US History Museum Exhibit Research Links

RESEARCH SOURCES

1. General Sources

· http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=75 for an online textbook on World War II
· http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog22/index.html (good overview of WWII, includes timeline and short video)
· http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/ (photos from the National Archives)
· http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/ (propaganda cartoons from "Dr. Seuss")

2. Topic-Specific Sources

· PEARL HARBOR
i. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1941PEARL.html
ii. http://www.pearlharbormemorial.com/site/pp.asp?c=fqLQJ2NNG&b=1549551
iii. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afcphhtml/afcphhome.html
iv. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec07.html
v. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/19981207monday.html
vi. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/pearl_harbour_01.shtml (great secondary source)
vii. http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/
viii. http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/91dec/fallows.htm (Japanese perspective)
ix. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/USSBS/PTO-Campaigns/USSBS-PTO-2.html (Japanese perspective)

· FDR’S FOREIGN POLICIES
i. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/roosevelt-arsenal.html
ii. http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/democrac/52.htm
iii. http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/infamy.shtml
iv. http://www.law.ou.edu/ushistory/germwar.shtml
v. http://usinfo.org/facts/speech/fdr.html
vi. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1942roosevelt-sacrifice.html
vii. http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/links.html
viii. http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/FDRcartoons.html

· ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
i. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/
ii. http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/26roosevelt/26roosevelt.htm
iii. http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/abouteleanor/

· AMERICAN HOMEFRONT
i. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1942roosevelt-sacrifice.html
ii. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/a_people_at_war/a_people_at_war.html
iii. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_home.html
iv. http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture21.html
v. http://www.archives.gov/pacific/education/curriculum/11th-grade/ww2.html
vi. http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/osu/osuintro.html
vii. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/vogas.htm
viii. http://library.thinkquest.org/15511/index.htm


· DEBATE OVER THE ATOMIC BOMB
i. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/hiroshim.htm
ii. http://www.dannen.com/hiroshima_links.html
iii. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/index.php
iv. http://web.archive.org/web/19990302031223/http:/www.glue.umd.edu/~enola/
v. http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/journey/journey1.html
vi. http://www.inicom.com/hibakusha/
vii. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us36.cfm


· WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES
i. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html
ii. http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/WomenInWWII.html
iii. http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_women.htm
iv. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/a_people_at_war/a_people_at_war.html
v. http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/st/~cg3/outline.html
vi. http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/rosie/


· MAJOR BATTLES/SOLDIERS’ PERSPECTIVES
i. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/w2frm.htm
ii. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/
iii. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/guts/
iv. http://www.pbs.org/now/society/scrapbook.html
v. http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/battlelines/chapter2/chapter2_5a.html
vi. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/a_people_at_war/a_people_at_war.html
vii. http://www.loc.gov/vets/wwii-webcasts-may27.html
viii. http://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_5228.htm (Iwo Jima)

· JAPANESE-AMERICAN INTERNMENT
i. http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog22/index.html
ii. http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/index.html
iii.http://www.kcet.org/socal/voices/the-guest-room/little-tokyo-fka-bronzeville.html
iv. http://www.geocities.com/allmyluvisurs/9066.html
v. http://www.janm.org/exhibits/hoshida/
vi. http://contest.thinkquest.jp/tqj1998/10060/interview.htm
vii. http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/wracamps/index.html
viii. http://www.csuohio.edu/art_photos/manzanar/manzanar.html


· JAPANESE-AMERICAN MILITARY EXPERIENCES
i. http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/issei.html
ii. http://www.goforbroke.org/
iii. http://www.katonk.com/442nd/442nd.htm
iv. http://www.senate.gov/~inouye/gfb/index.html
v. http://www.loc.gov/vets/wwii-webcasts-may27.html


· AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCES
i. http://www.tuskegeeairmen.org/
ii. http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/exhibits/tuskegee/airoverview.htm
iii. http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/Tuskegee.html
iv. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart8.html
v. http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/ww2-pictures/
vi. http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_wwii.htm


· MEXICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCES
i. http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/5views/5views5d.htm
ii. http://www.jsri.msu.edu/museum/pubs/MexAmHist/chapter16.html#three
iii. http://www.csupomona.edu/~jis/2001/Santillan.pdf
iv. http://www.hsp.org/files/mexicanamericansandworldwarii.pdf
v. http://w3.usf.edu/~lc/MOOs/zootsuit/
vi. http://www.sgvtribune.com/mexicanveterans
vii. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/zoot/
viii. http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u7sf/u7materials/cosgrove.html
ix. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/mexican_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=104


· NATIVE AMERICAN EXPERIENCES
i. http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/NAWWII.html
ii. http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-2.htm
iii. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/native_voices/nav4.html
iv. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/07/20010726-5.html
v. http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/nativeamerican01/wwii.html
vi. http://www.nwbshoshone-nsn.gov/culture/history/wwii.htm
vii. http://www.loc.gov/vets/wwii-webcasts-may27.html

· AMERICAN RESPONSES TO THE HOLOCAUST
i. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/american_responses/