USEFUL LINKS: 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.

• : 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.

•   : A multimedia history of World War I.

•   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.

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•     Great War Web Site

•   : Heritage Of The Great War

•     Great WAr 1914-1918:  An emphasis upon the battlefield and the terrible human sacrifices made there.

Art, Music And Literature Of The Great 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 Poems : A selection of British poems.

World War I Posters And Post Cards

•    :  Propaganda post cards of the Great War.

•   : 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 Georgetown 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.

•   : French World War I 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.

•    : Poster War: Allied Propaganda Art Of The First World War -- A virtual exhibit from the Alberta Provincial Museum.

•   : 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.

Monuments And Memorials

•   Thiepval War Memorial Panorama: A BBC site that introduces the most famous British monument at the Somme.

Photographs

Individual Nations

•   Anzac Day Commemorations: 

•   A site geared to Australian tourists.

•   :  A BBC commemorative site.

• Great War, 1914-1918:  The companion web-site for an April 2007 CBC special.

•   : France in the Great War.

Primary Sources

• World War I Document Archive

• Modern History Sourcebook: Private Donald Fraser -- Selections from the daily journal of a soldier of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.

• Documents Of World War I

Further Links

• Christmas Truce:  A series of resources from my Twentieth Century history course on the Christmas Truce of 1914.

• Project Facade:  The new sculptures of artist Paddy Hartley based upon the medical records of Queen's Hospital, Sidcup.

• 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.

•   : Web links from a high school AP European History class.