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Primary Source Learning: World War I Teaching Resources

August 15, 2011 by PSN Leave a Comment

Last Updated on June 24, 2021

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

Collection connections

World War I teaching primary source collections

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