World War II History (Teaching with Historic Places)

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This lesson is part of a series teaching about the World War II home front, with Savannah and Chatham County, Georgia designated as an American World War II Heritage City. The lesson contributes to learners’ understanding of the presence of Armed Forces in Savannah and Chatham County by examining the work of service members and civilians at Hunter Airfield. The lesson includes background reading, excerpt of a unit yearbook, and letters from a service member stationed there.

During World War II, opportunities for women expanded, including in the military. The Coast Guard, like other branches, created a women’s reserve known as the SPARS in 1942. Thousands of women from across the United States enlisted. They went through basic training and then were stationed on the home front to “free a man up to fight.” This lesson focuses on women's experiences in the Coast Guard during World War II, in training and during their service.   

This a series of lesson plans about the WWII home front, focused on Pascagoula, Mississippi, as an American World War II Heritage City. The lessons contain photographs, readings, and primary sources, with optional extension activities. The lessons highlight specific contributions (such as manufacturing, labor organizing, local volunteer efforts and civil defense organization). The lessons also connect to larger themes and understandings of the US home front during wartime.

The four lessons support the understanding of the significance of Pascagoula, Mississippi, designated as an American World War II Heritage City. Highlights include contributions to the wartime industry and workforce, such as with the large presence of the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation, and volunteerism and contributions made by many civilians and service members. The lessons highlight specific contributions and connect to larger themes of the U.S. home front during wartime

This lesson is part of a series about the World War II home front, with Pascagoula, Mississippi designated as an American World War II Heritage City. The lesson contains primary source readings and photographs to contribute to learners’ understandings about the civilian defense and volunteer contributions of Pascagoula community members. Efforts included sharing information about air raids and safety, organizing civilian defense corps training, and a harbor patrol.

This lesson is part of a series about the World War II home front, with Pascagoula, Mississippi designated as an American World War II Heritage City. The lesson contains primary sources about volunteerism and contributions of civilians at the home front in Pascagoula, such as children volunteering in the Junior Red Cross, local war fund drives, and victory gardens. The lesson closes with a reading about a recreation site built by the Civilian Conservation Corps for servicemen

This lesson is part of a series about the World War II home front and Pascagoula, Mississippi designated as an American World War II Heritage City. The lesson contains primary sources, including media literacy questions, and a culminating mastery project. The culminating project provides an opportunity to combine themes from the three other lessons in the Pascagoula collection. This is to summarize the city’s contributions and connections to the overall U.S. home front.

This lesson is part of a series about the World War II home front, and Pascagoula, Mississippi a designated American World War II Heritage City. The lesson contains primary sources about the development of the home front city connected to the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation. The lesson contains readings to learn about the growth in the labor force and its impacts in the area. These impacts include both benefits and challenges, including labor challenges that led to a strike.

The lesson is based on the Floyd Bennett Field Historic District, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Learn about the vital role played by naval aviators delivering aircraft to combat-bound units in the Pacific during WWII, and the women workers on the home front who helped in one of U.S. history's greatest industrial feats