1933-1945

Presents an overview of major events and everyday life in the United States between 1941 and 1945 while the country was engaged in World War II, and includes sidebars, photographs, and resources for further study.

Presents twenty-four primary source documents from the American home front in World War II, covering civil defense and the experiences of women, children, African-Americans, Japanese Americans, and communities; and includes a time line, glossary, and further reading list.

Presents an examination of the children who were raised at the center of the Nazi ideology during World War II, providing accounts of their young lives based on school assignments, diaries, letters, and more.

A detailed account of the United States' involvement in World War II, describing the battles, weapons, policies, tactics, and people involved in the European and Pacific operations.

Collects nineteen essays that provide varying perspectives on Joseph McCarthy's obsession over Communism in the United States after World War II, providing historical background on the McCarthy era, and providing primary source documents and personal stories from Joseph McCarthy, Harry S. Truman, journalists, and Americans whose lives were affected by Red Scare accusations.

Examines the events leading up to the 1929 Stock Market crash that resulted in the Great Depression; and explores the methods enacted by both President Hoover and later President Roosevelt to bring the country back.

Recounts the story of the artifacts sold, confiscated, stolen, dismembered, defaced, destroyed, or buried during World War II and its aftermath.

In January 1945, eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, her lover, and a Jew who escaped a train bound for Auschwitz face the elements and witness the horrors of war as they travel west in hopes of reaching the British and American lines.

A series of connected essays that provide information about various aspects of life in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s, discussing community and family, movies and television, science and technology, changing social attitudes and institutions, the Cold War and the consumer, postwar cultural changes, and other topics.

A history of America between the two World Wars, beginning with President Wilson's League of Nations and climaxing with the stock market crash.