Classroom Materials

In an era of federal segregation, the national call as "champions of the rights of mankind" rang hollow. Many African Americans saw the war as an opportunity to redefine their U.S. citizenship and...

World War One resulted in radical changes to national boundaries. Professor David Stevenson, London School of Economics & Political Science, explains the changes that took place in Europe's...

Using the maps provided, students will identify the alliances of 1914 and answer questions about borders in the Middle East as result of the war.

How are art and history related? How did the culture of pre-war Europe influence painter Marsden Hartley's work? In this lesson, students will learn about the origins of the Great War and how to...

During the war, the U.S. Army mobilized medical resources to create one hundred large base hospitals. This website has been created to tell the story of Base Hospital #28, the 2,500 bed military base...

This 9 1/2 minute video from The Great War Channel explains the internal struggles and revolution affecting neutral Mexico during World War I, and how Germany's stance against the United States...

In this resource, students explore a virtual exhibit on medicine during the First World War. Health and fitness were central to building a strong military force, and sick and wounded soldiers required...

The following PDFs are the full transcripts of three videos used within the National WWI Museum and Memorial's Main Gallery. Use the script from the video as reference for an onsite field trip, or as...

This active-learning lesson helps students learn more about World War I and the modern Middle East, through research and an activity creating their own exhibition for a Museum of the Middle East in...

Illustrations from historic newspapers in the collections of the Library of Congress detail events of the First World War alongside other news of the day.This online collection is drawn from the...

On Nov. 11, 1918, after more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. Although fighting continued elsewhere, the armistice...

This blog series from the National Museum of American History focuses on interesting stories and objects in the collection, including a wide range of posts related to World War I, including fashion...

Despite President Woodrow Wilson's request that Americans remain "neutral in thought and in action," ordinary people responded actively during the first two years of the Great War. During the National...

This article by Joachim Schröder and Alexander Watson studies Germany's experiences of occupation during and after the First World War. It highlights how German experiences contributed to fueling a...

These interviews, recorded between 1978 and 1980, allowed surviving veterans of the First World War to share their experiences, in their own words. The recordings, including several from African...