World War II Sources
Books
- Office of Civilian Defense. United States Citizens Defense Corps. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1942).
- Earley, Charity Adams. One Woman’s Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1989.
- Gamboa, Erasmo. Mexican labor and World War II: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947 Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.
- Gowdy-Wygant, Cecilia. Cultivating Victory: The Women’s Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.
- Yellin, Emily. Our Mother’s War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II. (New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2004).
Websites
- American Red Cross. “World War II and the American Red Cross.” Accessed August 7, 2017. http://embed.widencdn.net/pdf/plus/
americanredcross/ywdnimnrvz/history-wwii.pdf?u=0aormr - Central Intelligence Agency. “What was OSS?” Accessed August 28, 2017. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications
/intelligence-history/oss/art03.htm - The Eleanor Roosevelt’s Papers Project. “Teaching Eleanor Roosevelt Glossary - Office of Civilian Defense.” George Washington University. Accessed August 7, 2017. https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/
teachinger/glossary/office-civilian-defense.cfm - Francis, Bill. “League of Women Ballplayers.” National Baseball Hall of Fame. Accessed August 7, 2017. http://baseballhall.org/discover/league-of-women-ballplayers
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. “Civilian Defense on the Home Front, 1942.” Accessed August 7, 2017. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/world-war-ii/resources/civilian-defense-home-front-1942
- PBS. “Brother Can You Spare A Dime?: The Story of Jessie H. Jones.” Accessed August 14, 2017. http://www.pbs.org/jessejones/
jesse_ww2_2.htm - PBS. “The War at Home: Civil Rights.” Accessed August 15, 2017. http://www.pbs.org/thewar/at_home_
civil_rights_minorities.htm - PBS. “The War at Home: War Production.” Accessed August 14, 2017. http://www.pbs.org/thewar/at_home_
war_production.htm - USO. “Frequently Asked Questions.” Accessed August 28, 2017. https://www.uso.org/faq
- USO. “The Organization: Our Mission.” Accessed August 28, 2017. https://www.uso.org/about
- The Women’s War Memorial. “Women’s War Memorial.” Accessed July 25, 2017. https://www.womensmemorial.org/
- WWII War Memorial. “WWII War Memorial.” Accessed July 25, 2017. https://www.nps.gov/wwii/learn/
historyculture/index.htm
Articles
- Carpenter, Stephanie Ann. “‘Regular Farm Girl’: The Women’s Land Army I World War II.” Agricultural History 71 (1997): 162-185.
- Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black. “What to Show the World: The Office of War Information and Hollywood, 1942-1945.” The Journal of American History, 64 (1977): 87-105.
- Howell, Thomas. “The Writers’ War Board: US Domestic Propaganda in World War II.” The Historian, 59 (1997): 795-813.
- Kimble, James J. and Lester C. Olson. “Visual Rhetoric Representing Rosie the Riveter: Myth and Misconception in J. Howard Miller’s ‘We Can Do It!’ Poster.” Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 9 (2006): 533-569.
- Litoff, Judy Barrett, and David C. Smith. “To the Rescue of the Crops.” Prologue 25 (1993): 1-25. Accessed July 14, 2017. https://www.archives.gov/publications/
prologue/1993/winter/landarmy.html - Kossoudji, Sherrie A., and Laura J. Dresser. “Working Class Rosies: Women Industrial Workers during World War II.” The Journal of Economic History, 52 (1992): 431-446.
- Zhao, Xiaojian. “Chinese American Women Defense Workers in World War II.” California History, 75 (1996): 138-153.
Online Encyclopedia Entry
- McEuen, Melissa A. “Women, Gender, and World War II.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, June 2016. Accessed July 14, 2017. http://americanhistory.oxfordre.com/
view/10.1093/acrefore/978019932917
5.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-55
Online Exhibition
- National Museum of American History – Smithsonian Institute. “Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II.” Accessed July 19, 2017. http://americanhistory.si.edu/righting-wrong-japanese-americans-and-world-war-ii
Thesis
- Howell, Robert Thomas. “The Writers' War Board: Writers and World War II.” PhD diss., Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 1971.
Newspaper
- Deignan, Tom. “Held in WWII Internment Camps, One Group of Japanese-Americans Found an Escape in South Jersey.” The Star-Ledger, June 20, 2015. Accessed July 17, 2017. http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/
2015/06/held_in_wwii_internment_camps_one_group_
of_japanes.html
Audio Recording
- Brand, Madeleine and Charles Solomon. “Disney's WWII Propaganda and Training Films.” National Public Radio, May 31, 2004. Accessed July 29, 2017. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=1917088
Films
- Commando Duck. Directed by Jack King. Walt Disney Productions, 1944.
- Der Fuehrer's Face. Directed by Jack Kinney. Walt Disney Productions, 1943.
- Private Pluto. Directed by Clyde Geronimi. Walt Disney Productions, 1943.
- Walt Disney Treasures - On the Front Lines. Directed by Sharpsteen, Ben, Justice, Bill, Roberts, Bill, Geronimi, Clyde and Ford Beebe. 1941-1943. Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Video, 2004. DVD