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"My Dear little Boys"
Using Primary Documents: A letter home from the war

Dear Ma and Pa
Primary Documents: Letters Home from the War

The ABCs of World War II
An Artistic Vocabulary Lesson

Working Women of WWII
Primary Documents: The Editorial Cartoon

What Would You Do?
A Discussion About the Ethics of War

Executive Orders
Primary Documents: The President and African Americans

Hitler's Fatal Gamble?
Comparing Totalitarianism and Democracy

What Makes a Hero?
A Reading and Writing Assignment

Eisenhower Speaks
Primary Documents: D-Day Orders

Where in the World War?
Mapping the Geography of D-Day

Where in the World War?
Mapping WWII in the Pacific

Take a Memo
Primary Documents: African-American Soldiers on the Homefront

A Turning Point in WWII
A D-Day Diary: Evaluating an Important Primary Source

D-Day by the Numbers
Charting and Graphing WWII Data

A Day of Infamy
Analyzing FDR's Pearl Harbor Speech

A Picture's Worth 1,000 Words
"Reading" Photographs as a Primary Source

Creative Voices
Primary Documents: WWII Poetry of African Americans

The Changing Face of Women
Propaganda and Popular Opinion from WWII

The Daytime D-Day Hour
Producing a D-Day Talkshow

Those Were the Days, My Friend
Comparing Prices and Percentages from WWII

Creating Trading Cards
A Technology Connected Lesson