Los Alamos County, NM, WWII Heritage City Lessons

This lesson is part of a series teaching about the World War II home front in Los Alamos County, New Mexico designated as an American World War II Heritage City. The lesson contains primary sources, a secondary source, and pictures. The sources provide insight on Native American contributions to the

How the government took a New Mexico mesa, closed its school and displaced its homesteaders to build the bomb — told through the land, a homesteader's granddaughter and a soldier.