This collection uses primary sources to explore women's work on the home front during World War II.

This collection uses primary sources to explore Japanese American internment during World War II.

This lesson plan explores the contributions of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) during World War II, and their aviation legacy. They will examine portrayals of women in World War II posters (and newsreels) and compare and...

Consider how U.S. foreign policy changed in the aftermath of WWII, and analyze the philosophical, geopolitical, and economic factors that influenced these changes. In this interactive lesson from WGBH, students develop a written argument...

A collection that uses primary sources to explore the Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Age it started.

This collection uses primary sources to explore Elie Wiesel's Night and the Holocaust.

A collection that uses primary sources to compare American responses to Pearl Harbor and September 11.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the Bracero Program.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the emergence of superhero comic books.

This extensive learning module examines the role of economic fluctuations in creating new demands on the government to design reforms and how the United States became a dominant military, political, cultural, and economic force in the...

This collection uses primary sources to explore the impact of television on news media.

Page depicts information on the Great Depression and World War II, with famous photo of migrant worker by Dorothea Lange from 1938.

This resource contains 160,000 black and white photos and 1600 color photos documenting America from 1935-1945. These images make up the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the cultural impact of swing dancing.

This collection uses primary sources to explore social realism in American art.

This collection uses primary sources to explore John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the New Deal.

This collection uses primary sources to the history of food stamp programs.

Discussion of the effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and the end of World War II.

Provides details facts and an overview of the US Mobilization for WW2.

Article features a summary and interesting facts about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Provides details of important dates and events leading up to and including the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941.

Article on the causes of WW2 provides detailed facts and summary of events that started the war including the attack on Pearl Harbor and the rise of dictators in Germany and Italy.