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Welcome to Molly's World 1944: Growing up in World War Two America
Children's book containing primary sources about the World War II home front. Children's literature is one of the most prominent ways that the World War II victory garden is remembered in the post-World War II era. It provides a safe way for authors…
Meet Molly
Children's fiction about a young girl growing up on the home front during the Second World War. Children's literature is one of the most prominent ways that the World War II victory garden is remembered in the post-World War II era. It provides a…
Lilly's Victory Garden
Children's picture book about a girl who tends a victory garden in her neighbor's yard because the wife is too sick to work in the garden. Children's literature is one of the most prominent ways that the World War II victory garden is remembered in…
Jennie's War: The Home Front in World War 2
Story about a girl named Jennie living during World War II. Grows a victory garden. Children's literature is one of the most prominent ways that the World War II victory garden is remembered in the post-World War II era. It provides a safe way for…
My Daddy Was a Soldier
A young girl's father goes to war and she copes with the stress of him being gone. Children's literature is one of the most prominent ways that the World War II victory garden is remembered in the post-World War II era. It provides a safe way for…
Work on a Farm this Summer
Man with a pitchfork and Woman holding a basket of vegetables. This image encourages men and women to participate in increasing the food supply. Men and women are invited to take a break during the summer months to fight the war effort on a different…
Gardening (1940)
Instructional film on how to garden. Propaganda instructional videos told the population what they should be doing to help win the war. This film teaches the population how to properly tend and grow vegetables. It focuses mostly on the children…
Four Freedoms Speech
FDR's address to the nation. This speech emphasizes the role that America plays in bringing freedom and democracy to the world. One of the points is Freedom from want, which is interpreted as freedom from wanting food. The Four Freedoms speech is an…
March 9, 1942- Address on the Ninth Anniversary of the New Deal Farm Program
Talking to farmers and those who consume farm products and tells the American people to help in every way. Roosevelt demonstrates that food is just as important as weapons.
"we can all redirect ourselves to the spirit with which this common effort…
"we can all redirect ourselves to the spirit with which this common effort…
November 26, 1942- Proclamation 2571: Thanksgiving Day
Declared the 4th Thursday of November Thanksgiving Day. Gathering the harvest and the importance of the home front to produce food. Home front gardeners are as important as soldiers.
"In giving thanks for the greatest harvest in the history of our…
"In giving thanks for the greatest harvest in the history of our…