[Detail] Are you doing all you can?
Online activities and background information from the Library of Congress to help students learn more about wars and the home front.
- American Treasures: Women and the War Effort (Exhibition) During World War II, the U.S. government mounted an extensive propaganda campaign encouraging women to join the war effort.
- American Treasures: Women's War Relief (Exhibition) This broadside pattern gives directions for making slippers for Union soldiers.
- Arthur Buchwald (Presentation) This Pulitzer Prize-winning satirist, who passed away on Jan. 17, 2007, shared wartime memories with the Library's Veterans History Project.
- The Blue and the Gray (Online Activity) Solve this set of puzzles and discover the theme the pictures have in common.
- The Days After the Day of Infamy (Presentation) Listen to interviews with Americans collected after the December 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor.
- Documenting the Homefront (Exhibition) During World War II, the Office of War Information took photographs recording homefront activities that supported the war effort.
- First Thrill of Liberty (Exhibition) Posters like this encouraged participation in war bond campaigns during World War I.
- He Called It the Great Republic (Wise Guide) Learn about the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and his role as ally and friend to the United States.
- The Home Front During World War Two (Exhibition) View New York's Penn Station during World War II.
- Jump Back in Time: February 4, 1941 (America's Library) On this date the United Service Organizations was chartered.
- Jump Back in Time: June 13, 1942 (America's Library) On this date the Office of War Information was created.
- Lest Liberty Perish (Exhibition) The Division of Pictorial Publicity produced over 700 poster designs during World War I.
- A Library Mission to Iraq (Wise Guide) Learn how the Library of Congress has come to the aid of the National Library in Baghdad, Iraq.
- Meet Amazing Americans: General George C. Marshall (America's Library) Read about a famous general best remembered for what he did for peace.
- Meet Amazing Americans: General John Joseph Pershing (America's Library) Read about a famous World War I general.
- Meet Amazing Americans: Lieutenant George S. Patton Jr. (America's Library) Meet a famous World War II general.
- Meet Amazing Americans: Pocahontas A Child Keeps Peace Among Nations (America's Library) Read how Pocahontas helped keep peace between Indians and the colonists.
- Meet Amazing Americans: Theodore Roosevelt (America's Library) Learn about America's 26th president. He played an important role in the Spanish American War.
- The Most Famous Poster (Exhibition) Learn about James Flagg's famous poster of Uncle Sam.
- On the Homefront, America During World War I and World War II (Online Activity) Learn how Americans at home supported the war effort during World War I and World War II.
- Rosie the Riveter (Online Activity) Solve this set of puzzles and discover the theme the pictures have in common.
- She Wrote the Most Famous "Hymn" of the Civil War (Wise Guide) Learn the story behind Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic.
- They Blazed a Trail in the Air: The Tuskegee Airmen (Wise Guide) Read about this group of African American fighter pilots in World War II.
- Today in History (December 7) Air Raid on Pearl Harbor (Today in History) How did Americans react to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
- Today in History (June 6) D-Day (Today in History) World War II ended on this date.
- The War Effort (Exhibition) Prominent illustrators promoted and advertised the war effort.
- Y.W.C.A. Girls in Service (Exhibition) Organizations provided services to the armed forces during wartime.
- The Yanks are Coming (Exhibition) Americans copyrighted more than 35,000 World War I patriotic songs, military marches, love ballads, and protest songs.
