Primary Source Photographs

Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914 to 1919

Illustrations from historic newspapers in the collections of the Library of Congress detail events of the First World War alongside other news of the day.This online collection is drawn from the...
Library of Congress
Downloadable Lesson Plan

WWI in the Middle East: A Research Project

This active-learning lesson helps students learn more about World War I and the modern Middle East, through research and an activity creating their own exhibition for a Museum of the Middle East in...
In collaboration with Lisa Adeli
Video transcripts

Museum Film Scripts

The following PDFs are the full transcripts of three videos used within the National WWI Museum and Memorial's Main Gallery. Use the script from the video as reference for an onsite field trip, or as...
Articles

Modern Medicine and the Great War

In this resource, students explore a virtual exhibit on medicine during the First World War. Health and fitness were central to building a strong military force, and sick and wounded soldiers required...
National Museum of American History
Short Video

Mexico in WW1: The Mexican Revolution

This 9 1/2 minute video from The Great War Channel explains the internal struggles and revolution affecting neutral Mexico during World War I, and how Germany's stance against the United States...
The Great War YouTube Channel
Articles, Essays

Medicine in the First World War

During the war, the U.S. Army mobilized medical resources to create one hundred large base hospitals. This website has been created to tell the story of Base Hospital #28, the 2,500 bed military base...
University of Kansas Medical Center
Classroom Activity

Mapping the Legacy of WWI in the Middle East

Using the maps provided, students will identify the alliances of 1914 and answer questions about borders in the Middle East as result of the war.
MacArthur Memorial
Article

Making and Breaking Nations

World War One resulted in radical changes to national boundaries. Professor David Stevenson, London School of Economics & Political Science, explains the changes that took place in Europe's...
British Library, David Stevenson
Online Exhibition

Make Way for Democracy

In an era of federal segregation, the national call as "champions of the rights of mankind" rang hollow. Many African Americans saw the war as an opportunity to redefine their U.S. citizenship and...