Access thousands of primary sources from World War I using DocsTeach — including letters, photographs, posters, video, and many other documents — along with teaching activities and interactive content...

President Woodrow Wilson created the Committee on Public Information (CPI) to mold Americans into one white-hot mass of war patriotism. Congress also passed the Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition...

The breadth of European imperialism - particularly of the British and French - stretched deep into Africa and Asia, introducing Western colonizers to a myriad of new textiles, patterns, and styles of...

Germany's use of unrestricted submarine warfare, where U-boat submarines were used to sink both military and merchant ships without warning, was very controversial and provocative. Smithsonian...

This article by Tait Keller posted to "1914-1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War" examines the ecological impact of WWI, explaining in detail how large-scale environmental...

This episode of MacArthur Memorial's World War I Podcast series explores Dazzle paintings of ships. This jarring, brightly colored paint scheme helped camouflage ships and made it hard for U-Boats to...

This upper high school lesson looks at the Armenian massacres as a launching point for 20th century genocides. The primary focus of the project is to delve into the role the media plays in chronicling...

How was the Middle East connected to the origins of WWI? What did war in the Middle East look like? How was the peace process different for the Middle East than it was for European nations? This...

In this collaborative lesson, students will utilize their understanding of the history of WWI and the impact it had on individual young men and women in the war by creating personas of individuals...

While the Armistice officially ended fighting on the Western Front, peace was not achieved on all fronts until 1923. This article from IWM highlights the surprising number of post-war conflicts,...