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What Are We Fighting For Over There?
Perspectives on the Great War


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Camp Custer
Complete view of Camp Custer, Mich., July, 1918.
Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991

This unit is taught by means of selected American Memory historical collections, the PBS documentary The Great War, teacher-created support materials, and supplemental print and electronic resources listed in the Research Library.


American Memory

Today in History

The African-American Experience in Ohio

African-American Odyssey

American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election

American Variety Stage

Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection

Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920

Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940

On the Homefront: America During World War I and World War II (an activity from The Learning Page)

Stars and Stripes

Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991

Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film

Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920.

Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921

 

Support materials

American Leaders Speak Analysis

Department Assignments

Lesson One

Lesson Two

Lesson Three

Newswire

Newspaper Guidelines

Primary Source Analysis

Research Library

Peer Review

 

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American Memory

Internet Resources

Print Resources

 

 

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