In this packet, you will find the historical documents listed below. Each document comes with a half-page of background information on the topic and "Suggestions for Teaching," discussion ideas and activity suggestions ranging from designing a war bond poster and comic strip to comparing the scrap drives of the 1940s to recycling today. Also included in this packet are useful directions for conducting an oral history interview. These guidelines could be easily used by your students for a class project. Available for loan, please call 402-471-4764 or e-mail for more information.
Primary Source Documents
- Advertisement for a public sale
- War bond poster
- V-mail letter home
- Comic strip from the Nebraska Ordnance Plant News
- Letter home from a WAC
- Photograph of scrap collecting
- Diary of a B-17 co-pilot
- Propaganda leaflet
- Governor Dwight Griswold's V-J Day speech
- Oral history interview transcript