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- World War I propaganda posters
- U.S. Government propaganda posters spelled out the reasons for American involvement in World War I and encouraged all Americans to help in the war effort.
- Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
- World War II on the home front: Rationing
- During World War II, the United States asked citizens at home to cut back on food, fuel, shoes, and consumer goods and to turn in scrap metal, rubber, paper, and even used cooking grease for recycling. Photographs, posters, and artifacts tell the story.
- Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
- World War I political debate
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.7
- In this lesson for grade six, students will use their knowledge of World War I to debate whether Germany should have paid reparations following the war.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Shea Calloway.
- Pearl Harbor (from World at War)
- Clip from a film produced by the U.S. Government to educate Americans about the war.
- Format: video/video
- War time propaganda: American posters of the Great War
- This lesson correlates with students' study of the World War I period. In particular, students will examine wartime propaganda, in the form of posters that appeared on the home front digitized in the Documenting the American South's North Carolina and the Great War collection.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Kathryn Sansbury.
- Cost of living 1918, 1944 / Price control began here
- Government-produced poster compares rising prices in World War I with the success of price controls in World War II.
- Format: image/poster
- Japanese war objectives and planned opening attacks in World War II
- Format: image/map
- Can all you can
- World War II poster asks Americans to "Can all you can -- it's a real war job!"
- Format: image/poster
- World War I tank
- This photograph shows a tank in a field. A couple of buildings can be seen in the distance. Tank warfare had its beginning during World War I.
- Format: image/photograph
- A navy mechanic, World War II
- Assembly and Repairs Dept. mechanic Mary Josephine Farley works on a Wright Whirlwind motor, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas.
- Format: image/photograph
- Roosevelt asks for a declaration of war on Japan
- Format: video/speech
- Seige of Leningrad
- Dead bodies lie in Nevsky Prospekt and a bomb goes off in the distance in this photograph taken during the siege of Leningrad in World War II.
- Format: image/photograph
- 20th century warfare: Unique contributions of the American Indian
- In this lesson, high school students will assess the importance and contributions of the American Indian in the United States' twentieth century wars. They focus in particular on the Navajo Code Talkers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By John B. Jones.
- Map of World War II in the Pacific
- Format: image/map
- World War I corn propaganda poster
- This poster from World War I shows a woman with a variety of products made from corn, including corn meal, grits, hominy, pancakes, and muffins. Published by the United States Food Administration, it was one of many propaganda posters printed during the era....
- Format: image/poster
- Polk County Historical Association Museum
- The artifacts found at the Polk County Historical Museum include pioneer tools and clothing, railroad memorabilia, military artifacts, a newspaper editor's office, and much more.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- War Memorial in Troy, NC
- This is the War Memorial in Troy, North Carolina, in Montgomery County. The base of the statue explains that the statue honors "Montgomery County Sons who served in the World War," "Montgomery County Sons who served in the Spanish American War," "Montgomery...
- Format: image/photograph
- Wayne County Museum
- Students will learn about the history of Wayne County as well as the influence of historic events on the people and way of life in the area.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Books cannot be killed by fire (World War II poster)
- This World War II propaganda poster published by the U.S. government depicts enemy soldiers setting fire to a book that looms over them like a building. The book's cover reads: Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books...
- Format: image/poster
- America needs your scrap rubber
- U.S. Government poster from World War II illustrating the military need for rubber.
- Format: image/poster
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