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Victory Gardens - entry from the Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia
This online encyclopedia entry provides a brief overview of the victory and war gardens that existed in America and Great Britain during World War I and World War II. Also includes pictures of victory garden propaganda posters.

History of the Victory Garden, from the Victory Seed Company
This website from a seed company provides insight on why the government encouraged people to grow their own food, as well as tips on growing certain plants and vegetables.

E-Book - The War Garden Victorious, by Charles Lathrop Pack
This book about the war gardens of World War I was written in 1919 by the president of the War Gardens Commission, Charles Pack, and is completely available on the web. The book includes nineteen in-depth chapters ranging from the story behind war gardens to the influences of railroads, big business and daylight savings on the gardens and the future of war gardening. This site also includes two of the victory books issued by the commission in 1919 which discuss the planting and sowing specifics of each crop as well as canning, cooking and drying methods.

Smithsonian Institution's Victory Garden
This is a companion website to the Smithsonian’s real live victory garden. By using a design from a 1943 pamphlet, the Horticulture Services Division of the Smithsonian Institution re-created a World War II victory garden on the terrace outside the Museum's cafeteria. The 130-foot long garden contains over fifty varieties of vegetables and flowers that change with the seasons. The vegetables are heirloom species, older varieties that were available to gardeners during the 1940s. The website provides information on the history and significance of victory gardens as well.

America During World War I and World War II - Conservation Effects
This website has many images of posters and brochures from both World Wars that encourage the population to do their part in conservation for the war. Information about victory gardens, gas and food rationing, scrap drives and salvage collections is included.

Other Online Resources
The Great War
This is the companion website for the PBS documentary "The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century”. This comprehensive website examines the underlying causes for the war, outlines specific battles, explores the importance of trenches, and also gives a lot of coverage for the aftermath of the war. This extremely well organized website features interviews, maps, photographs and an interactive timeline.

National Archive's First World War Online Exhibit
This exhibition provides a valuable research tool for all those interested in modern history - including anyone tracing military records of ancestors who served in the First World War or researching controversies relating to the conflict. The site uses documents in the National Archive to tell the story of the war and its after effects. Also included are maps, images, specific information on important battles and people as well as service records from the war.

Art of The First World War
An online exhibition of 110 paintings brought together by the major history museums of Europe. The paintings are expressions of World War I as seen by 54 painters on both sides. The art is accompanied by a narrative that follows the events of the war from its origins through the death and suffering of the battles.

The World War I Document Archive
This website is a searchable archive of primary documents from World War I. Assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List, the archive is international in focus and intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War. The site can be searched by keyword or browsed by year. One can also browse the site by looking just at treaties and official documents, personal accounts, medical documents, maritime events, or images.

Influenza 1918
This website is the companion site to the PBS documentary about the Influenza Pandemic that occurred during the First World War. The flu, usually a killer of the elderly and young children, was most deadly for people ages 20 to 40. An estimated 675,000 Americans died of influenza during the pandemic, ten times as many as in the WWI. Of the U.S. soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy. This website reflects about the pandemic, investigates if it could ever happen again, and gives first hand accounts of the devastation.

Other Online Resources
World War II Sound and Pictures Page
Archive of video and sound files and photographs of key personalities and topics of World War II. Sound files available include important war personalities such as Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Eduard Benes, Harry Truman, Charles Lindbergh, and Herman Goering. The archive also includes such topics such as the Holocaust, propaganda posters, aircraft, and warships.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Website of the museum not only gives information on the museum’s current exhibitions but also includes personal histories from people of all ages and situations who were affected by the Holocaust as well as an online encyclopedia and online exhibitions. Online exhibits include exhibits about Anne Frank, Nazi book burnings, persecution of homosexuals by Nazis, and also exhibits about music and poetry written during or inspired by the Holocaust.

"What did you do in the war, Grandma?"
This oral history of Rhode Island women's experiences during World War II was written and compiled by ninth-grade Honors English students. This project website presents a valuable insight into the lives of American women who participated in the war effort during the Second World War. Dozens of interviews and photographs of women involved in the war are exhibited.

Posters on the American Home Front (1941-45)
This Web exhibition at the National Museum of American History looks at how government-produced posters helped mobilize a nation and make war aims the personal mission of every citizen.

This Day In History, World War II
This site from The History Channel gives a fact or special event from each day of the Second World War.

The Rise of Adolf Hitler
An online biography of Adolf Hitler that examines his rise from being a failed, aimless artist to becoming the most destructive politician of the 20th century.