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Middle School Nonfiction: WWII in the US

Nonfiction articles on the Holocaust, World War II Europe and World War II in the U.S.

Eyes of the Emperor and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

White, David. The Famous 442nd: Japanese-Americans Fought Fiercely for America. , 2012. ProQuest; SIRS Discoverer, https://explore.proquest.com/sirsdiscoverer/document/2250241167?accountid=313.(Informative/Reference)

Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II- Smithsonian (Online Museum Exhibit)

Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution (Site Currently under construction)

San Francisco Chronicle (Newspaper/Primary Source)

Garcia, Oskar. "Hawaii's Inouye, Senator and War Hero, Dies at 88." King County Journal, 12/18 2012. ProQuest; SIRS Discoverer, https://explore.proquest.com/sirsdiscoverer/document/2265872837?accountid=313. (Newspaper)

Kindy, Dave. "'DEFEND YOUR COUNTRY AND MAKE US PROUD'." World War II, vol. 37, no. 4, spring 2023, pp. 18+. Gale In Context: Middle School, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A743660889/MSIC?u=pl2024&sid=bookmark-MSIC&xid=09b6c454. Accessed 21 Dec. 2023. (Interview)

"Profile: Seattle, Washington's new Panama Hotel Teahouse." Weekend All Things Considered, 8 Dec. 2001. Gale In Context: Middle School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A166032683/MSIC?u=pl2024&sid=bookmark-MSIC&xid=8159b1d4. Accessed 21 Dec. 2023. (Interview)

"Letters from the Japanese American Internment." Smithsonian in Your Classroom, Nov 2001. SIRS Discoverer, https://explore.proquest.com/sirsdiscoverer/document/2260138102?accountid=313. (Primary Source/Letters)

Aratani, LoriBehind a World War II internment camp’s barbed wire, two Scouts forged a bond. It endured when they both entered Congress. eLibrary, 12 Aug 2017, https://explore.proquest.com/elibrary/document/1928280700?accountid=313. (News Article)

Henson, Steve. "For Some, Baseball Was More Than a Pastime." Los Angeles Times, Sept, 1997. SIRS Discoverer, https://explore.proquest.com/sirsdiscoverer/document/2262255976?accountid=313. (News Article)

Army Recruiting Team Coming (Primary Source Newspaper, Library of Congress) See full LOC collection of Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers here.

Eleanor Roosevelt: Undo the Mistake of Internment (Primary Source Speech)

Ugly History: Japanese American incarceration camps - Densho (Video Documentary)
The Akune brothers: Siblings on opposite sides of the war - Wendell Oshiro (Video Documentary)

 

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Code Talker

"Navajo code talkers." RM Education, Ltd 2020. eLibrary, https://explore.proquest.com/elibrary/document/2459090269?accountid=313. (Informative/Reference)

NavajoCode (Interviews)

Transmitting messages in Choctaw (Letter/Official Wartime communication/Primary Source)

Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (Dictionary/Reference)

Carlisle Indian School (Historical Marker)

Remarks by the President in a Ceremony Honoring the Navajo Code Talkers (The White House) (Speech)

An Unbreakable Code (Video Documentary)

2nd Code-Talker Interview (Video Documentary)

Peter MacDonald - Navajo Code Talker - Living History (Video Documentary)

 

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Is it Night or day?

One Thousand Children Website (Official site- Informative; includes Primary source material)

The Children

Four Interviews of Survivors (Video Documentary/Includes Primary source interviews)

I am a Holocaust Survivor (Video Interview/Primary Source)

The Rescuers (Informative)

Illegal Immigration: A Personal History (Primary source narrative)

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