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A UN database providing close to 800 documents that can be understood broadly as peace agreements and related material. Users can access the full texts of the agreements in different languages and can use different search criteria, including searching by a number of different thematic issues.

This official congressional website offers access to treaty texts, ratification resolutions, timelines and related materials dating as far back as the 81st Congress (1949–50), but primarily representing materials from the mid–1960s onward. Materials are text searchable and browseable according to chronological order, status, and topic of the treaty. Relevant topics include arms control, international law, human rights, and more.

The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library houses one of the largest collections of more than sixty thousand core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments. The site also provides access to more than four thousand links and a unique search device for multiple human rights sites. This comprehensive research tool is accessed by more than 250,000 students, scholars, educators, and human rights advocates monthly from over 150 countries around the world. Documents are available in nine languages - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.

Created by the Library of Congress and the American Folklife Center, the Veterans History Project is an initiative to collect, store, and offer access to individual American veterans' accounts of their wartime experiences. Users can search interviews by name, service location, unit, rank, interviewer, keywords and notes. Searches can be limited according to branch, gender, type of material, and war, ranging from World War I to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. A browse feature allows users to view results by last name, war and service branch, state of residence, and race/ethnicity.

Provided by the British Library, the digital exhibition on Victorian Britain provides both primary sources and essays by historians, both concentrating on everyday life in the time and place. The reign of Victoria (1837–1901) was one of enormous economic, technological, social, cultural, and other changes, many of which are featured in this exhibitions. Many individual sections and a number of documents touch on the role of women in these changes.

The historical record of the American Civil War includes a vast amount of visual material—photographs, illustrated news periodicals, comic publications, individually-published prints, almanacs, political cartoons, illustrated envelopes, trade cards, greeting cards, sheet music covers, money, and more. The era’s visual media heralded an unprecedented change in the production and availability of pictorial media in everyday life and an innovation in the documentation of warfare. This website features presentations by historians, art historians, and archivists who discussed their research with institute participants. Each presentation is accompanied by a gallery of archival images; a set of primary documents that illuminates aspects of the subject; and a bibliography of books, articles, and online resources for further investigation.

The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive makes available to the public the results of a program underway since 1981 to interview Holocaust survivors. Created by Sidney Bolkosky, a professor of history at the University of Michigan–Dearborn and hosted by the university's libraries, the interviews are available on the site as short sound files embedded with texts, all of which are in English. Users can browse the interviews by the last name of the interviewee, as well as access links to related materials for educators and other researchers. 

Created by the British Library, Voices of the Holocaust is a digital collection of oral history interviews of Jewish survivors, both men and women, who came to Britain to live during or after World War II. The testmonies are most accessible through five thematic collections: life before the Holocaust, ghettos and deportations, the camps, resistance and liberation. Each is available both as an audio file and in transcription. The site also includes useful references and information about the camps, and resources for teachers, including lesson ideas.

Provided by the New York Public Library's Digital Collections service, this digital collection compiles a few short pieces of sheet music (most are 2-8 pages) consisting primarily of songs devoted to specific wars or having a theme of wars, soldiers and related topics. It also includes songs whose lyrics may have no connection to wars but whose cover reflects engagement with the topic. 

The website of the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, AR, offers a clearinghouse of resources related to his administration (1993–2001), including links to finding aids, digital collections from the national archives, publically available papers, speeches, and other materials on a full range of issues, as well as a guide to requesting declassification of information through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. Relevant issues include the conflict in Bosnia and other former republics of Yugoslavia; Iraq, Iran, and beyond; as well as the subjects of international jihadism and terrorism.

The Winter Soldier Investigation was a media event sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) from January 31 to February 2, 1971. It was intended to publicize war crimes and atrocities by the United States Armed Forces and their allies in the Vietnam War. The VVAW challenged the morality and conduct of the war by showing the direct relationship between military policies and war crimes in Vietnam. The three-day gathering of 109 veterans and 16 civilians took place in Detroit. Discharged servicemen from each branch of the armed forces, as well as civilian contractors, medical personnel and academics, all gave testimony about war crimes they had committed or witnessed during the years 1963–1970. The event was recorded, and a documentary film called Winter Soldier was released in 1972. [Wikipedia]

Since the historic adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2000, the recognition of the important and beneficial role that women play in building sustainable peace has steadily increased. Civil society arguments for women’s inclusion in the formal processes of peacemaking and peacebuilding are bolstered by growing evidence of women’s impact on the ground in unstable and conflict-affected countries. Numerous policymakers and practitioners within the UN and other multi-lateral organizations are publicly acknowledging the value of women in leadership roles. Yet the lack of women in senior positions in the UN, particularly in peacekeeping missions, reflects the reality that significant cultural and institutional impediments remain to women’s entry and advancement within the UN. As a result, there is frustration with the slow pace of progress both inside and outside the system. There are few mechanisms in place to facilitate regular information sharing between the UN and...