After the grueling hardship of both the Great Depression and WWI, citizens of the United States leaned toward isolationism and non-involvement in international politics. But all that would end just two weeks before Christmas 1941 when the Japanese bombed an American base in the U.S. Territory of Hawaii. WWII had begun. While communities on the American homefront did not suffer direct confrontation with the enemy, the years that stretched between December 1941 and the end of the war in 1945 did result in ordeals that reshaped how people thought about their neighbors, themselves, and their...