LibGuides: North Carolina's Military History: 1914-1945

WWI (1914-1918)

Image Credit: Josephus Daniels, half-length
portrait, facing right. Photograph by
Harris & Ewing, c1920. Library of Congress,
Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction
Number: LC-USZ62-36747.

Government & Heritage Library Catalog Search
https://tinyurl.com/2p8zu5p6
World War I Collection - NC Digital Collections
https://digital.ncdcr.gov/spotlights/world-war-one
Lesson plans
Grades 10-12: Photographs of the 369th Infantry and African Americans during World War I
Grades 10-12: Sow the Seeds of Victory! Posters from the Food Administration During World War

WWII (1939-1945)

Image Credit: Get war information material at your
public library. Poster Collection. Series VII, Service
and Relief Organizations Posters. US Works Projects
Administration North Carolina Library Project,
State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC.

After the Day of Infamy: "Man on the street" interviews from the American Memory Project (Library of Congress)
This collection presents approximately twelve hours of opinions recorded in the days and months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor from more than two hundred individuals in cities and towns across the United States. Includes “Man on the Street” interviews (audio and transcripts) in Alamance County and Burlington, North Carolina in 1941 and 1942.
Burlington, NC -- December 1941
Alamance County, NC -- January 1942
Government & Heritage Library Catalog Search
https://ghl.nccardinal.org/eg/opac/home
Military-related items in the Black Mountain College Collection
This collection covers the experimental school located in Black Mountain, NC, from 1933 until 1956, its faculty, and students. The newsletters and bulletins in the collection cover topics related to how WWII impacted the school and its students.
https://digital.ncdcr.gov/spotlights/bmc
World War II Collection - NC Digital Collections
https://digital.ncdcr.gov/spotlights/world-war-two
Tuskegee Airmen Fight in WWII
Information and photos from the Smithsonian Institution that chronicle the Tuskegee Institute 99th Fighter Squadron, American’s first black air unit.
http://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/blackwings/tuskegee.cfm

Image Credit: USS North Carolina, docked. (N-85-5-15)
General Negative Collection, State Archives of
North Carolina, Raleigh, NC.

USS North Carolina
This decommissioned battleship now serves as a living memorial to the conflict in the Pacific during WWII.
http://www.battleshipnc.com
- WWII Mountain Memories: Home Front to the Frontline: Testimonies of WWII Veterans and Civilians from Western North Carolina. UNC-Asheville, Ramsey Library Digital collection includes over 100 interviews and about 200 photographs relating the experiences of Asheville and Buncombe County soldiers who fought in World War II. http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/oralhistory/WWII/default_wwii.html