London Seminar on World War 2 Outside the Ivies it is rare for history undergraduates to do research in a major archive, let alone a major overseas archive.
Most small colleges lack facilities for significant research.
The complete microfiched British War Cabinet minutes. Extensive papers and correspondence of Churchill, F.D. Roosevelt, Vice-President Henry Wallace, Eisenhower, Marshall, Stilwell, Stimson, Patton and other key wartime leaders. Long runs of State Department US Foreign Relations volumes and of the British Foreign Office Confidential Print, 1940-1945. Numerous volumes of British and American Official Histories of the Second World War. At most large universities, only graduate students have this option.