WORLD WAR I
GENERAL SOURCES
WORLD WAR I: TRENCHES ON
THE WEB -- This is the place to start for
learning about the Great War. Not the most logically-structured of
web-sites but there is a wealth of fascinating material here.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES LEARNING CURVE: A good introduction to the Great War.
: Read the interviews with historians that served as source
material for the eight-part PBS series "The Great War and the Shaping of the
20th Century."
: Although the interviews are the best feature of the
PBS site, other material can be found here.
LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE GREAT WAR: A virtual exhibit from
Trenches on the Web.
: A BBC introduction to the history of the Great War.
Includes a wide variety of articles.
GREAT
WAR 1914-18: An emphasis upon the battlefield and the
terrible human sacrifices made there.
ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR: An introduction to the war from the
Spartacus educational site.
WORLD WAR I: Short summaries on different Great War topics from the History Learning Site.
: Includes information about Northern Ireland's
contribution to the war and a series of good links.
: An overview that also provides information about the
Spanish Civil War and World War II.
: A very basic introduction designed for British
schoolchildren and teachers.
: A BBC school site that uses primary documents to capture a feel for
the war.
: A BBC site designed for exam revision on
Britain in World War One.
WORLD WAR I, THE GREAT WAR -- THE WESTERN FRONT: A chronology with accompanying links designed by Pam Robinson, a Virginia middle-school teacher.
WOODROW WILSON'S FOURTEEN POINTS: A brief introduction from the History Learning Site.
TREATY OF VERSAILLES: A summary from the History Learning Site.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS: The history of the international security organization that emerged from the war.
THE ART, MUSIC AND LITERATURE OF THE WAR
: A UNESCO-sponsored exhibit that brings together a
wide range of Great War art.
WORLD
WAR I SONGS: American music of the Great War.
Includes such classics as Arthur Fields's "You Keep Sending Em Over and We'll
Keep Knocking Em Down."
MODERN HISTORY SOURCEBOOK: WORLD WAR I POETRY : A selection of British poems.
IN FLANDERS FIELD: John McRae's ode to the fallen.
WORLD WAR I POSTERS AND POST CARDS
: A well-chosen international sample of World War I posters
from the Trenches On the Web site.
: A comparative section on propaganda from
FirstWorldWar.com .
BRITISH POSTERS OF WORLD WAR ONE : A virtual exhibit from George University Special Collections.
: With luck, clicking here will display the 284
French posters of the Library of Congress exhibit. If not, use the link
immediately below. Even if the French posters display here, encourage
you to browse the American posters as well.
: More than one thousand World War I posters from the
collections of the U.S. Library of Congress. A heavy emphasis on French
and American posters.
: A selection of war posters from Berlin's German
Historical Museum.
CANADIAN WAR POSTER COLLECTION: A sampling of Canadian World War I and World War II posters from the McGill Special Collections.
: THE POSTER WAR: ALLIED PROPAGANDA ART OF THE FIRST WORLD
WAR -- A virtual exhibit from the Alberta Provincial Museum.
: Thirty-one U.S. World War I posters from the University
of Washington Special Collections.
FIRST CALL: American posters of World War I from the collection of Roger N. Mohovich.
: A small selection of American World War I posters
featuring women.
: World War I and II posters from the collection at
the University of Minnesota.
WORLD WAR I POSTERS: ARTISTS MOBILIZING THE HOME FRONT -- Background information about the American propaganda effort.
PHOTOGRAPHS
SPECIFIC TOPICS
ARMENIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE: Dedicated to the "study, research, and affirmation of the Armenian Genocide."
: A feature on Women in War that includes much
information about British women in World War I.
LAWRENCE OF
ARABIA: A companion web-site to a PBS documentary.
TOM MORGAN'S HELLFIRE CORNER: A focus on the individual soldier, it includes personalized biographies of several Allied soldiers.
INDIVIDUAL NATIONS
: The home-page of Australia's national war monument includes
information about the Anzac legend.
AFTERMATH
-- WHEN THE BOYS CAME HOME: A British memory site dedicated to
the veterans of the Great War.
A comprehensive study of early 20th-century Britain from
the National Learning Curve. Includes considerable material on WWI and
its impact upon society.
WORLD WAR ONE MOVIES: This animated BBC site uses diary readings
and other primary sources to capture the war experiences of the British
soldier.
JAMES W. GERARD, Former Ambassador To Germany, "On The German-American
Peril," November 25, 1917: A brief audio clip from the History Channel's
Speech Archive.
PRIMARY SOURCES
MODERN HISTORY SOURCEBOOK: PRIVATE DONALD FRASER -- Selections from the daily journal of a soldier of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
FURTHER LINKS
WORLD WAR I LINKS CENTRAL: A gateway from the Great War Society.
WORLD WAR I: Extensive links from the Tracey Osborn's "Teacher Oz's Kingdom of History" web-site.