World War II – Foran’s Electronic Resources
Databases and E-Books:
(ask Mrs. Pellegrino for usernames/passwords – all have the typical Foran username/password
except for Grolier, Discovery Education Streaming, and iCONN)
1. Grolier
**from inside the database articles, click on links for additional quality websites and periodical articles about your topic.**
2. Marshall Cavendish
** Marshall Cavendish contains textual information as well as many visuals. Please note that you need to advance to
additional pages in each article at the bottom of the screen.
3. Salem History platform: includes the databases Great Events From History, Great Lives from History, Weapons &
Warfare
4. SIRS Decades Click on “1940s” link and topics will appear on left including Japanese-American Internment; World War
II: Foreign Policy; World War II: Home Front; World War II: Land, Air and Sea; World War II: Returning Soldiers
5. Decades in America Click on + sign next to “Decades”. Choose “The Forties in America”.
6. iCONN.org (The Connecticut Digital Library)
(no username/pw required at school; from home, need Milford Public Library card number)
***Click High School Resources (on left)***
*iCONN is most effective when using each database separately, rather than using the OneSearch feature. Here are some
great databases within iCONN for World War II research:
(1)
Student Research Center – click on History, then click on World War II and enter keyword search term
(2)
History Reference Center
(3)
(4)
MAS Ultra School Edition: information from magazines, newspapers, biographies and primary source documents
Academic Search Premier – articles from professional & academic journals, magazines, and newspapers (great for
more in-depth & specific concepts and information rather than overviews).
E-Reference Books & Reading link within iCONN.org:
Ebook examples: World War II: Allied Forces; World War II: Axis Forces; Attack on Pearl Harbor: America Enters World
War II; Individual History books on various countries such as Poland, Austria, Belgium, etc.
7. E-Book: World War II Reference Library
Go to the library catalog: http://destiny.milforded.org and click on Foran High School
Log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to the computers at Foran.
Click on Catalog tab
Change “location” to Milford Public Schools
Change “material type” to Electronic Book
Type World War II and click Title tab
Click on title
Click on blue link “Available for High School via Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click here to access.”
Use Table of Contents and Index to navigate through the e-book.
Academic Websites
1. Subject Links & Class Projects page on the Media Center website – click Social Studies. Examples:
http://www.besthistorysites.net/ - choose World War II on left
http://www.loc.gov/
2. ipl.org (Internet Public Library)
3. http://www.sweetsearch.com/ (search engines for students; each website has been evaluated by research
professionals)
4. infotopia.info (academic search engine)
5. WebPath Express: http://destiny.milforded.org - choose Foran High School -click on Catalog -click on WebPath Express
on left
Videos
Discovery Education Streaming (videos, audioclips and more)
http://students.discoveryeducation.com
(ask Mrs. Pellegrino for the username and password)
DVDs at Foran:
Freedom Flyers of Tuskegee (DVD 940.54 FRE)
Deadliest Battle (Battle of Stalingrad) (DVD 940.54 DEA)
Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of World War II (DVD 940.54 TOP)
The Tragedy of Bataan (DVD 940.54 TRA)
The Bombing of Germany (DVD 940.544 BOM)
Chronicle of the Third Reich (DVD 943.086 CHR)
(also have numerous videos in VHS format)
World War II – Foran’s Print Resources
Jackdaws kits (primary source materials):
Wars (PRINTS 940 WAR)
Japanese-American Internment (PRINTS 940.5472 INT)
A Cartoon History of World War II (PRINTS 940.3 CAR)
The Atomic Bomb (PRINTS 940.541 ONE)
World War II: The Home Front (PRINTS 940.54 WOR)
The Coming of War: 1939 (PRINTS 940.53 GIL)
The Second World War (PRINTS 940.53 RAY)
The Battle of Britain (PRINTS 940.54 COL)
Britain at War (PRINTS 942.084 CAL)
Hitler & Germany, 1919-1939 (PRINTS 943.08 EDW)
A Cartoon History of World War II (PRINTS 940.3 CAR)
World War II: The Home Front (PRINTS 940.54 WOR)
Dunkirk
(PRINTS 940.54 COL)
Winston Churchill (PRINTS 92 CHU)
Paper Bullets: Great Propaganda Posters Axis & Allied Countries WWII (PRINTS 940.5488 PAP)
The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany (PRINTS 940.4 RIS)
Jewish Resistance to the Nazis (PRINTS 940.4 JEW)
The Nazi Holocaust (PRINTS 940.4 NAZ)
The Nazi Holocaust Failed in Denmark (PRINTS 940.4 NAZ)
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (PRINTS 940.4 NUR)
The Holocaust (PRINTS 940.53 PHI)
Reference Books:
(Available for check-out with permission.)
New Grolier Encyclopedia of World War II (8 volumes) (REF 940.4 NEW)
Encyclopedia of World War II: A Political, Social & Military History (5 volumes) (REF 940.53 ENC)
History of World War II (3 volumes) (REF 940.53 HIS)
Simon & Shuster Encyclopedia of World War II (REF 940.53 SIM)
The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting (REF 973 COP)
Decade of Triumph: The 40s (volume 6) (REF 973.9 OUR)
American Decades 1940-1949 (REF 973.8 AME)
The Forties in America (3 volumes) (REF 973.91 FOR)
The Pacific War Atlas 1941-1945 (REF 940.54 SMU)
Non-Fiction Books:
(We have an extensive collection of World War II books including the following examples.)
World War II: Primary Sources 940.53 BIG
World War II: Biographies (2 volumes) 940.53 HOW
World War II: Almanac (2 volumes) 940.53 FEL
Strategic Battles in Europe 940.53
Strategic Battles in the Pacific 940.5426 RIC
The Holocaust 940.53 HOL
Kristallnacht 940.53 MAR
Remember World War II 940.53 NIC
Timelines World War II 940.53 HAR
Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp 940.53 NAR
Navajo Code Talkers 940.54 AAS
The Battle of Britain 940.54 ALL
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor in American History 940.54 ANT
Flags of Our Fathers 940.54 BRA
The Attack on Pearl Harbor 940.54 BUR
Hiroshima 940.54 BUR
American Women Pilots of World War II 940.54 DON
D-Day and the Liberation of France 940.54 DAV
D-Day 940.54 D
The Attack on Pearl Harbor 940.54 DAV
Left for Dead 940.54 NEL
American Women Spies of World War II 940.54 PAY
Reporting World War II (2 parts) 940.54 REP
Letters from the Homefront: World War II 940.54 SCH
Ghosts in the Fog 940.54 SEI
The Japanese American Internment 950.53 HEI
The SS: Hitler’s Instrument of Terror 940.54 WIL
Biographies:
Churchill 92 CHU
Hirohito: Behind the Myth 92 HIR
Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker (discusses her work in the French Resistance) 92 BAK
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler’s List Survivor 92 HIL
Hitler 92 HIT
Joseph Stalin 92 STA
Benito Mussolini 92 MUS
Margaret Bourke-White (Life photographer and correspondent during World War II) 92 BOU
The Greatest of Friends: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill 1941-45 920 ALL
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives 920 BUL