Matt Basso, associate professor of History and Gender Studies at the University of Utah, is wrapping up a nearly five-year project with the National Park Service (NPS) that provides new resources for understanding the World War II home front, one of the most remarkable periods in our nation’s history. Basso led a team of twelve graduate students and five undergraduate students who received stipends to undertake research in support of this major public history project. “Discovering these histories has been really exciting for students,” says Basso, “because while they all know the Rosie the Riveter story, very few people think about everything else that was happening on the home front while the soldiers were overseas.”