Primary sources for the 7/8

The students on the 7/8 team will be studying Hiroshima. I'm collecting some primary sources for them.

https://sites.google.com/a/ismanila.org/wwii/home/the-war-s-end/hiroshima-nagasaki

http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/beyond-the-textbook/25484

http://www.inicom.com/hibakusha/
Voices from people who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I chose a voice from this site for my kamishibai.

http://atomicbombmuseum.org/6_testimonies.shtml
More voices.

http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/peace/english/survivors/index.html
Voices from Nagasaki

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/mpmenu.asp
This site has authoritative information on the atomic bomb blasts

Last Hiroshima Bomber: "I'll Do It"


Nagasaki
http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/index.html

Photos from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/pages/ww2/ -- WARNING! Some are very disturbing.

Potsdam Conference documents and more (Japan)

Potsdam Conference: U.S. National Archives

Primary Sources from the Manhattan Project -- Gilder Lehrman.org

Secretary of War Henry Stimson to President Truman (Teach History)

Press release from President Truman (Truman Library) Aug. 6, 1945

Leaflet dropped over Japan (Teach History)

Bombing survey (Teach History)

George Washington University: The Atomic Bomb and end of WWII -- primary sources

Worksheet from the Wisconsin Historical Society