Eyewitness to History site on World War II (includes various primary source pages on events and persons in both the European and Pacific Theaters) (http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/w2frm.htm)
Radio Days Commentators and Radio News Events clip page (contains sound clips from various commentators and from various news events). (Note: not all the events listed are from World War II, but several are. Real Player is needed in order to listen to the sound clips online.) (http://www.otr.com/news.shtml)
The Victory Home: A World War II Reference Library includes various personal stories of the World War II home front as well as posters, radio ads from the World War II era, photographs, and more. (http://tvh.bfn.org/sources2.html)
“What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?” includes several first person accounts by women who lived during the World War II era. Stories available include recollections from Civil Defense workers, female baseball players, as well as factory workers during the 1940s. (http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html)
“The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Virginia Fights World War II” (includes various primary sources such as pictures, letters, posters and others) (http://www.vahistory.org/WWII/index.php)
“Stars and Stripes” Remembering World War II page (http://stripes.com/webpages.asp?id=64) Scroll down approximately two-thirds down the page in order to view the World War II Archives links. While these pages and stories do not represent the American homefront, in several instances, they do highlight reporting of events in the US as American servicemen would have read about them.
Google has a custom search you can use. I don't know how readable or complete the images are. I don't know if the articles are searchable beyond the title. They may need to know more about WWII to access this effectively
(i.e. know a specific date/event that they want to see how Williamsport covered the event)
(http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=r5yabEp13iMC&dat=19390527&b_mode=2)
Resources:
Eyewitness to History site on World War II (includes various primary source pages on events and persons in both the European and Pacific Theaters) (http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/w2frm.htm)
D-Day (American Experience) (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/)
Interactive World War II Timeline (http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/WW2Timeline/start.html)
Radio Days Commentators and Radio News Events clip page (contains sound clips from various commentators and from various news events). (Note: not all the events listed are from World War II, but several are. Real Player is needed in order to listen to the sound clips online.)
(http://www.otr.com/news.shtml)
The Victory Home: A World War II Reference Library includes various personal stories of the World War II home front as well as posters, radio ads from the World War II era, photographs, and more. (http://tvh.bfn.org/sources2.html)
On The Homefront (Library of Congress Learning Page) contains a large number of links to various aspects of life at home during the war.
(http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/homefront/resources.html)
“What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?” includes several first person accounts by women who lived during the World War II era. Stories available include recollections from Civil Defense workers, female baseball players, as well as factory workers during the 1940s.
(http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html)
The Authentic History Center World War II Collection (http://www.authentichistory.com/ww2.html)
“The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Virginia Fights World War II” (includes various primary sources such as pictures, letters, posters and others)
(http://www.vahistory.org/WWII/index.php)
World War II Links on the Internet (Comprehensive list of online World War II sites, including several dealing with the homefront)
(http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/ww2_links.html)
“Stars and Stripes” Remembering World War II page (http://stripes.com/webpages.asp?id=64) Scroll down approximately two-thirds down the page in order to view the World War II Archives links. While these pages and stories do not represent the American homefront, in several instances, they do highlight reporting of events in the US as American servicemen would have read about them.
Google has a custom search you can use. I don't know how readable or complete the images are. I don't know if the articles are searchable beyond the title. They may need to know more about WWII to access this effectively
(i.e. know a specific date/event that they want to see how Williamsport covered the event)
(http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=r5yabEp13iMC&dat=19390527&b_mode=2)
Here are the links Jame V. Brown library provides for historical (including the Google one above) (http://lycolibrary.org/p5_historical_archives.html)
World War II articles in the New York Times
(http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/w/world_war_ii_/index.html)