America's Home Front Heroes

America's Home Front Heroes
Author: Stacy Enyeart
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2009-10-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0313377901

A new compendium of firsthand reminiscences of life on the American home front during World War II. America's Home Front Heroes: An Oral History of World War II brings together in one rich resource the voices of those whom history often leaves out—the ordinary men, women, and children caught up in an extraordinary time. America's Home Front Heroes is divided into four sections: A Time for Heightened Passion, A Time for Caution and Prejudice, A Time for Flag Waving, and A Time for War Plant Women. The 34 brief oral histories within these sections capture the full diversity of the United States during the war, with contributions coming from men, women, and children of all backgrounds, including Japanese Americans, conscientious objectors, African Americans, housewives, and journalists. A treasure trove for researchers and World War II enthusiasts, this remarkable volume offers members of "the greatest generation" an opportunity to relive their defining era. For those with no direct experience of the period, it's a chance to learn firsthand what it was like living in the United States at a pivotal moment in history.

Engaging Appalachia

Engaging Appalachia
Author: Rebecca Adkins Fletcher
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2023-03-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0813196965

Inclusive campus-community collaborations provide critical opportunities to build community capacity—defined as a community's ability to jointly respond to challenges and opportunities—and sustainability. Through case studies from across all three subregions of Appalachia from Georgia to Pennsylvania, Engaging Appalachia: A Guidebook for Building Capacity and Sustainability offers diverse perspectives and guidance for promoting social change through campus-community relationships from faculty, community members, and student contributors. This volume explores strategies for creating more inclusive and sustainable partnerships through the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. In representing diverse areas, environments, and issues, three relatable themes emerge within a practice viewpoint that is scalable to communities beyond Appalachia: fostering student leadership, asset-building, and needs fulfillment within community engagement. Engaging Appalachia presents collaborative approaches to regional community engagement and offers important lessons in place-based methods for achieving sustainable and just development. Written with practicality in mind, this guidebook embraces hard-earned experiences from decades of work in Appalachia and sets forth new models for building community resilience in a changing world.

Service-Learning

Service-Learning
Author: Mac Bellner
Publisher: University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2005-12-30
Genre: Service learning
ISBN: 9780880938624

This volume is an important and timely contribution to the field for it captures the rewards and challenges of service learning from the varied perspectives of faculty dedicated to this type of teaching, and, at the same time, illuminates strategies for campuses and non-profit organizations to adopt to solidify institutional commitment. Increasingly, service learning is valued as a teaching and learning strategy consistent with the democratic ideals of education, and to this end, a better understanding of the faculty role is essential to advancing practice and improving society.

World War II

World War II
Author: Bettendorf High School (Iowa)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2001
Genre: World War, 1939-1945
ISBN:

World War II

World War II
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2004
Genre: Children's writings
ISBN:

Students interviewed someone from the World War II era about their experiences and remembrances.

They Called it the War Effort

They Called it the War Effort
Author: Louis Fairchild
Publisher: Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN:

Tells the story of the transformation of Orange, Texas, from a small agricultural community into a vigorous wartime shipbuilding center during World War II.

A Web

A Web
Author: Andrea K. Mummert
Publisher:
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1996
Genre: Lauban (Germany)
ISBN: