.

Digital National Security Archive
The database includes the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. foreign and military policy decisions since 1945.
U.S. Declassified Documents Online
Provides online access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents. Covers major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond.
ProQuest Congressional
Provides comprehensive access to U.S. legislative documents 1817 to present and full-text of many Congressional documents, 1990 to present.

HathiTrust
HathiTrust offers a large collection of digitized books, journals and other library materials. It is especially useful for finding materials in the public domain.
Genocide Documentation Project
From the National Security Archive at GWU.
Primary Sources: A Guide from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
For recommended print sources, try looking for the item in a library catalog.
Conflict Resolution: War, Genocide, Terrorism
A guide from Georgetown University Libraries with links on genocide and related topics.
Holocaust Links and Resources
A guide from John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Holocaust Records via Ancestry.com
Digitized genealogical records; scroll down to view a list of sources.
International Crimes Database
Try, for example, searching for "Genocide" cases with no search terms and no date.
International Military Tribunal for Germany
Part of the Avalon Project at Yale.
United Nations Documents
See also HathiTrust.