Traveling trunks for teaching World War II and the Cold War
Library of Congress Veterans History Project
The World War II Trunk
Created from donated funds, the World War II trunk
contains objects, documents, maps, photographs, and audio-visual materials
designed to teach students about the war in the European theatre, the
Pacific theatre, and the home front. Here you can find ration stamps,
videos, period magazines, uniforms and big band music--even a dummy M-1
clip.
For a list of the contents of this trunk, click here.
For a sample lesson plan from this trunk, click
here.
In the Spring of 2007, the Center for Public History received a Georgia Humanities Council grant to create a second traveling trunk. This trunk focuses on five major events from the Cold War era: the Berlin Airlift, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the fall of the Soviet Union. With vintage artifacts, documents, photographs, and audio-visual materials, teachers can bring the Cold War era to life in their classrooms.
For a list of the contents of this trunk, click here.
For a sample classroom activity from the trunk, click here.
These
trunks are produced in part by a grant from the Georgia Humanities council
through the appropriation of the Georgia General Assembly. The Center for
Public History is grateful for additional funding provided by the Kiwanis
Club of Carrollton, the Carrollton Golden K Club, Carrollton AmVets, Dr.
Mac Martin, the Carroll County Genealogical Society, the Bremen AmVets,
and Mr. George Wheeless.