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Expanding Student Understanding of World War I Soldiers' Experiences with Poetry
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Moats, Stacie; Lederle, Cheryl – Social Education, 2021
"The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919" collection at the Library of Congress provides access to the newspaper distributed to military personnel during World War I. The news articles reveal what members of the American Expeditionary Force actually read about military battles and campaigns in…
Descriptors: History Instruction, War, World History, Military Personnel
Why Korea? Why Now? Using Inquiry to Teach about the Korean War and Its Legacy
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Han, Jongwoo; Karb, Joseph – Social Education, 2018
Numerous research and scholarly articles have been written on the Korean War. Yet in many K-12 history classrooms, the war and its legacy are still "forgotten" and are only addressed with a paragraph or two in a textbook. The Korean War Legacy and World History Digital Education foundations are changing this situation by honoring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asian History, War, Inquiry
Bias, Bigotry, and Bungling: Teaching about the Port Chicago 50
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Clabough, Jeremiah; Wooten, Deborah – Social Education, 2016
Steve Sheinkin's "The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights" recounts the explosion at a U.S. Navy base in the summer of 1944 that claimed 320 lives. It is also a story of African American resistance against prejudice, segregation, and injustice in the armed forces during World War II. The book was a 2015…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Civil Rights, African Americans, Racial Bias