Send a deserving teacher on an adventure to the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City!
From Aug. 22 to Sept. 8 nominate yourself, a colleague, or any educator who has positively affected the lives of students. Nominations have closed and winners will be announced soon!Education Resources
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DisloyaltyCivil Liberties in America During World War ICreator: National World War I Museum and MemorialPresident Wilson created the Committee on Public Information, Congress passed the Espionage and Sedition Acts, and a patriotic fervor led to public intolerance for persons and ideas considered to be possible threats to the nation. These all garnered support for the war, but allowed for suppression of civil liberties. This lesson for high school and above looks at how American civil liberties were affected by WWI, as well as the difficult question of when it may be acceptable to limit civil rights.Download PDF, Download Accompanying PowerPoint |
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Lessons of Liberty: PatriotismAnalyze WWI Propaganda PostersCreator: National World War I Museum and MemorialThis lesson plan asks students to examine their understanding of "patriotism" by analyzing over 60 primary source propaganda posters that called America to action during World War I.Download PDF |
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Remembering WWIVillanova University Digital History ProjectCreator: Villanova UniversityIn the Fall of 2015, graduate students in the Villanova Digital History course explored these scrapbooks as a form of memory and source of information on varied experiences during the First World War. Each student developed both an article exploring a key topic related to understanding World War I as well as a digital project based on the photos, letters, texts, and other items contained within the primary source scrapbooks.View Online |
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World War I PostersCreator: Library of CongressThis selection of more than 1900 posters created between 1914 and 1920 from the collections of the Library of Congress deal with many aspects of life overseas and on the homefront during the First World War.View Online |
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American Committee for Relief in the Near East: PostersCreator: National World War I Museum and MemorialThis collection of original posters and documents created by the American Committee for Relief in the Near East are part of an early groundswell of humanitarian aid from American citizens during WWI.View Online |
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Propaganda During World War 1Creator: The Great War YouTube ChannelPropaganda existed for many years prior to the start of World War I; however, inventions in media made it easier to reach people on a massive scale. In this 8-minute video, host Indy Neidel with the Great War Channel explores mass propaganda during the war, specifically in Germany, Britain, and the United States. Want to learn more? Follow up with this video about propaganda films to go further in depth.Watch Online |
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Western Front at the CinemaWorld War: Choices and ConsequencesCreator: Facing History and OurselvesThis short article about the 1916 British film Battle of the Somme looks at its effectiveness in stirring public sentiment during the war. From Facing History and Ourselves, this article is part of a larger collection of readings that look into how WWI affected people's attitudes towards war and the value of human life. Discussion questions are included for use in the classroom.Read Online |
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With One VoiceThe American Musical Experience of World War ICreator: National World War I Museum and MemorialIt is easy to forget music's power to sway public opinion. Examining popular music during World War I helps us understand the public's changing sentiments about the war effort from the pacifist song "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" to the rousing war anthem "Over There." This essay by Dr. Kristin Griffeath explores America's various responses to the war through music while also examining how music was used as a propaganda tool to encourage all Americans to do their bit for the war effort.Download PDF |
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How Woodrow Wilson's Propaganda Machine Changed American JournalismCreator: Smithsonian MagazineThe Committee on Public Information, also known as the Creel Committee after chairman George Creel, was created by President Wilson to help control all war related news and promote the war effort at home. This article by Christopher B. Daly from Smithsonian Magazine highlights the various operations of the Creel Committee's propaganda machine that set the example for propaganda's use during later wars.Read Online |
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The Legacy of World War I PropagandaCreator: British LibraryThis short article for the British Library by Jo Fox, professor at Durham University, focuses on post-war reactions to propaganda in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States, explaining how it affected the outlook and propaganda of World War II for these countries. Also included is a 10 ½ minute YouTube video with Professor Fox.Read Online |
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American Leaders SpeakRecordings from World War I and the 1920 ElectionCreator: Library of CongressSound recordings from American leaders from 1918-1920 focus on issues and events surrounding the First World War and the subsequent presidential election of 1920.Listen Online |
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Sedition in World War ICreator: Stanford History Education GroupThe Sedition Act of 1917 limited freedom of speech. President Wilson and Congress claimed political dissent would harm the country's war effort. In this lesson, students consider whether critics of the First World War were anti-American as they read anti-war documents from prominent socialist leaders Eugene Debs and Charles Schenck, as well as excerpts from the Sedition Act and a Supreme Court ruling upholding the act. Download Files |
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Sgt. StubbyEducational Guide, K-5Creator: Fun Academy Media GroupThis activity book, created by Fun Academy Media Group as a companion piece to their animated film Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero includes reading and writing activities, social studies assignments, fun facts and hands-on activities based on the real-life war dog "Sgt. Stubby."Download PDF |
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List of Mothers and Widows of American Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Entitled to Make a Pilgrimage to the War Cemeteries in EuropePilgrimage for the mothers and widows of soldiers, sailors, and marines of the American forcesCreator: Villanova UniversityA full digitization (364 images) of the 1929 Pilgrimage for the Mothers and Widows of Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of the American Forces, an index of Gold Star Mothers and Wives entitled to travel to the war cemeteries in Europe to visit the graves of their loved ones. The book includes names and home cities of the family members, as well as the names, ranks, service information and cemetery location of the fallen soldiers.View Online |
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The Great War and PeaceAn Introduction to Peace-Oriented Remembrance of WWI in Flanders FieldsCreator: Flemish Peace Institute"The peace-oriented tradition in the commemoration of the First World War has a long and complex history. During the inter-war period in Belgium, as in France, it was both veteran organisations and political movements which gave an important impetus to the origin of peace-oriented remembrance rituals and memorials." This essay from Maarten Van Alstein of the Flemish Peace Institute looks at how the First World War led to pacifist movements of war commemoration.Download PDF |
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The United States World War One Centennial Commission and the National World War I Museum and Memorial are dedicated to educating the public about the causes, events and consequences of the conflict and we encourage the use of these resources to better understand the Great War and its enduring impact on the global community.
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