America in the 1930s and 1940s: Challenges at Home. Whenever we think of the 1940s, we probably conjure images of WWII, but life in the United States during the pre-war years and the decade of the 1940s was rich and challenging in many ways. How did we view outsiders? What were the main concerns of the citizens? In trying to escape the horrors of their own country, many refugees found a much different America than they imagined if they even managed to get here. Dr. Tracy Campbell, of the University of Kentucky History Department will shed the light on this critical portion of our history that truly answers the questions asked by the "Americans and the Holocaust" exhibit: What did we do? What did we know? What would you have done?
This lecture is part of the supporting programming for "Americans and the Holocaust," a traveling exhibit from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., in conjunction with the American Library Association.