Students will learn how to search the Chronicling America website to find evidence of the past. The lesson introduces students to databases and search strategies used in historic research. Students will use the evidence they discover to create a poster that compares and contrasts newspapers articles from the Union and the Confederacy.

Introduce students to the role and contributions of African American World War I soldiers.

These interactive classroom activities teach students how to analyze primary sources by engaging them with diaries and scrapbooks composed by men and women abroad during World War I, all of which are freely available in their entirety in the World War I in Ohio Collection on Ohio Memory . The A Soldier’s Experience activity connects students to the daily life of a soldier and two personal, first-hand accounts.

This interactive classroom activity engages students with technologies developed during World War I by using primary source material in the World War I in Ohio Collection on Ohio Memory . This packet includes four activities using soldier letters and newsletters.

You can learn a lot about a time period from newspapers published at that time – anxieties, sources of entertainment, local and national events and more. A variety of publishers produced newspapers, each with their own point of view. This activity focuses on articles from newspapers published by labor unions during World War II in the 1940s.

This resource guide helps teachers to use World War I source material from the World War I in Ohio Collection on Ohio Memory in the classroom. The material included in this resource guide engages students with the important ways Ohioans and others contributed to the national war effort during the Great War.

Illustrate connections between technology, Ohio, and World War I; the role of African Americans serving in the Signal Corps; and the growth and development of aviation.

These interactive classroom activities teach students how to analyze primary sources by engaging them with diaries and scrapbooks composed by men and women abroad during World War I, all of which are freely available in their entirety in the World War I in Ohio Collection on Ohio Memory. Students can investigate the biases of public media and the dissemination of wartime news in the World War I from an American in Paris activity.