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The Richland College Honors/Global Studies Learning Community CCHA-NEH Project Abstract


World War II and Fifty Years Later:
From VMail To EMail
Uncle Sam

Listed below are several internet sources that can be used for background information needed for this class.

Quick Links

» Biography Links
» Weekly Letter Links
» Scrap Book Links
» Interview with a Survivor Links
» Monograph Links

 

 

Biography and Interview Links

» Archives Site
» August 6, 1945 Bombing of Hiroshima - Information from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
» August 9, 1945 Bombing of Nagasaki - Remembering Nagasaki from the Exploratorium.
» Battles and Campaigns site
» Code Talkers site
» Cybrary of the Holocaust - Loads of information about the Holocaust. Includes a Teacher's Guide to teaching the Holocaust.
» D-Day - Site made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of D-Day.
» European-American Internment Camps sites
» Holocaust - A cybrary of the Holocaust (for more Holocaust links click here)
» Holocaust sites
» Images bibliography and related sites
» Important People Site
» L'Chaim a Holocaust Web Project - Memories & Visions of the Holocaust, links, Dachau virtural Tour
» Library of Congress Memory Home Page
» Japanese-American Internment - Lots of links about this event.
» Japanese-American Internment Camps sites
» Pearl Harbor - Pearl Harbor Remembered Site with lots of information on the attack.
» Personal Accounts
» Photos from Depression to end of War
» Prisoners of War sites
» Primary Sources and Activities - From National Archives and Records Administration
» Resistance Movements - Brief descriptions with links to more information.
» Rutgers Oral History Archive of World War II - A collection of oral histories from the World War II era. Developed by Rutgers University, the site contains in-depth interviews with men and women, many of whom are Rutgers graduates, on their war experiences at home and abroad.
» Simon Wiesenthal Center Home Page - Visit the Museum of Tolerance
» The Atomic Bomb site
» The History Place - WWII in Europe - Timeline with photos and text.
» The Invasion of France - page after page of information about D-Day focus on airpower.
» U.S. History Out Loud - Collecting audio materials from presidential libraries and other archives and digitizing them for use over the World Wide Web.
» Voices from the dust bowl 1940-41
» Wartime Journalism of the Afro-American - A collection of wartime journalism by black writers that originally appeared in the Afro-american Newspaper company of Baltimore, the site also includes photographs, and brief biograpies of the journalists as well as links to the Afro-American@Black History Museum.
» Women and War sites
» Women Come to the Front - An online exhibit about women journalists during the Second World War. The exhibit was created by the Library of Congress and contains narrative about the experiences of women journalists during the war and in-depth sections about eight of the most prominent women correspondents, including Toni Frissell, Clare Booth Luce, and Dorothea Lange. The site contains narratives, photoraphs of the journalists, and images of their work.
» WWII Homepage - Links to WWII Homepages
» WWII Resources - Primary source materials on the Web. Original documents regarding ll aspects of the war.
» WWII Timeline - Lots of information and links.

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Weekly Letter Links

» A-bomb WWW-Museum - An online museum about the atomic bomb and the effect of its use on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The site, created by Mitsuru Ohba and John Benson in cooperation with the City of Hiroshima and several other groups, has a strong anti-nuclear weapon perspective. It contains photographs of the destruction, personal narratives of survivors, information on the bomb, andlinks to a number of other related sites.
» August 6, 1945 Bombing of Hiroshima - Information from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
» August 9, 1945 Bombing of Nagasaki - Remembering Nagasaki from the Exploratorium.
» The Avalon Project: World War II Documents - A collection of official documents from the belligerent nations of World War II. Part of the Avalon Project at Yale University, the site contains the text of treaties, military diretives, policy statements, and records of wartime conferences. Materials are arranged alphabetically both by title and by topic.
» Battles and Campaigns site
» Code Talkers site
» D-Day - Site made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of D-Day.
» European-American Internment Camps sites
» Holocaust - A cybrary of the Holocaust (for more Holocaust links click here)
» Holocaust sites
» More Holocaust sites
» Images bibliography and related sites
» Japanese-American Internment - Lots of links about this event.
» Japanese-American Internment Camps sites
» Library of Congress - Documents, photographs, movies, and sound recordings that tell America's story
» Library of Congress Memory Home Page
» Pearl Harbor - Pearl Harbor Remembered Site with lots of information on the attack.
» Personal Accounts
» Photos from Depression to end of War
» Prisoners of War sites
» Primary Sources and Activities - From National Archives and Records Administration
» Resistance Movements - Brief descriptions with links to more information.
» The Atomic Bomb site
» The History Place - WWII in Europe - Timeline with photos and text.
» The Invasion of France - page after page of information about D-Day focus on airpower.
» Voices from the dust bowl 1940-41
» Women and War sites
» Women Come to the Front - An online exhibit about women journalists during the Second World War. The exhibit was created by the Library of Congress and contains narrative about the experiences of women journalists during the war and in-depth sections about eight of the most prominent women correspondents, including Toni Frissell, Clare Booth Luce, and Dorothea Lange. The site contains narratives, photoraphs of the journalists, and images of their work.
» WWII Homepage - Links to WWII Homepages
» WWII Resources - Primary source materials on the Web. Original documents regarding ll aspects of the war.
» WWII Timeline - Lots of information and links.

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Scrapbook Links

» Archives Site
» Cybrary of the Holocaust - Loads of information about the Holocaust. Includes a Teacher's Guide to teaching the Holocaust.
» Holocaust - A cybrary of the Holocaust (for more Holocaust links click here)
» Holocaust sites
» More Holocaust sites
» Images bibliography and related sites
» Japanese-American Internment Camps site
» L'Chaim a Holocaust Web Project - Memories & Visions of the Holocaust, links, Dachau virtural Tour
» Library of Congress Memory Home Page
» Personal Accounts
» Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 - An archive of more than 55,000 photographs of Americans in every part of the nation from the years 1935 - 1945 from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Infromation. Part of the American Memory collection at the Library of Congress, these pictures show American rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, adn the mobilization effort for World War II. The site, which contains primarily black and white photographs, is searchable by keyword and indexed by subject, creator, and location.
» Photos from Depression to end of War
» Poster Art from World War II - an online exhibit of 33 full-color American posters from World War II. Created by the National Archives, the site is organized under topics such as the "Four Freedoms" and "It's a Woman's War Too," and includes background information on each poster.
» Simon Wiesenthal Center Home Page - Visit the Museum of Tolerance
» The Atomic Bomb site
» U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum - Find out about the Museum and the Holocaust. Includes a Teacher's Guide and guidelines fro teaching about the Holocaust.
» Women and War sites

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Monograph

» Archives site
» Images bibliography and related sites
» Library of Congress Memory Home Page
» Main WWII page
» Personal Accounts
» Photos from Depression to end of War
» Propaganda sites
» The Third Reich sites
» Timeline sit

 

Author: Becky Driscoll
E-Mail: bdriscoll@dcccd.edu