Tag Archives: WWI
WWI App Coming Soon, with Help from Educators
Teachers provided invaluable feedback for a new WWI app, set for release early this fall. Continue reading
Posted in Online Tools, Partner Organizations
Tagged app, Film, historypin, ipad, library_of_congress, mobile_app, national_archives_kansas_city, photographs, smithsonian, WWI
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WWI App User-Design Workshop for Educators in Kansas City
We invite educators to participate in a free World War I app user-design workshop on Saturday, June 25, at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, MO. Continue reading
Posted in Partner Organizations, Professional Development, Programs
Tagged app, historypin, ipad, mobile_app, national_archives_kansas_city, WWI
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WWI Posters and Home Cards
Posters and cards distributed on the homefront provide an engaging way to introduce students to World War I. Continue reading
Posted in Document Spotlights, Teaching Activities & Lesson Plans
Tagged food, herbert_hoover, homefront, poster, Posters, primarily_teaching, primary_sources, Propaganda, WWI
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Gardening to Victory
Today we shine a spotlight on WWI and WWII victory gardens through home front propaganda. Continue reading
Posted in Document Spotlights
Tagged food, poster, Posters, Propaganda, war, World War I, World War II, WWI, wwii
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Memorable Primary Sources: Teacher-Digitized Documents
Our former intern describes his favorite documents from the hundreds digitized and added to DocsTeach during our Primarily Teaching workshops earlier this year. Continue reading
Posted in Document Spotlights, Professional Development
Tagged animal, constitution, docsteach, docsteach_new_documents, fishing, food, immigration, map, NASA, national_archives_atlanta, national_archives_chicago, national_archives_dc, national_archives_seattle, primarily_teaching, primary, space, WWI
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A Primary Source Transcription Mission!
We’re inviting students, teachers, and learners of all ages to make primary sources more accessible by transcribing them. Continue reading
Art as Propaganda in World War I
Two new WWI teaching activities introduce students to artists employed to show the war to Americans back home. Continue reading
Video Clips from Henry Ford’s Motion Picture Department
Ford films show the assembly line, the industrial process, and a wide range of topics outside of industry as well. Continue reading
Open Registration for Summer Professional Development
We are now accepting applications for Primarily Teaching—our summer institute for educators on using historical documents in the classroom. Learn more and apply online. Summer 2015 workshops will be held at our locations in: Atlanta (Morrow, GA) June 22–26 Chicago, June 22–26 Seattle, July 6–10 … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Development, Research
Tagged chinese_americans, chinese_exclusion, civil_rights, hoover_library, immigration, NASA, national_archives_atlanta, national_archives_chicago, national_archives_seattle, native american, native_americans, new_deal, PD, presidential_library, primarily_teaching, primary_sources, professional_development, research, segregation, tva, westward_expansion, WWI
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New Teaching Activity: The Zimmermann Telegram
Students will analyze the Zimmermann telegram to evaluate whether the United States should have entered World War I. Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Activities & Lesson Plans
Tagged docsteach, docsteach_new_activities, espionage, lesson_plans, primary_sources, war, WWI
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