New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations
After the Day of Infamy 
This site from the Library of Congress features audio files with transcripts of opinions and reactions recorded in the days and months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor from over two hundred individuals in cities and towns across the United States. It is searchable by name, subject, and geographic location.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: Yes
Social Studies: History
Curriculum Standard 16
Students will demonstrate the ability to employ historical analysis, interpretation, and comprehension to make reasoned judgments and to gain an understanding, perspective, and appreciation of history and its uses in contemporary situations.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding that people, artifacts, and documents represent links to the past and that they are sources of data from which historical accounts are constructed.
- Display historical perspective by describing the past through the eyes and experiences of those who were there, as related through their memories, literature, diaries, letters, debates, arts, maps, and artifacts.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
- Analyze historical documents, artifacts, and other materials for credibility, relevance, and point of view.
- Examine historical materials relating to a particular region, society, or theme; analyze change over time; and make logical inferences concerning cause and effect.
Curriculum Standard 17
Students will demonstrate a knowledge of the chronology and significance of the unfolding story of America including the history of their community, New Hampshire, and the United States.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade twelve students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of major topics in the study of World War II and the Cold War (1939-1961) including the causes, conduct, course, and aftermath of World War II; effects of the war on the homefront; the emergence of the United States as a superpower; the origins of the Cold War; and postwar political developments at home and abroad.
