NHD 2019: U.S. History 20th Century Through WWII

Last Updated on August 28, 2018

The Jungle and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

• Chicago meat packing primary sources
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• Topics in Chronicling America – Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 timeline & select newspaper articles
• More 1906 historical newspaper coverage of the Pure Food and Drug Act
• Upton Sinclair Jungle 1906 historical newspaper coverage
• The Determinants of Progressive Era Reform. The Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906 2004
• The Pure Food and Drug Act US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives
• The 1906 Food and Drugs Act and Its Enforcement FDA

Ford Motor Company’s Assembly Line: A Triumph for Capitalism

• Today in History: Henry Ford
• Ford Motor assembly line primary sources
• Ford Motor Company historical newspaper coverage 1900-1919
• Ford Motor Company historical newspaper coverage from 1920

Alice Paul and the Woman Suffrage Movement

• Today in History: Alice Paul
• Primary Source Spotlight: Woman Suffrage
• Primary Source Learning: Women’s Road to the Vote

Executive Order 8802: Security over Civil Liberties

• Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941) National Archives
• Executive Order 8802 historical newspaper coverage
• A. Philip Randolph to NAACP Secretary Walter White March 18, 1941
• “Why Should We March?” March on Washington fliers 1941
• Civil rights leader and labor activist A. Philip Randolph relates an Oval Office encounter in 1941
• Primary Source Spotlight: A. Philip Randolph

The Creation of the Atomic Bomb: Scientific Triumph or Human Tragedy?

• Today in History: Nuclear Fission
• Atomic bomb primary sources
• Atomic bomb historical newspaper coverage 1940-46
• atomicarchive.com archived website
• Manhattan Project historical newspaper coverage 1945-59
• Who Was the Man Behind the Manhattan Project? Library of Congress Information Bulletin May 15, 1995

D-Day: Triumph Despite Tragedy

• Today in History: D-Day
• World War II teaching & learning resources

The Great Raid on Camp Cabanatuan

• Cabanatuan historical newspaper coverage
• Cabanatuan veterans oral histories
• Collection Spotlight: George Washington Pearcy Folklife Today February 23, 2016
• Rare Survivor of Pacific War Library of Congress Blog May 30, 2016
• Remember ‘The Great Raid’ of 1945 (Opinion) CNN