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We Can Do It!: Sources for Understanding American Women and World War II

We Can Do It!: Sources for Understanding American Women and World War II. Our Local Primary Materials: . College Archives: college newspapers, scrapbooks, yearbooks, alumni publications, and files on college presidents

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We Can Do It!: Sources for Understanding American Women and World War II

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  1. We Can Do It!: Sources for Understanding American Women and World War II

  2. Our Local Primary Materials: • College Archives: college newspapers, scrapbooks, yearbooks, alumni publications, and files on college presidents • Rockford Public Library Local History Room: materials related to local USOs and relief efforts in the city of Rockford • Interviews with college alumnae • Materials donated by college alumnae: scrapbooks, journals, photographs, and letters

  3. What students learn from primary sources in the classroom: • Research strategies • Interview skills • Textual analysis • Local history • Community building • Historical context

  4. Pauline Revere in Times Square

  5. Photos from the Chicago Tribune

  6. Counting Points

  7. War work at Woodward Governor

  8. LOC link on working women: • Good Work, Sister!

  9. Rockford College Victory Garden

  10. LOC link on Victory Gardens: • War gardens

  11. War Bond Ad from RC newspaper

  12. War Bond Cartoon from RC paper

  13. LOC link on War Bonds: • War bond and stamps

  14. Women in the Military

  15. LOC links for women’s service: • Women in the Service • Oral histories

  16. Sample Scrapbook Pages

  17. Rockford College Women in WWII Website: http://www.Weareacollegeatwar.org

  18. Session Evaluation Please answer the following four questions after your session on the card provided by the presenter. Please write your name on the back of the card so it may be entered in the drawing. The presenters will not be given the actual cards with your name but instead a report of feedback for their sessions. Thank you. 1. On a scale of 1-5 (highest), how would you rate this session? 2. What did you find useful about this session? 3. Do you have any suggestions for how this session could have been improved? 4. Is there anything else that you would like to learn about this topic?

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