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SOCIAL STUDIES: AMERICAN STUDIES: 1940-1949 - Accurate as of May 2005
Information on America from 1940-1949. Information overlapping 1900-1939. Additional info on the Roosevelt ’s, Great Depression, Cold War, and the Holocaust.
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Ad*Access
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
Images of 7,000 ads printed in the US and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955; subject areas are radio, TV, transportation, beauty & hygiene, World War II
Alger Hiss Story
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/
Searchable source for information
America and the Holocaust
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/
Primary sources, interviews, timeline, maps, people and events, teachers’ guide
America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
Photographs from the era
CNN: Cold War
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/
Interactive maps, archival footage, key players, declassified documents
Conscience and the Constitution
http://www.pbs.org/conscience
Explore the Japanese-Americans who stood trial for resisting the draft at a concentration camp
Diner City
http://www.dinercity.com
Diner directory, diner reviews, and other roadside information
Eleanor Roosevelt
http://www.pbs.org/amex/eleanor
Excerpts from FBI file, read her newspaper columns, and more
Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt
http://www.mhrcc.org/fdr/fdr.html
Transcripts of 14 of his radio broadcasts are available here
FDR
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/presidents/nf/featured/fdr/fdec.html
His early career, presidential career, domestic and foreign affairs policies, and more
Franklin D. Roosevelt
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/fdr/
Links to sites about the man
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu
Documents, photographs, recording, and other primary resources
Life Time Machines: Cover Collection, 1936-1972
http://www.pathfinder.com/Life/covers
Search by subject, keyword, or photographer
United States Historical Census Data Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1900 to 1960; searchable by several variables
USDA Historical Photos
http://www.usda.gov/oc/photo/histfeat.htm
Collection of photographs provides a portrait of rural and small town American life mainly in the late 1930s and early 1940s; arranged by subjects
Voices from the Dust bowl
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
Documents the everyday lives of residents in migrant work camps in central California in 1940-41
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