This collection uses primary sources to explore Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the emergence of superhero comic books.

This collection uses primary sources to explore Japanese American internment during World War II.

A collection that uses primary sources to compare American responses to Pearl Harbor and September 11.

Provides interesting information, history, and facts on the Atomic Bomb and its use during WWII.

This summary contains interesting information, history, and facts on the Bataan Death March during the Fall of the Philippines in 1942.

Summary contains interesting information, history, and facts on the Battle of the Coral Sea fought from May 4-8, 1942.

The stock-market crash of 1929 is generally seen as the start of The Great Depression, the worst economic downturn in the history of the United States. The Depression had devastating effects on the country. But it also served as a...

This companion to the PBS series surveys the career of the longest-serving president in U.S. history and leader through the Great Depression and World War II.

An extensive collection of editorial cartoons created by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist J. N. Ding Darling, who was active during the first half of the twentieth century and commented on all the significant happenings and history...

At this site from Social Security Online, you can find a chart showing unemployment from 1922 to 1933.

Detailed facts and information about the Tuskegee Airmen and the Red Tails, the first unit of African American military aviators in the US armed forces.

Discover the role of Navajo Code Talkers in WW2 through a summary and 27 detailed facts.

Part of Huey Long's plan to help Americans in the Depression was to grant Americans $5,000. This is a primary source site that provides the details of his plan.

Excerpt from the book, "Washington Merry-Go-Round" published in 1931 discusses why Hoover failed as a president and the events following the Stock Market Crash of 1929.

Describes the First and Second New Deal initiatives enacted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.