American History Since 1877

Resources selected to supplement American History Since 1877 (HSTY 202) taught at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

World at War, 1939-1945

Books in Our Library

• And Justice for All: an Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps [D769.8.A6 A67 1984]
• At Dawn We Slept: the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Gordon W. Prange (1910- ) in collaboration with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon [D767.92 .P72]
• Children of the Atomic Bomb: an American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands [RJ43.Y36 A3 19951}
• Columbia Documentary History of American Women since 1941 [HQ1420 .C65 2003]
• Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two [D769.2 .B46 1990]
• Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda during World War II [HQ1420 .H66 1984]
• Documents of American History (since 1898), 9th ed. [REF E173 .C66 1973] - Primary source
• Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans During World War II [D769.8.A6 G5]
• Making of the Atomic Bomb [QC773 .R46]
• No time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II [D807.U6 F47 1996]
• Road to Pearl Harbor: the Coming of the War between the United States and Japan by Herbert Feis (1893-1972) [D753 .F4]
• Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change [HD6073.A452 U64 1988]
• Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women on the Home Front [D810.W7 S54 1991]
• Taps for a Jim Crow Army: Letters from Black Soldiers in World War II [D810.N4 M38 1983]
• Voices of Valor: D-Day: June 6, 1944 [D756.5.N6 B7 2004]

Note: To find books in the TC3 Library, go to the main Library Gateway page and search the TC3 Catalog. Use the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat to find books in other libraries which you can request through the TC3 Library's Interlibrary Loan service.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Try these suggested subject headings to find books on this topic in the TC3 Library Catalog as well as in the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat.

• Hiroshima, History
• Military nursing
• Nagasaki, History
• Roosevelt, Franklin D.
• United States, History, 1933-1945
• World War, 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945, Biography
• World War, 1939-1945, Japanese Americans
• World War, 1939-1945, Personal narratives
• World War, 1939-1945, Women

Other Media

You can request audio-visual materials from Media Services. Here are a few selections:

• Japanese-American Survivors of the Atom Bomb [sound recording] [Media D767.25.H6 J3] "Interviews with medical experts, government officials and survivors of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki provide insight into the experiences of those Japanese-Americans who survived the holocaust."
• The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter [videorecording] [Media D810.W7 L5 1999]
• Yalta [videorecording]: peace, power and betrayal [Media D734 .C7 2002] "On Feb. 4, 1945, three of the most powerful leaders in the world -- Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin -- met at the seaside Crimean resort town of Yalta to craft a peacetime settlement that would forever alter the European landscape. This program takes viewers behind the scenes of this historic meeting with archival footage, firsthand accounts from interpreters at the conference, journal excerpts, and interviews with scholars. "

History Journals in Electronic Format

History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff from our Databases page and in our list of full-text electronic journals by title and subject. General purpose databases include Academic Search Premier, ProQuest and MasterFile Premier.

Web Resources

• After the Day of Infamy: "Man on the Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor
  Website presents approximately twelve hours of opinions recorded in the days and months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor from more than two hundred individuals in cities and towns across the United States.
• America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
  "Online archives contains images from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection...Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War II."
• FDR Cartoon Archive
  "The collection ... consists mainly of newspaper clippings and approximately 30,000 political cartoons dating from 1932 to 1943."
• Digital History: Audio and Visual Resources Related to WWII
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum: Online Documents
  Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum, Marist College
• Historic Government Publications from World War II: A Digital Library
  Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries
• Japanese-American Relocation Digital Archive
  Over 10,000 digital images consisting of photographs, documents, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, letters, and oral histories.
• National Archives Pictures of World War II
• Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in World War
• Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II
• Studs Terkel: Conversations with America: Recordings from the Good War
  "In The Good War Terkel presents the good, the bad, and the ugly memories of World War II from a perspective of forty years of after the events."
• Suffering Under a Great Injustice: Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
• World War II Poster Collection
  300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies from the onset of war through 1945.