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Siteseen: American Historama: Bataan Death March
This summary contains interesting information, history, and facts on the Bataan Death March during the Fall of the Philippines in 1942.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Ww2 Navajo Code Talkers
Discover the role of Navajo Code Talkers in WW2 through a summary and 27 detailed facts.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Tuskegee Airmen
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.
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National Park Service: Zion National Park
What do you know about Zion National Park? Use this site to learn more about this national park. This site features activities, maps and more.
US Senate
Historical Minutes: An Era of Investigations: 1921 1940
Read these series of essays written by U.S. Senate historians that detail important events and people during the era of investigations in the Senate just before the Great Depression and continuing up to the entrance to World War II. The...
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U.s. Drug Enforcement Administration: Barbiturates [Pdf]
Here, you can read a very brief history of the development and use of prescription barbiturates, as well as descriptions of ultrashort, short, intermediate, and long-acting barbiturates.
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Huey Long With Raised Fist
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.
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Fruit From Washington: Crop Harvests at Home in America in World War Ii
This site is filled with posters from World War II, the Great Depression, and World War I which encouraged using food wisely, growing victory gardens, and helping harvest the crops on commercial farms.
US Department of Labor
U.s. Department of Labor: Hall of Secretaries: Frances Perkins
The U.S. Department of Labor provides this brief biography of Cabinet member, Frances Perkins, who led reform efforts in the realm of labor law during the Great Depression. Short, biographical sketch with good, factual information being...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Japanese American Internment in World War Ii
This collection uses primary sources to explore Japanese American internment during World War II.
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Cowles Library: Editorial Cartoons of J. N. "Ding" Darling
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...
Social Security Administration
Social Security Online: Unemployment Compensation
At this site from Social Security Online, you can find a chart showing unemployment from 1922 to 1933.