The collection contains research materials, administrative files, audiotape interviews, and film reels from a project by the USC Department of History for a book and PBS television special entitled The Homefront : America during World War II, compiled by Mark Jonathan Harris, Franklin D. Mitchell, and Steven J. Schechter. The book was published in 1984, and the show was broadcast in 1985. The project was a collection of first-person accounts of ordinary citizens describing their experiences during the War.

In the 1980s, members of USC's History Department and the School of Cinematic Arts collaborated to produce the book The Homefront: America during World War II (copyright 1984) followed by a PBS ninety-minute television special of the same title (aired 1985). Led by professors Mark Jonathan Harris, Franklin D. Mitchell, and Steven J. Schechter, the two departments researched the massive social changes that occurred in the U.S. as a result of America's mobilization in World War II. The material focuses on the time period from 1941-1945 and culminates in a collection of first-person accounts in which ordinary citizens describe their experiences and the impact the war had on their lives. The book includes many illustrations and photographs as well as a foreword by Studs Terkel.

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