Teaching with Primary Sources

The Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities

Using the Library of Congress to Advantage to Study

 

Manhattan Project

Kate Gibson and Angela Wilson

 

For the Student

Bono, Sam. The National Atomic Museum: America's museum resource for nuclear science and history. Virginia Beach, VA, Donning Co. Publishers, c2002. 64 p.
   QC773.3.U5B66 2002

Hughes, Jeff. The Manhattan Project: big science and the atom bomb. New York, Columbia University Press, c2002. 170 p.
   QC773.3.U5H84 2002

Maddox, Robert James. Weapons for victory: the Hiroshima decision. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 2004, c1995. 215p.
   D767.25.H6M23 2004

Making and using the atomic bomb. Edited by Mark McKain. San Diego, CA, Greenhaven Press, 2003. 240 p.
   Bibliography: p. 232-234.
   QC773.3.U5M23 2003

Newman, Robert. Enola Gay and the court of history. New York, P. Lang, 2004. 201 p.
   Bibliography: p.185-194.
   D767.25.H6N48 2005

Norris, Robert S. Racing for the bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's indispensable man. South Royalton, VT, Steerforth Press, c2002. 722 p.
   Bibliography: p. 559-683.
   UG128.G76N67 2002

Stewart, Irvin. Organizing scientific research for war. Foreword by Vannevar Bush. New York, Arno Press, 1980, c1948. 358 p.
   Q180.U5S8 1980
   “Reprint of the ed. published by Little, Brown, Boston, in the series Science in World War II: Office of Scientific Research and Development.”

 

Historical Background

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For the Teacher

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