History Resources

• The Pacific Railway Act (1862) explained in the film clip we watched from The West (see "The Grandest Enterprise" scene from the transcript)
• US foreign policy: Types of Diplomacy, presentations on Current Events & diplomacy and on How the US Became a Global Power
• Mark Twain's short story "The War Prayer" (see also the songs “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier” & the Luminiers' “Charlie Boy”)
• Race: Power of An Illusion transcript of the excerpt we showed in class, with background on the Supreme Court's stance on who was allowed to be considered "white" and a "citizen" - especially with the 1922 Ozawa case (You can watch the film -episode 3- on Kanopy through Deerfield Public Library.)
• Just War Theory - by Brian Orend for The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • our handouts on Just Cause for WWII & FDR’s War Message (also in American Reader p. 492-494), Just Conduct in WWII and Just End in WWII are in the binder if you missed class
• see presentation on US Foreign Policy from WWI to WWII (to the right)
• Fred Korematsu - film Of Civil Wrongs and Rights website, vimeo (10:49-34:45)
  • JACL activity on Korematsu v. United States (examining arguments)
• Japanese American Women Activists & Japanese American women who served in the US armed forces (a few hundred did)
• Internment & its aftermath
  • 8-part podcast Order 9066 with some wonderful photographs of artifacts, from American Public Media
  • terminology - “Euphemisms, Concentration Camps and The Japanese Internment” (NPR)
  • Japanese Americans in Chicago after Internment
    • 30 Years of Lakeview: Chicago’s Japanese-American History, Part I
    • Japanese Americans on Chicago’s Southside, Part 1 & Part 2
• Holocaust
  • US Holocaust Museum's description of US policy on refugees 1941-1952, including how many Jewish refugees were admitted after the war
  • Kurt Klein obituary (2002) and US Holocaust Museum's oral history
  • America and the Holocaust rough index of content & youtube link
  • "Steps to Mass Murder" - a list of things that Nazis perpetrated in their attempt to lead to genocide of the Jewish people and others in the Holocaust
  • Anne Frank article with her refugee story, FYI - visa fee ($5000 mentioned in the article for his family = $88,000 in today’s money & here is a site that shows current Visa fees from Europe today, and another site which breaks down the refugee vetting process today
• WWII sources
  • battle maps presentation
  • interactive timeline of deaths during WWII
  • aerial bombing and history of incendiary weapons, and the video we used in class The Century: Civilians at War excerpts - see timings document to know which parts to review
  • Bataan Death March: historical details & site with map and 2 min video
  • Japan's Surrender: The Potsdam Declaration's list of the terms Japan had to accept in its unconditional surrender and the other surrender documents