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Fall 09 Week Fourteen: The “Greatest Generation’s War”

34. Mon 11/30 Entering the War; FDR’s Four Freedoms

Reading: GML Ch 22 (796-807) “Fighting World War II”

35. Wed 12/2 Life in Wartime

Reading: GML Ch 22 (807-815) “The Home Front” AND view 2 short films posted on the Internet Archive:
It’s Everybody’s War” and “The Town” (both from 1945)

Due in class: Little Paper #5 (Listening In)

Update: if you want to listen to the FULL recording of the War of the Worlds (or any other Mercury Theater of the Air performance), they are all digitized online here. The Radio Lab podcast is not a primary source & cannot be used as one of your paper’s sources.

36. Fri 12/4 Japanese Internment

Reading: Goldstein-Shirley, “Enemies in Their Own Land” [pdf]

See also the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive, JARDA

Posted in Fall 2009, Week by Week.