81st U.S. Infantry Regiment, 1944 (National Archives)Painting insignia on airplane wings (Library of Congress)Canned foord at home (Library of Congress)

Worcester WWII Homefront Project

Students enrolled in "Public History & Memory" created some public history of their own. For their final project, students conducted oral histories with individuals who lived and/or worked in Worcester, Massachusetts during the Second World War. The students supplemented this interview material with research in archival resources to produce a web page about the Worcester homefront. Feel free to browse the student website, peruse the interview archive and learn about life in a central Massachusetts city in the early 1940s.

Worcester Homefront (Spring 2002)

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