The Authentic History Center: World War II
Fogonazos: Hiroshima, the pictures they didn't want us to see
The American occupation forces imposed strict censorship on Japan, prohibiting anything "that might, directly or by inference, disturb public tranquility" and used it to prohibit all pictures of the bombed cities. The pictures remained classified 'top secret' for many years. Some of the images have been published later by different means, but it's not usual to see them all together
Dorothea Lange and the Relocation of the Japanese
Photographs of the location from famous photographer
Remembering Nagasaki
Articles, images and commemorations from Exploratarium
Dr. Seuss Went to War
Examines Seuss's political views shaped by World War II and illustrated in his cartoons.
GI -- World War II images
This collection of photographs from the National Archives provides a pictoral history of a select group of events from World War II
Japanese American Internment - Smithsonian Education
Online exhibit of materials from the Smithsonian Institute
Hiroshima, 64 years ago - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Series of high quality images documenting the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Targeted for military reasons and for its terrain (flat for easier assessment of the aftermath), Hiroshima was home to approximately 250,000 people at the time of the bombing.
Remembering D-Day, 66 years ago
Great collection of photographs from - The Big Picture - Boston.com
World War I and II War Posters and Postcards
Over 5,000 postcards and posters that are multi-national in scope and cover veterans' benefits, war bonds and loans, military recruitment and morale, civil defense, industrial production, freedom and loyalty campaigns, international welfare organizations, prices and rationing, transportation, health and safety, labor organizations, films and theatre, food production, sports and leisure, recruiting of women in military and non-combatant organizations, special events, anti-war movements, and other topics
Independent Lens . THE POLITICAL DR. SEUSS | PBS
Dr. Suess also made political cartoons that denounced racism, isolationism and other issues of the day - this companion site for a documentary film about his political work includes articles and a gallery of images.
WWII: How Detroit Won The War - Photo Gallery - LIFE
Pearl Harbor, 69 years ago today - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Gallery of pictures of the Pearl Harbor attack, several taken from Japanese planes.
World War II: Before the War - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
Gallery of photographs of events in Europe, Asia and the US prior to World War II.
Historical World War II Pictures - Fold3
80,000 pictures from the National Archives
Japanese American Internment during World War II - Primary Source Set | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress
Library of Congress collection of images and other materials, including analysis tools and guides for teachers
World War II in Color: The Italian Campaign and the Road to Rome | LIFE.com
As much as the pictures alone show students the brutality and destruction of war, the fact that the pictures are in color gives students an immediacy of connection with them. As we live our lives in "living color" seeing these pictures helps one understand that those people of the past whose live we study in history lived through their own lives in the present also and "in living color".
World War II in Photos - The Atlantic
Why not have students review these photos and tie them to themes you provide or have them generate their own themes? Have them choose just 10 from the 900 and explain why their subset best exemplifies the war.
This series of entries was published weekly on TheAtlantic.com from June 19 through October 30, 2011, running every Sunday morning for 20 weeks. In this collection of 900 photos spread over 20 essays, I tried to explore the events of the war, the lives of the people fighting at the front and working back home, and the effects of the trauma on everyday activity.
Legendary photographer Ansel Adams visited a Japanese internment camp in 1943, here’s what he saw - The Washington Post
In 1943, Ansel Adams set out to document life inside the Japanese-American internment camp at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California. It was a departure for Adams, who at the time was known as a landscape photographer and not for social-documentary work. When Adams offered this collection of images to the Library of Congress, he said, “The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair [sic] by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment….All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document, and I trust it can be put to good use.”
The Mystery of the Crying Woman - ActiveHistory
History teachers will almost certainly recognize this photo. They may not know the story behind it. This is a historical thinking/visual history lesson ready to be embedded in World War II content
The Italian Campaign and the Road to Rome in rare color photos, 1943-1945 - Rare Historical Photos
Switch out those old black and white pictures in your slides with these.