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Fall 09 Week Eight: World War I and America Before 1920

19. Mon 10/19 The US and WW1, 1916-1920

Reading: GML Ch 19 (678-689) “Era of Intervention” and “America and the Great War”
PS = Safe for Democracy, Fourteen Points

Links to WW1 Online Archives:

World War I Document Archives
World War I Trenches on the Web
North Carolinians and the Great War
World War I Posters @ Library of Congress

20. Wed 10/21 The War’s Homefront and Defining Americanism

Reading: Ch 19 (690-718) “The War at Home” and “Who is an American?” and “1919”
PS = Espionage Age, Enemy Alien AND Browse the documents and resources on this website, “In Motion: The African-American Experience

Due in class: Research Paper

21. Fri 10/23 Digital Project Day

Meet in the library lobby near the circulation desk.

We will be working in the College archives on the library’s 2nd floor during class today & will be working on our digital archive project for the Digital Worcester website.

Posted in Fall 2009, Week by Week.