![]() Reading 2: World War I and the United States Marine Corps (USMC) ()\Īctivity 1: African American World War I Sailors, You be the Historian: Interpreting World War I Naval Enlistment DataĪctivity 2: The Philadelphia Navy Yard Annex and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic through Archival Newspaper Accounts Reading 1: Ironclads to Dreadnoughts: Advances in Shipbuilding Technology at the Philadelphia Navy Yard Annex (PNYA) () Map 1: A 1912 USGS topographic quadrangle map of Philadelphia and the surrounding area, highlighting the Philadelphia Navy Yard Annex at League Island history, social studies, common core, and social justice learning standards and Pennsylvania social studies standards. Situates this lesson within relevant U.S. Includes learning objectives, materials available for students, and details about visiting the site. This includes Sailors, Marines, and workmen, who all experienced the world of the early twentieth century together in this place. Navy, but also about the lives of the people who lived and worked there. The Philadelphia Navy Yard Annex provides an opportunity to learn not only about the technology of the U.S. ![]() This was further advanced by the outbreak of World War I and the demands it placed on Naval power, worldwide. transitioned from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. The requirements of shipbuilding, repair, and docking changed the built environment of the navy yard and pushed the technology forward, especially as the U.S. One place that has been very evident is the Philadelphia Navy Yard (now the Philadelphia Navy Yard Annex) in Pennsylvania. Image source: Library of Congress, Control Number pa3416. A caisson in dry dock at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
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