North Carolina and WWI
Introduction
Decision
Teaching Module: Entering the War
Opposition to WWI
Draft and Doughboys
Experiences
Teaching Module: Experiences in Combat
Home Front
Teaching Module: Fighting the War at Home
Infringement of Civil Liberties
Returning Home
Teaching Module: When Soldiers Came Home
Memorials & Connections to WWII
Additional Resources
NC State College of Education: Social Studies
Library of Congress Teaching Resources
Uncle Sam recruitment poster (1917), Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/96507165/
To learn more about the draft, which was enacted through the Selective Service Act of 1917,
click on the links below:
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2016/09/world-war-i-conscription-laws/
https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/65th-congress/session-1/c65s1ch15.pdf?loclr=blogloc-ww1
To read the diary of NC doughboy, Willard Newton,
who served in the U.S. Army during WWI, click on the following link:
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newcentury/5756
Introduction
Decision
Teaching Module: Entering the War
Opposition to WWI
Draft and Doughboys
Experiences
Teaching Module: Experiences in Combat
Home Front
Teaching Module: Fighting the War at Home
Infringement of Civil Liberties
Returning Home
Teaching Module: When Soldiers Came Home
Memorials & Connections to WWII
Additional Resources
NC State College of Education: Social Studies
Library of Congress Teaching Resources