This brief account of the Battle of the Thames includes links to significant names and events.

Learn the exciting story of the Miami Indians and how they became the most powerful Indian tribe in Ohio. Click on underlined words throughout the text to go to links containing related information.

Recounts the life of Little Turtle. Little Turtle was the war chief of the Miami Indians, the most powerful Indian Tribe in Ohio, who finally advocated for peace with the new United States government.

A brief history of the Shawnee Indians in Ohio. Site also contains many links to information on other tribes, battles and complete texts of treaties.

Information about the confederacy of Native Americans known as the Iroquois. Details how they lived and their allies and enemies, both foreign and from other Native American tribes.

Learn more about World War I by doing what historians do–analyzing visual media! Students will learn how to examine and interpret visual materials produced during World War I, and will better understand the importance of visual culture as a primary source and a means of recording history. This recorded program, uses World War I era photographs, posters, and cartoons to practice the skills required to analyze and interpret images. Teachers can show the recorded program to the class to start the activity, and continue the lesson with students by using the program packet, which includes additional images, descriptions, and supplemental questions to engage students with the content and develop analytical skills. The program packet includes a teacher’s guide, student photograph analysis worksheet, teacher’s image guide, and student image worksheet and answer key.

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.