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Welcome to the International Academy

IB1 History

The United States in World War I

Digital Stories Project!

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Narration
- Gabcast to create MP3 of your narration by phone
- Audacity for audio editing (free download if you need it at home)

Multimedia Resources for your Digital Story

World War I Posters

WWI Posters (High Quality)

Music and audio to use in your Digital Story

Do not use copyrighted music in your digital stories, as they will be posted to YouTube, which may silence copyrighted music.

WWI Songs
U.S. Army Camp Songs
Sound recordings of American leaders making WWI speeches
Creative Commons licensed music: ccMixter

Images

Time-Life photos in Google Images
Home front images from multiple countries
Images licensed for educational use: Pics4Learning
Want to include headlines from historical newspapers? Check out Library of Congress' Chronicling America full-text searchable historical newspapers project!

General Research Resources on this Topic (for everyone)

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Gale U.S. History Resource Center

Americans at War. John P. Resch, ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. 1196 pp. 4 vols.

World War I Reference Library. Sara Pendergast, Christine Slovey, and Tom Pendergast, eds. Detroit: UXL, 2002. 626 pp. 4 vols.

"On the Homefront" digital collection. American Memory, Library of Congress.

"Over Here: The War on the Home Front, 1917-1918." American Journey Online: World War I and the Jazz Age. Primary Source Microfilm, 2000.

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African-Americans, Native-Americans, and Latinos	3 articles from Americans at War. African-Americans WWI African-Americans and Mexican-Americans in Texas during WWI Racial violence
American Red Cross & Medicine	American Red Cross WWI Nurses WWI Medicine Military Medicine (general) including WWI
Civil Liberties	Civil Liberties, WWI Espionage and Sedition acts Dissent in WWI Civil liberties and propoganda Establishment of ACLU
Propaganda and Visual Arts	Visual Arts during WWI Propaganda, use during WWI Images of the Enemy Motion pictures during WWI About WWI Propaganda Posters
The Doughboy Experience "Over There"	Over There: US Military Effort in WWI A Soldier's Life. WWI U.S. Soldier Experience Letters home from soldiers Stars and Stripes newspaper for U.S. soldiers General Pershing biography Paris instruction cards for doughboys
Conscription & Demobilization	Conscription in WWI Creating a conscript army Demobilization post-WWI Demobilization
Food & Rationing	Rationing Lever Food Control Act 1919 The War Garden Victorious (eBook) "We Were a Soft People" journal article
Economy, Labor & Regional Migration	Regional Migration U.S. Economy in the 1910's WWI Economy Labor, WWI WWI National War Labor Board
Submarine Warfare, Espionage & Sabotage	Sinking of the Lusitania Zimmerman Telegram Opposing viewpoints on unrestricted German submarine warfare WWI Espionage and Sabotage Black Tom explosion
Financing the War	Financing of WWI Liberty Bonds Victory Loan of 1919 Liberty Loans Savings Bonds Thrift Stamps War Finance Corporation Posters/art as fundraising propoganda
U.S. Intervention in Russian Civil War	The Russian Revolution. Allied intervention (Polar Bears) Polar Bear Expedition digital collection
Women: Employment and Suffrage	Women and WWI Women and Work during WWI Employment of Women Suffrage movement (overview) Suffrage in the 20th Century
Wilson's wartime administration	Woodrow Wilson administrations Declaration of Neutrality Wilson's war message Wilson presidential biography

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Project Resources

Project Details, Organizers & Rubrics

Digital Story Technology & Tutorials

Photostory

Narration

Multimedia Resources for your Digital Story

World War I Posters

Music and audio to use in your Digital Story

Images

General Research Resources on this Topic (for everyone)

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Project Groups

Topics and Corresponding Resources

African-Americans, Native-Americans, and Latinos

American Red Cross & Medicine

Civil Liberties

Propaganda and Visual Arts

The Doughboy Experience "Over There"

Conscription & Demobilization

Food & Rationing

Economy, Labor & Regional Migration

Submarine Warfare, Espionage & Sabotage

Financing the War

U.S. Intervention in Russian Civil War

Women: Employment and Suffrage

Wilson's wartime administration

WWII Example

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