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Language Arts And English
+2 Age Levels Middle School (13 to 15 years old), High School (16 to 18 years old)
This collection presents three different liberty bonds primary sources dating from 1918: a postcard, sheet music/song, and a celebrity aviator's brochure. With these resources students will explore Liberty Bonds, also called war bonds or liberty loans, which were essentially loans from the American people to the U.S. government to fund the Allies' involvement in World War I. Many public campaigns presented purchasing bonds as the patriotic way to support the war from the home front. Carefully chosen words and imagery conveyed this message and persuaded Americans to act quickly, through both subtle and direct messaging.
Essential questions: What role did Liberty Bonds play in financing the U.S. WWI effort? How did persuasive language techniques and visuals lead many Americans to see Liberty Bonds as part of their patriotic duty on the home front? …
Liberty Bonds of World War I (WW1)
- Published by:
- Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology
- Created by:
- Ashley Naranjo
- Date Published
- July 12, 2017
- Last Modified
- November 05, 2021
- Description
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This collection presents three different liberty bonds primary sources dating from 1918: a postcard, sheet music/song, and a celebrity aviator's brochure. With these resources students will explore Liberty Bonds, also called war bonds or liberty loans, which were essentially loans from the American people to the U.S. government to fund the Allies' involvement in World War I. Many public campaigns presented purchasing bonds as the patriotic way to support the war from the home front. Carefully chosen words and imagery conveyed this message and persuaded Americans to act quickly, through both subtle and direct messaging.
Essential questions: What role did Liberty Bonds play in financing the U.S. WWI effort? How did persuasive language techniques and visuals lead many Americans to see Liberty Bonds as part of their patriotic duty on the home front?
Keywords: primary source, secondary source, soldiers, World War I, Great War, Ruth Law, "What are you going to do to help the boys?", army, military, Uncle Sam, WWI, persuasion, advertising
This collection was created in conjunction with the National Postal Museum's "My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I" teacher workshop (July 19, 2017). It focuses on one of the many postcards from this topical collection to demonstrate its use in the secondary classroom. #NPMTeacherPrograms
#historicalthinking
- Notes to Other Users
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Teachers may jigsaw the class into three groups, in which each group examines and analyzes one of the following:
- Postcard- front and back, entitled "Liberty Bonds Promotional Postcard" (1918),
- Sheet music, song and lyrics for "What are you going to do to help the boys?" (1918),
- The National Air and Space Museum's blog post with contextual information for the aviator Ruth Law's "bombshell" Liberty Bond advertising leaflet.
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