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On the eve of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, Kaiser Wilhelm II was already playing at war by insisting that courtiers be in military style uniforms. Going so far as to call the U.S. Ambassador an "undertaker" for being in his normal evening attire was somewhat precognizant of the carnage to come.

Learn more about this noteworthy historical resource at ALA 2014!

“Why is this? Of all the battles in all the wars across the span of human history, why does this day hold such a revered place in our memory? What is it about the struggle that took place... that brings us back to remember year after year after year? Part of it, I think, is the size of the odds that weighed against success. For three centuries, no invader had ever been able to cross the English Channel into Normandy, and it had never been more difficult than in 1944.” - President Obama, addressing 65th anniversary of D-Day, 2009 [1]

Introducing ProQuest History Vault: U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944

The school desegregation cases in the NAACP Papers in History Vault give researchers the opportunity to study local conditions throughout the country as well as NAACP legal strategy.

On May 17, 1954, the NAACP won a major legal victory in the Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation case.

Get a look at the newest and upcoming History Vault modules.

Blog post Exploring ProQuest resources on the anti-Vietnam war movement. Written by Daniel Lewis, Product Manager, ProQuest, and posted on April 24, 2014.

Blog post featuring an excerpt of this engrossing interview with Lt. John Spaulding of Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Division, in which he describes how he and his men experienced the D-Day Invasion on June 6, 1944. Written by Daniel Lewis, Product Manager, ProQuest, and posted on April 17, 2014.

Via ProQuest historical resources, researchers can explore immigration and centuries of events from ancient times to the recent past.