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Last WWI Veteran Dies
The last veteran of World War I, Claude Stanley Choules, died today in Australia at 110. World War I, often overs shadowed by World War II, was the first truly modern war. The horrors and atrocities...
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Veteran History Project now on iTunes U
Thanks to my friend Michael Hulshoff-Schmidt for inspiring me to write this post. The Library of Congress has begun their “Veteran History Project,” officially recording the experiences of American...
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Unearthing the Hidden Tunnels of WWI
The trench warfare of World War I has almost entered the world of legend with stories of troops living in quarters two feet wide for months at a time. The realities of it were pain, discomfort,...
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Christmas Truce in No Man’s Land – December 1914
Men from the Royal Dublin Fusiliers meet their German counterparts in no man's land somewhere in the deadly Ypres Salient, December 26, 1914. (Smithsonian Magazine) The famous (and at one time...
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Gilder Lehrman/NEH Institute: The Empire City (Day 2)
So, at the end of a rather full Day 2, I have to admit that I’m a bit on “information overload,” so I’m a little… frazzled. As such, don’t be surprised to see some revisions on this over the next...
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Six Sites for Primary Source Materials
It is officially August and most educators are beginning to feel the pressure that is the beginning of school. As we start to look at rosters and enrollment, we start to pull out and revamp old lesson...
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The National Archives Needs Your Help to Transcribe WWI Diaries
The Smithsonian often reaches out to the public to help its transcription projects. The most recent is to help transcribe diaries from World War I. Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The project is...
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WWI unfolds in 3 minutes across the Map
Courtesy of Open Culture check out this great 3:31 video demonstrating how WWI unfolded across the map in Europe.
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NYT –“The Great War: A 100 Year Legacy of World War I” Interactive
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons My colleague and friend Kate Bloomfield, a teacher in the Social Studies department at Ransom Everglades School, forwarded me this great link for the New York Times: “The...
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Free Technology for Teachers: Explore the World with the Google Cultural...
This is reblogged from my post on Free Technology for Teachers I am a big fan of the Google Cultural Institute; it’s an amazing repository of Artistic Masterpieces, Wonders of the Natural World,...
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