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United States History, 1864-Present, Dr. Miguda

Focusing specifically on primary sources, this guide is to help students in Dr. Miguda's US History 1864-Present course find the resources they need for their assignments.

World War II

PLEASE NOTE: VISUAL ARCHIVES MAY CONTAIN IMAGES OR FOOTAGE OF VIOLENCE AND DEATH. 

Digital Public Library of America:  World War II's Eastern Front: Operation Barbarossa

Library of Congress: World War II

Library of Congress Flickr: FSA/OWI Favorites  NOTE: This collection spans from the Great Depression through WWII.  Not all photos will be from WWII era.

Library of Congress Flickr:  Gordon Parks: Black Life in War-Time America

Library of Congress, Veterans History Project Collection:  World War II

US National Archives, April 1945 Universal Newsreels, YouTube playlist

US National Archives, D-Day and the Normandy Invasion, YouTube playlist

US National Archives, Tracing World War II, YouTube playlist

US National Archives, Tuskegee Airmen, YouTube playlist

US National Archives, Why We Fight, YouTube playlist

US National Archives, World War I & World War II Films, YouTube playlist

US National Archives, World War II Films, YouTube playlist

Pearl Harbor

Digital Public Library of America:  Attacks on American Soil: Pearl Harbor and September 11

Japanese American Internment Camps

Digital Public Library of America:  Japanese American Internment During World War II

Library of Congress Flickr: Japanese Americans: Incarceration in WW II

The Home Front Effort

Digital Public Library of America:  Mexican Labor and World War II: The Bracero Program

Digital Public Library of America:  World War II: Women on the Home Front

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Atomic Bomb

Digital Public Library of America:  The Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Age