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This clip has primary source photos and was shown in my son's class at Anoka-Ramsey Community College. They lyrics are sung to Willie McBride, a WWI soldier.

Lots of images used by the u.s. to promote involvement in WWI

Fabulous resource:) I do a music history w/ narrative of WWI ( so more primary sources) that I created for my masters (eons ago!!). This unit gets so scrunched I barely touched on it.

Thousands of the Tower of London ceramic poppies are to tour the UK to enable more people to see parts of the popular artwork. Have students watch the attached video. It shows the poppies surrounding the Tower of London, one for each death in the UK and Commonwealth during WWI.

Thousands of the Tower of London ceramic poppies are to tour the UK to enable more people to see parts of the popular artwork.

49 high quality primary source photos

Examples of Propaganda from WW1. Lots of posters.

During World War One, more than a million women  went to work in factories, mines, laboratories and offices across the country. So what was it like? Conditions were often poor, the work arduous and they were often paid as little as half the wages of their male counterparts. And, despite their contributions, the 1919 Restoration…

Pictures of the hundreds of thousands of ceramic poppies that form the installation, Blood Swept Lands And Seas Of Red, at the Tower of London.

As many as 250,000 boys under the age of 18 served in the British Army during World War One, Fergal Keane remembers the sacrifice they made.

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