The Home Front During World War II

GRADES 5 THROUGH 8

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

"Through a Glass, Darkly"
pp. 298-321. In New Jersey: A Mirror on America
John T. Cunningham. Andover, N.J.: Afton Publishing Co., 1976

Documents

World War II Rations Book (1942)
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/Period_5/ration.htm

Internet Sites

Highland Park During World War II
http://www.highlandpark.k12.nj.us/users/mgolden/hphistory/index.html

GRADES 9 THROUGH 12

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

"War and Modern America"
pp. 75-96. In OneState in Arms: A Short Military History of New Jersey
Mark Edward Lender. New Jersey History Series. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1991.

Documents

Words That Make New Jersey History
Edited by Howard L. Green. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
Republican Congressmen on War in Europe (1939), pp. 230-232.
Women in Defense Plants (1943), pp. 238-241.
Correspondence Between a Young Woman and Her Husband at War (1943-44), pp. 242-245.

Audio and Video

Seabrook at War
Narrated by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., a one-hour radio documentary about how during and after World War II Seabrook Farms recruited Japanese Americans from the wartime internment camps and Estonians postwar displaced persons camps. A co-production of the New Jersey Historical Commission and public radio station WWFM, 1995. (Listen online)http://www.talkinghistory.org/cohen.html

Internet Sites

Electronic New Jersey: A Digital Archive of New Jersey History
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njh/wwII/

Rutgers Oral History Archive of World War II
http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/

The Battleship New Jersey
http://www.battleshipnewjersey.org/

New Jersey Women's History
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/Web%20Pages/WWII.htm