Presents first-person accounts of the American home front during World War II, including excerpts from presidential addresses, magazine articles, and personal reflections.
Presents the life stories of twenty-six Americans who worked on the home front during the war, including factory worker Peggy Terry, entertainer Dorothy Lamour, and physicist Elda Anderson.
Presents an overview of the Great Depression through the words and writings of the time: more than twenty-five excerpts from speeches, poems, fiction and non-fiction works.
