Grade Range: 4-12Resource Type(s): Reference Materials, Primary SourceDate Posted: 6/1/2009
Students will learn how the United States mass produced huge merchant fleets to support the soldiers fighting overseas in this section of On the Water: Stories from Maritime America, an online exhibition. Students will understand that merchant seamen and ships played a vital role in winning both world wars of the 20th century, and learn about the men and women who built the ships and risked their lives sailing them while playing a vital and unheralded role in the American war effort.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education, Thematic approach
Enlisted soldier's uniform. The brown, doughy color of the uniform led to these soldiers being re...
shipping, commerce, WW1, ship, great war, WW2, trade, World War II, maritime, WWI, World War 1, Second World War, World War I, WWII, water, world war 2, transportation, industry, First World War, boat
In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast o...
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