Lesson plans designed for middle school and high school teachers to help students understand wartime experiences as well as the lasting legacies of the First World War.
Developed in partnership with the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission, the Pritzker Military Library & Museum, and the National Cemetery Administration.
Immigrants
Alien Enemies Detained: German Americans in World War I
English Only: A Wartime Necessity or an Act of Intolerance?
Civic Obligations and Propaganda
“I Didn’t Raise My Boy To Be a . . . ” Mothers, Music, and Obligations of War
Baseball: Patriotism and Civic Duty
Mobilizing the Masses: Propaganda on the Home Front During World War I
Conscientious Objectors of World War I
Soldiers’ Experiences
In Their Boots: Understanding the Effects of Trench Warfare
The Ethics of Shell Shock Treatment: A Socratic Seminar in History and Psychology
Coming Home: The Doughboys Return to Civilian Life
The Bonus Army and the Election of 1932
Women’s Experiences
Women on the Front Lines: American Nurses in World War I
Female Service Members of World War I: Their Story
Suffragists Unite!
Music and Poetry of World War I
Poetry of World War I
How They Write about The Fight: American Soldier-Poets Since World War I
Jazz: The Harlem Hellfighter’s Gift to the World
Memorializing the War
Memories from the Great War: Art, Letters, and the Collective Memory
War Memorials Abroad: Foreign Memorialization of the Great War
War Memorials At Home: Constructing the Legacy of the Great War
From Armistice Day to Veterans Day: America’s Decision to Change a Worldwide Holiday
Peace
Waging Peace: International Peacekeeping After World War I
Versailles to Vietnam: The Long-Term Effects of the Peace Process
Social Injustice
What is Genocide: Analyzing the Armenian Massacres of World War I
We Return Fighting: Mapping the Experiences of African American Soldiers After World War I
Social Injustice in Hawaiʻi
Legacies of the War
How World War I Changed the World: Analyzing the Geographic Impact of the Great War
The Rise to Power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis
