Teaching With Documents: Posters from the Food Administration During World War I
12: Imperialism/World War I
Awake! America. Object lessons and warnings : Hornaday, William T. (William Temple),1918
This book is an example of racism and anti-German sentiment in the United States in 1918. Could be used by teachers for DBQs, quotes or just a "Do Now" where students try to find good quotes themselves. Give students five minutes and this book, just to skim around and share quotes with the rest of the class as an introduction to a lesson
Letter from Ida B. Wells to President Wilson
Would your students believe that the President of the United States wrote an order to black officers and soldiers to stay away from public places where their presence was resented? If you believe that - do you teach it? This letter from Ida B Wells might be the vehicle to do that
1917: “It Has No Popular Support”: Robert M. La Follette Votes Against a Declaration of War
“The Black Man’s Burden”: A Response to Kipling
"A Crowd of Howling Negroes": The Chicago Daily Tribune Race Riot, 1919
The Chicago Daily Tribune, long considered the most antagonistic of all the city's papers toward African Americans, detailed the day's violence, the good deeds of white policemen who were sent to Chicago's South Side, and the injuries they sustained at the hands of black rioters.
Woodrow Wilson
Companion site for American Experience documentary. Includes timeline and extra information of people and events in film
Woodrow Wilson House Museum
Articles, links and resources
The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
"Let Us Reason Together": W. E. B. Du Bois Defends Black Resistance
In an editorial immediately following the Chicago race riot of 1919, Crisis editor W. E. B. Du Bois argued in favor of acts of self-defense and armed resistance, despite the editorial's conciliatory title, "Let Us Reason Together."
Calendar Girls of 1918
All twelve months of a celebrity calendar to give insight into "celebrity" culture in 1918. Consider also that this was published during World War I
The Invisible Boardwalk Empire - The Ku Klux Klan in Monmouth County in the 1920s
Instead of leading students through an exploration of the post-World War I intolerance in the distant and abstract, why not focus their exploration through local experience? This article examines the period through the towns of New Jersey, places these students have seen on their tips down the shore.
The Price of Freedom: Americans at War
Interactive site from Smithsonian. Helpful in comparing experience in many wars
The Debate in the US over the League of Nations: Voices of Consent and Dissent
In this lesson, students read the words and listen to the voices of some central participants in the debate over the League of Nations. This debate touches on issues the US continues to face; collective security versus national sovereignty, idealism versus pragmatism, the responsibilities of powerful nations, and the use of force to accomplish idealistic goals.
The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles
EDSITEment - Lesson Plan including 1. Motives for the Treaty: the Trauma of World War I, 2. Drawing Up the Treaty: France and the United States, 3. Optional activity: A Treaty of the Victors, 4. The Terms of the Treaty, 5. The German Response
World War One Color Photos
First World War.com - A multimedia history of World War One
A multimedia history of World War I. Great resource for maps, battle lists, weaponry and who's who. But be advised that the owner of the site advises visitors that the site not be used for academic purposes
Theodore Roosevelt on Film
Woodrow Wilson - Biography
from the official site of the Nobel Peace Prize
1915: William Jennings Bryan, Protest Over the Sinking of the Lusitania
1916: Woodrow Wilson: Peace Without Victory
Trenches on the Web - Special: BLACK YANKEE: An Interview with Thomas Davis, First World War Veteran
African American Odyssey: World War I and Postwar Society (Part 1)
Article and links to primary documents from the Library of Congress
America's Turn From Neutrality to Intervention, 1914-1917
Article from the Great War Society
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The Montana Sedition Project
Imagine meeting some friends at your local brewpub or coffee shop. The talk turns to the war. You criticize the President and his wealthy supporters. Next thing you know, a couple of husky fellows at the next table grab you, hustle you out the door and down to the local police station. You are arrested on a charge of sedition. Within months you are indicted, tried and convicted. The judge sentences you to 5-10 years in prison -- and off you go!
World War I - Notes
University of Oregon cyberschool online textbook site
"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier": Singing Against the War
"Get the Rope!" Anti-German Violence in World War I-era Wisconsin
In a statement made on October 22, 1918, John Deml, a farmer in Outagamie County, a heavily German and Scandinavian area of Wisconsin, described the nativist mob that had visited him two days earlier.
Victory on the Menu: Recipes and Rationing
Contributed by readers, this "month's worth of recipes" printed in August 1917 demonstrated conservation in action, as well as women's ingenuity in redesigning menus to observe rationing guidelines.
Housewives in Uniform: Domesticity as Military Duty
Presenting domestic work as patriotic effort, this U.S. Food Administration campaign in Good Housekeeping offered women a membership shield and even provided instructions for sewing a "patriotic" housekeeping uniform.