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World War II: Catastrophe and Transformation

A guide of resources and primary sources for EUHI 214 with Prof. Moodie.

Sources

 

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American : an autobiography

 

One woman's Army : a Black officer remembers the WAC / Charity Adams Earley

 

My queer war / James Lord

 

Letters from the 442nd : the World War II correspondence of a Japanese American medic / Minoru Masuda ; edited by Hana Masuda and Dianne Bridgman

 

Inside an American concentration camp : Japanese American resistance at Poston, Arizona / Richard S. Nishimoto ; selected and edited with an introduction and afterword by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

 

I saw the fall of the Philippines / Colonel Carlos P. Romulo

 

I call to remembrance [electronic resource] : Toyo Suyemoto's years of internment / edited by Susan B. Richardson

 

The good fight continues [electronic resource] : World War II letters from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade / edited by Peter N. Carroll, Michael Nash, and Melvin Small

 

For you, Lili Marlene : a memoir of World War II / Robert Peters

 

Foo, a Japanese-American prisoner of the Rising Sun : the secret prison diary of Frank "Foo" Fujita / foreword and notes by Stanley L. Faulk ; introduction by Robert Wear

 

Enemy alien / Kiyo Hirano

 

Desert exile : the uprooting of a Japanese American family / Yoshiko Uchida

 

Combat chaplain : the personal story of the World War II chaplain of the Japanese American 100th Battalion / Israel A.S. Yost ; Monica E. Yost and Michael Markrich, editors

 

Code talker stories / by Laura Tohe ; photographs by Deborah O'Grady

 

Citizen 13660 / drawings & text by Miné Okubo

 

Blood on German snow : an African American artilleryman in World War II and beyond / Emiel W. Owens

 

Better than good : a Black sailor's war, 1943-1945 / Adolph W. Newton, with Winston Eldridge

 

And justice for all : an oral history of the Japanese American detention camps / [compiled by] John Tateishi

 

African American voices from Iwo Jima : personal accounts of the battle / Clarence E. Willie ; with forewords by Frank E. Petersen, John R. Piatak

 

The crucible [electronic resource] : an autobiography by Colonel Yay, Filipina American guerrilla / Yay Panlilio ; edited by Denise Cruz

 

Rosie the Riveter revisited : women, the war, and social change / Sherna Berger Gluck