The United States home front during World War II supported the war effort in many ways, including a wide range of volunteer efforts and submitting to government-managed rationing and price controls. T
Service on the Home Front by Louis Hirshman and William Tasker.
Female factory workers bucking rivets during manufacture of an aircraft in 1942, Long Beach, California
Sugar rationing
"This is My Fight Too!" war bond poster, 1942. Hennepin County Library collection.
The history of the United States from 1945 to 1964 was a time of high economic growth and general prosperity. It was also a time of confrontation as the capitalist United States and its allies politic
United States home front during World War II
…United States Home Front 1942–1945 Great Depression Post-war era Service on the Home Front by Louis Hirshman and William Tasker. Location United States Including New Deal Era Second Great Migration President(s…
Martin Luther King, Jr. leads civil rights protestors during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963. The 1950s and 1960s were a time of major social and political changes in the United States.
Gen. MacArthur, UN Command CiC (seated), observes the naval shelling of Incheon from the USS Mt. McKinley, 15 September 1950.
A 1947 booklet published by the Catholic Catechetical Guild Educational Society raising the specter of a Communist takeover
Eisenhower and Gamal Abdel Nasser in New York, 1960