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Posted by: Danna Bell
Wonder how rumors get started and how they are spread? The World War II Rumor collection explores that topic. Learn more from a post provide by the American Folklife Center.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945)
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Help your students use poetry written by soldiers during wartime to help them understand the the events of the war and the experiences of those who fought in it.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Poetry and Literature
Posted by: Danna Bell
While most of the Red Cross posters of nurses can be analyzed or read in distinctly gendered ways, there is a subset that carries clear references to imagery from religious art.
Posted in: Fine and Performing Arts, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945)
Posted by: Danna Bell
The Red Cross posters of nurses from WWI are complex images rife with gendered implications and imagery. These images contrast not only against the social movement of feminism happening at the time, but also each other.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Women's History
Posted by: Danna Bell
Learn more about the work of women photographers in World War I.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Veterans and Military History, Women's History
Posted by: Danna Bell
Music has always been a part of major events in history, frequently used to persuade listeners to adopt a point of view or to take action. This was certainly the case during World War I.
Posted in: Fine and Performing Arts, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945)
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
At the start of World War I posters offered a powerful tool to reach and influence citizens of every social, educational, and racial background.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Teaching Strategies, Veterans and Military History
Posted by: Danna Bell
Two collections of eyewitness accounts from the Library of Congress offer insights into the daily lives and struggles of soldiers during World War II: the drawings by Yank magazine artist Sergeant Howard Brodie and interviews through the Library's Veterans History Project (VHP).
Posted in: Veterans and Military History, World History
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
In the October 2017 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our & "Sources and Strategies" article features two manuscript documents from individuals with very different responses to the armistice that ended the major fighting of World War I.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Veterans and Military History