Primary Source Learning: World War I Teaching Resources

The Teaching with Library of Congress blog provides some great primary source teaching ideas related to supporting the troops, focusing in on wartime clothing drives. Be sure to check out these World War I clothing-related posters. There are also lots more teaching resources to draw from.

World War I related Teaching with the Library of Congress blog posts

Activities & lesson plans

• American Memory Timeline: U.S. Participation in the Great War background & primary source analysis activities
• Primary Source Learning: Personal Perspectives of World War I primary source activities using veteran oral histories
• World War I: What Are We Fighting For Over There? lesson plan
• Espionage, Sedition, Censorship, and Speaking Up lesson plan
• On the Homefront, America During World War I and World War II online activity
• Guided primary source analysis activities
  • American Expeditionary Force map
  • El Paso Herald August 12, 1914
  • Hitting the trail to Normandy
  • Irishmen – Avenge the Lusitania
• Sounds & Scenes of the Home Front: Messaging in American Media During World War I

Collection connections

• American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
• Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures
• Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers’ Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919

World War I primary sources