NHD Projects due today! I will collect your project, process paper, and annotated bibliography.
After taking a look at some of the work you have done for NHD in the past few months, we returned to our discussion of WWII. Particularly, the impact of the war on the homefront. The war united Americans in a way never seen before or since, opened new opportunities for women and people of color, and saw nearly all Americans participate in the war effort in some way. We introduced this concept today by examining some school yearbooks from Seymour and Northeast Wisconsin which proves to be great primary source evidence to show how people from this area contributed to the war effort.
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| launching of the SS Peto on the Manitowoc River courtesy Wisconsin Maritime Museum |
As we culminate our study of WWII, today we examined the story of the Navajo Code Talkers in the pacific theater in WWII. One of the ironies of the second World War was the fact that the United States sent its sons both east and west to liberate millions from the tyranny of senseless racist philosophies, while at the same time struggling with our own legacy of racism and discrimination.
To illuminate this fact, we discussed the history of the Navajo people, how the Navajo code worked, and the patriotism of the Navajo despite facing discrimination and a legacy of racist policies. For further information, check out the following links:
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| Codetalker photo courtesy bingaman.senate.gov |
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