The United States of the 1940s marked the beginnings of significant
social and political change. Men were shipped off to fight in World
War II, and women entered the workforce in larger numbers than ever
before to "hold down the homefront," earning a taste of what it
meant to be independent. African Americans fought beside their
white counterparts in the war and returned home unwilling to accept
the inequality under which they'd lived for so long. The United
States ushered in the nuclear age with the atomic bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also solidified its role as an
international leader by helping to rebuild Europe and Japan under
the Marshall Plan. The Soviet Union --once an ally -- became a
feared enemy, and Americans looked for communists in their midst
while the U.S. government shifted its policies from world war to
Cold War. But while the government prepared to fight the
communists, the public enjoyed the offerings of the first
supermarkets.
The following documents are just a sampling of the offerings
available in this volume:
- The Life of John Brown, No. 17, painting by Jacob Lawrence
- Linus Pauling's research notebooks
- Photographs of supermarkets in the 1940s
- World War II editorial cartoons by Dr. Seuss
- "Richard Wright's Blues," review of Wright's novel, Black
Boy, by Ralph Ellison
- Farewell to Manzanar and "A Teacher at Topaz" memoirs of
teachers in Japanese-American internment camps
- Text facsimile of "Greenlight" letter from President Franklin
D. Roosevelt to Major League Baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain
Landis in 1942
- Interviews with Holocaust Survivors
- Photographs of Eames Chairs by Ray and Charles Eames
- Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover before the House Un-American
Activities Committee (HUAC)
- World War II ration stamp booklets issued by the U.S.
government
- The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, by Dr.
Benjamin Spock
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