Julie's US History Blog

The Harvard Seminar we watched in class this week showed how difficult it can be to apply the freedom speech and determine its limits. In t...

I chose to read Larry Heinemann’s story because he’s a Vietnam veteran and after completing the project about Vietnam I wanted to hear a vet...

Mike Lefevre, a steelworker, said about his work that, “You’re mass producing things and you never see the end result of it. I worked for a...

It was interesting when Dennis Hart said, “Freedom is the most important thing in your life. We’re facing an enemy today that’s gonna annih...

Ota brought up an interesting point when he said about school in the internment camps, “One of our basic subjects was American history. The...

One quote from Peggy that struck me is when she said, “We were gonna reach the end of the rainbow. When the war ended, the rainbow vanished...

The idea of a disconnect between the homefront and soldiers in the war interested me. In the introduction, Terkel wrote, “children on the h...