Start here to learn more about the events discussed in this chapter.
Ronald A. Goldberg, America in the Forties (2012). An engaging account of the home front during World War II.
David Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (1999). A fascinating exploration of both the domestic and military experience of World War II.
Elizabeth Mullener, War Stories: Remembering World War II (2002). Fifty-three personal stories of war.
Emily Yellin, Our Mothers’ War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II (2004). The war seen from the point of view of women.
For documents and images related to the war, see “A People at War” and “Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II” (archives.gov/exhibits/exhibits-list.html); “Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II” (lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html); “The Japanese American Legacy Project” (densho.org/densho.asp); and “Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar” (memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml).
“The Enola Gay Controversy: How Do We Remember a War That We Won?” at lehigh.edu/~ineng/enola. Lehigh University professor Edward J. Gallagher’s site on the decision to drop the atomic bomb.