{"id":9749,"date":"2026-08-04T19:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nhd.org\/?page_id=9749"},"modified":"2026-08-05T19:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:29:18","slug":"great-war-flawed-peace-lesson-plans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nhd.org\/en\/great-war-flawed-peace-lesson-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Great War, Flawed Peace Lesson Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n\n

Developed in partnership with the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission, the Pritzker Military Library & Museum, and the National Cemetery Administration.<\/p>\n\n

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Immigrants<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Alien Enemies Detained: German Americans in World War I<\/p>\n\n\n

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English Only: A Wartime Necessity or an Act of Intolerance?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Civic Obligations and Propaganda<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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\u201cI Didn\u2019t Raise My Boy To Be a . . . \u201d Mothers, Music, and Obligations of War<\/p>\n\n\n

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Baseball: Patriotism and Civic Duty<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mobilizing the Masses: Propaganda on the Home Front During World War I<\/p>\n\n\n

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Conscientious Objectors of World War I<\/p>\n\n\n

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Soldiers’ Experiences<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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In Their Boots: Understanding the Effects of Trench Warfare<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Ethics of Shell Shock Treatment: A Socratic Seminar in History and Psychology<\/p>\n\n\n

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Coming Home: The Doughboys Return to Civilian Life<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Bonus Army and the Election of 1932<\/p>\n\n\n

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Women’s Experiences<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Women on the Front Lines: American Nurses in World War I<\/p>\n\n\n

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Female Service Members of World War I: Their Story<\/p>\n\n\n

Download Lesson here<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Suffragists Unite!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Music and Poetry of World War I<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Poetry of World War I<\/p>\n\n\n

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How They Write about The Fight: American Soldier-Poets Since World War I<\/p>\n\n\n

Download Lesson here<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Jazz: The Harlem Hellfighter\u2019s Gift to the World<\/p>\n\n\n

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Memorializing the War<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Memories from the Great War: Art, Letters, and the Collective Memory<\/p>\n\n\n

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War Memorials Abroad: Foreign Memorialization of the Great War<\/p>\n\n\n

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War Memorials At Home: Constructing the Legacy of the Great War<\/p>\n\n\n

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From Armistice Day to Veterans Day: America\u2019s Decision to Change a Worldwide Holiday<\/p>\n\n\n

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Peace<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Waging Peace: International Peacekeeping After World War I<\/p>\n\n\n

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Versailles to Vietnam: The Long-Term Effects of the Peace Process<\/p>\n\n\n

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Social Injustice<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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What is Genocide: Analyzing the Armenian Massacres of World War I<\/p>\n\n\n

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We Return Fighting: Mapping the Experiences of African American Soldiers After World War I<\/p>\n\n\n

Download Lesson here<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Social Injustice in Hawai\u02bbi<\/p>\n\n\n

Download Lesson here<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Legacies of the War<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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How World War I Changed the World: Analyzing the Geographic Impact of the Great War<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Rise to Power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis<\/p>\n\n\n

Download Lesson here<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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