Resource Guides: History: World War I

Books in Carnegie Library

The Great War by David Almond; John Boyne; Tracy Chevalier; Jim Kay (Illustrator)
Call Number: MS SC WWI
ISBN: 9780763675547
Publication Date: 2015-04-14
A hundred years after the fighting began, eleven acclaimed writers have taken inspiration from eleven objects connected with the war. A toy soldier. A butter dish. A compass. Mundane objects, perhaps, but to the remarkable authors in this collection, artifacts such as these have inspired stories that go to the heart of the human experience of war.
Campaigns of World War I by Nick Hunter
Call Number: MS 940.41 HUN
ISBN: 9781432980818
Publication Date: 2013-07-01
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood by Nathan Hale
Call Number: MS GN 940.3 HAL
ISBN: 9781419708084
Publication Date: 2014-05-13
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Call Number: 940.4 TUC
ISBN: 0345476093
Publication Date: 2004-08-03
World War I by Hew Strachan (Editor)
Call Number: 940.3 WOR
ISBN: 0198206143
Publication Date: 1999-02-04
The War to End All Wars by Russell Freedman
Call Number: 940.3 FRE
ISBN: 9780547026862
Publication Date: 2010-08-28
World War I by H. P. Wilmont
Call Number: 940.3 WIL
ISBN: 0789496275
Publication Date: 2003-10-06
A More Unbending Battle by Peter N. Nelson
Call Number: 940.54 NEL
ISBN: 9780465003174
Publication Date: 2009-05-12
The Harlem Hellfighters' struggle for freedom in WWI and equality at home.
The Harlem Hellfighters by Max Brooks; Caanan White (Illustrator)
Call Number: GN 940.54 BRO
ISBN: 0307464970
Publication Date: 2014-04-01

Websites

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
The companion site to the PBS documentary series, The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century. Check the tabs for the Index, Educational Resources (by topic), Historian Commentaries, and the episode Overviews, which contain “Voices of the Great War” quotations, time lines and maps.
World War I; BBC site
This site replaces a broken one that was originally listed for this assignment. This comprehensive site is recommended by the History Channel and the BBC).
Photos of the Great War
http://www.gwpda.org/photos/>. This is a private site, dedicated to public domain photographs about World War I. It is part of a larger site about the war, the Great War Primary Document Archive, at the University of Kansas, that is also recommended by the History Channel.
The Great War: 1914-1918
At first, this site was devoted to the poetry of the Great War, and was constructed to complement the collections at the Beck Center in the Woodruff Library of Emory University. It is now an expanded collection of other aspects of popular culture during the war.
World War One Historical Society
This is the site for the Great War Society, which will become the home of a new organization called the World War One Historical Association.
First World War
First World War, more from the Imperial War Museum
2014 being the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, museums and institutions in Great Britain have greatly expanded their exhibits and websites concerning the war. The length and breadth of resources here is quite amazing.
The Great War Archive
The Great War Archive contains over 6,500 items contributed by the general public between March and June 2008. Every item originates from, or relates to, someone's experience of the First World War, either abroad or at home. Contributions were received via a special website and also through a series of open days at libraries and museums throughout the country.
World War I; 100th Anniversary (U.S. Department of Defense site)
Site includes timeline, video (silent archival footage), correspondence, veterans' stories, and more.
UK National Archives First World War Records
Explore our collection of First World War records

We hold the official UK government records of the First World War, including a vast collection of letters, diaries, maps and photographs.
Who Were the Harlem Hellfighters?
Article about "one of the few black combat regiments in World War I, they’d earned the prestigious Croix de Guerre from the French army under which they’d served for six months of “brave and bitter fighting.” Their nickname they’d received from their German foes: “Hellfighters,” the Harlem Hellfighters." by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
African Americans and World War I
World War I | Library of Congress
Exploring the Bolshevik Revolution with Historic Newspapers | Teaching with the Library of Congress

Databases

ProQuest Historical Newspapers and U.S. Major Dailies This link opens in a new window
This library offers online access to historical newspapers that you can click through cover to cover, or search by topic, date, or article type (article, photo, comic, birth/death/marriage notice, display ad, film review, etc.). They present firsthand accounts and opinions that bring history to life. Also provides access to current full-text content from selected U.S. newspapers.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is an archive of scholarly writing across academic disciplines. Highly recommended for deeper information gathering in subjects related to the humanities, though STEM-related fields are also represented. Currency varies by journal. You will see this database in college.