"We Had to Be So Careful"A German Farmer's Recollections of Anti-German Sentiment in World War
12: Imperialism/World War I
Anti-German Broadside
From the Library of Congress
"Please, Let Me Put Him in a Macaroni Box" The Spanish Influenza of 1918 in Philadelphia
Shocked by the scale of the influenza outbreak, none could fathom the lack of respect shown for those who had died
The Economic Consequences of the Peace: John Maynard Keynes
Keynes attended the Versailles Conference as a delegate of the British Treasury and argued for a much more generous peace. It was a best seller throughout the world and was critical in establishing a general opinion that the Versailles Treaty was a "Carthaginian peace". It helped to consolidate American public opinion against the treaty and involvement in the League of Nations. The perception by much of the British public that Germany had been treated unfairly in turn was a crucial factor in public support for appeasement.
Woodrow Wilson -- "This is War"
War Message to Congress April 2, 1917
American Posters of World War One
The American Experience - Influenza 1918
Companion site for American Experience documentary. Includes timeline and extra information of people and events in film
Bisbee Deportation of 1917
The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 was an event specific to Arizona that influenced the labor movement throughout the United States. What started as a labor dispute between copper mining companies and their workers turned into vigilante action against the allegedly nefarious activities of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.). This site is a research-based collection of primary and secondary sources for the study of the deportation of over 1,000 striking miners from Bisbee on 12 July, 1917
World War I Letters
Letters from Lloyd Maywood Staley to his sweetheart Mary Beatrice Gray (my grandmother, of course!). They were all written during World War One
Stories from the Veterans History Project - World War I: The Great War (Library of Congress)
Written accounts from soldiers in letters, diaries, and memoirs, as well as precious collections of photographs from the Library of Congress.
NPR : The Middle East and the West: WWI and Beyond
Schenck v. United States
BibliOdyssey: Dogs of War
Satirical maps of europe on the eve of World War I, a combination of cartography and political cartoon
The Battle of Verdun 1916 - the greatest battle ever
Ultra-detailed site concerning just the Battle of Verdun
American Experience . Influenza 1918 | PBS
The worst epidemic in American history killed over 600,000 Americans during World War I. Nicknamed "Spanish influenza," it died out quickly the following winter. Companion site for American Experience documentary. Includes timeline and extra information of people and events in film
Postwar Disillusionment and the Quest for Peace, 1921-1929 | EDSITEment
Through an examination of memoirs, photographs, and other primary source documents, students will examine the rise of antiwar sentiment in the United States, as well as some of the concrete measures taken during the 1920s to prevent the outbreak of future wars.
Lesson 1: The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations: League of Nations Basics | EDSITEment
In this lesson, students read the words and listen to the voices of some central participants in the debate over the League of Nations.
African-American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd Divisions | EDSITEment
Why were African Americans so willing to fight, considering the discrimination they faced at home? How were African Americans in combat affected by prejudice in American society?
African-American Soldiers After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed? | EDSITEment
In this lesson, students view archival photographs, combine their efforts to comb through a database of more than 2,000 archival newspaper accounts about race relations in the United States, and read newspaper articles written from different points of view about post-war riots in Chicago.
Edith Wharton: War Correspondent | EDSITEment
In this lesson, students will learn how the field of war correspondence has evolved. Through reading chapters of Edith Wharton's book, Fighting France, From Dunkerque to Belfort, they will explore an American correspondent's experiences during World War I. Students will then create and present their own correspondence report.
Lesson 1: The Origins of "Wilsonianism" | EDSITEment
Using a variety of primary sources, this lesson analyzes the sources of the foreign policy that came to be known as Wilsonianism and guides students to compare it with important traditions in American foreign policy.
Lesson 1: United States Entry into World War I: Two Diametrically Opposed Views | EDSITEment
In this lesson, students analyze two quotes to complete a Venn Diagram of reasons for and reasons against the US entry into World War I
Lesson 2. The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations: Disagreement Over the League | EDSITEment
In this lesson, students read the words and listen to the voices of some central participants in the debate over the League of Nations.
Lesson 4: Fighting for Peace: The Fate of Wilson's Fourteen Points | EDSITEment
Through the use of primary source documents and maps, this lesson will introduce students to Wilson's Fourteen Points, as well as his efforts to have them incorporated into the final peace treaties.
America at War: World War I: Digital History
This chapter examines the war's causes, the reasons why the United States intervened in the conflict, how American industry was mobilized for war, wartime propaganda and political repression, and the social changes and unrest produced by the war.
WW1 - Hell in the trenches - Color Film World War I combat
Archive of color film from World War I. This 6 minute video can be used before or after class as part of a lesson focusing on the advance of weaponry, the cost of the war. Viewing this through the lens of the "End of the Enlightenment" can bring more to the film than the simple message that the industrial age advanced the ways in which men could kill each other.
World War I Continues to Have Relevance 100 Years Later - SPIEGEL ONLINE
The German magazine Der Spiegel's take on World War I's importance today. Great way to look at the importance of the war through modern eyes instead of teaching the same 'ol causes of the war lesson that have been molding in file cabinets for the last 50 years
America's Greatest Blunder
A contrarian view of the war claims that had America not entered the war, the two sides would have thoroughly exhausted each other, leaving no victor to saddle the vanquished with an oppressive treaty. Worth a quick look at the first page for summary of author's arguments. Perhaps worth a read to flesh out causes for American involvement in the War.
First world war: 15 legacies still with us today | World news | theguardian.com
If you need to impress upon students the necessity of studying World War I, this list should provide the foundation to a rather persuasive argument. However, cutting and pasting the list into a PowerPoint that you're going to talk through will accomplish absolutely nothing.
BBC News - World War One: 10 interpretations of who started WW1
The Causes of World War I lesson has been done perhaps more than any other lesson, except perhaps the Constitutional Convention. Yet in a World Studies or History course it's a staple lesson, this provides a brief overview of ten different explanations. Why not throw them into a "final four" bracket and set the students free to find support for them.? This helps with a Treaty of Versailles lesson as well.