This course examines social and cultural changes on the U.S. home front during the Second World War. Through primary documents including memoirs, fiction, oral histories, photographs, and films, as well as historical analyses, we will explore how different Americans understood and experienced World War II. We will pay particular attention to the racial, ethnic, class, gender, sexual, and regional relations engendered, consolidated, and unsettled during the war. Themes include mobilization for war; the politics and impact of propaganda; efforts to boost morale; women and the war effort; the internment of Japanese-Americans; African-Americans' fight for racial justice; the decision to use the atomic bomb and responses to its use; confronting the Holocaust; and World War II and historical memory. Evaluation will be based on class participation, three short essays (5-7 pages), and a final exam. Group A