This lesson will help students understand how Americans felt about WWI before we entered it and understand that it was not necessarily widely supported like WWII.
The lesson incorporates an online exhibition from the National World War I Museum with primary and secondary sources regarding the African American experience in World War I.
This lessons aims to present an event in history through the eyes of Wilfred Owen to the students, so they can understand the pain, struggle, and consequences of war. Students will then also see how literature can portray history.
This exercise will enable students to understand how each individual’ personal bias could be affected by evidence presented to them, in this case, posters of WWI.
A variety of primary sources reveal the complexity of historical interpretation and memory from the point of view of President Truman and his contemporaries.