Digital Collections

After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor [online]. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2002 [cited 18 January 2003]. Available from: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afcphhtml/afcphhome.html.
Select Browse: "Geographic Locations." The "Tennessee - Nashville" section includes audio and transcripts of statements by about 40 men and women. Fisk University's Charles S. Johnson, along with Lewis Jones, conducted the Tennessee interviews.

Color Photographs from the FSA and OWI [online]. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1998. Available from: http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/fsachtml/fsowhome.html.
Over 1600 photographs from the Office of War Information (OWI) and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) document the crucial work of American women during World War II. The photograph at left shows a woman working at the Vultee Nashville plant in 1943. Access additional photos of women at the plant by connecting to the site and entering Vultee as a search term.

Middle Tennessee Oral History Project [online]. Murfreesboro: Albert Gore Research Center, Middle Tennessee State University, n.d. [cited 23 May 2002]. Available from: http://janus.mtsu.edu/history/excerpts.htm.
Includes excerpts from oral history interviews with World War II veterans.

Guides to Archival Collections

• Oral History Collections, UT-Martin
• Veterans History Project [Library of Congress; see State Partners: Tennessee]
• World War II Collection [UT-Knoxville; several finding aids]
• World War II Resource [Albert A. Gore, Sr., Research Center, MTSU]

Selected Books & Articles

Toplovich, Ann. "The Tennessean's War: Life on the Home Front." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 51 (Spring 1991): 19-50.
Oral history interviews.

Wells, Ann Harwell, comp. and ed. Always in My Heart: The World War II Letters of Ann & Coleman Harwell. Franklin, Tenn.: Hillsboro Press, 2000.