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World War I
 Websites presented in alphabetical order "No Job For a Woman" 
 Companion website to an exhibit that "focuses on [British] women's experiences of war in the twentieth century," covering topics pre-1914, during World War I and World War II, and post-1945. Includes images and activities related to themes such as "A woman's place is in the home" and "War babes: stereotypes, pin-ups and prejudice." From the Imperial War Museum, Great Britain. http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/30/women/index.htm Topics: History By Place, Wars & Conflicts, Women, World War II Last updated Jul 17, 2006 American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
This collection "consists of fifty-nine sound recordings of speeches by American leaders from 1918-1920. The speeches focus on issues and events surrounding the First World War and the subsequent presidential election of 1920. Speakers include: Warren G. Harding, James Cox, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel Gompers, Henry Cabot Lodge, and John J. Pershing. Speeches range from one to five minutes." Searchable and browsable. From the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/ Topics: Government, Nonfiction by Genre, Presidents by Name, The United States Presidency, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Nov 28, 2004 Art of the First World War
This online exhibit commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of the First World War. It includes an introductory essay and a thematic tour with commentary of the approximately 100 works of art by more than 50 artists. Also browsable by artist. Available in English, French, and German. http://www.art-ww1.com/ Topics: Holidays and Observances Individually, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Aug 19, 2003 Australian War Memorial
This government site "commemorates the sacrifice of Australians who have suffered and died in war." Features material about "Australia's involvement in war from the time of the first settlement at Sydney Cove in the 18th Century to our peacekeeping roles under United Nations auspices and the Gulf War," a list of significant events in Australia's military history, a who's who, statistics, background about military units, a glossary, and much more. http://www.awm.gov.au Topics: History By Place, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Sep 5, 2006 Canadian War Poster Collection
"Contains basic descriptions and images" of 150 Canadian posters from World War I and World War II, "an artist index, and an essay about Canadian War Posters." Browsable by category (recruiting, victory bonds, Food Board, war effort and production, appeals for discretion, men of valor). Available in English and French. From McGill University Libraries, Montreal, Canada. http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/warposters/ Topics: Art, Arts and Humanities, World War II Last updated Jul 23, 2002 Christmas at War: Experiences From the First and Second World Wars
This exhibit illustrates "how [some] people spent Christmas during the First and Second World Wars." Illustrated essays cover themes of family, food, gifts, entertainment, and goodwill. Include sound clips and transcripts of personal experiences of the wars. From the Imperial War Museum, London. http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/6/christmas/index.htm Topics: Christmas, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Dec 14, 2007 The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
This is "an online repository of over 4000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research" about World War I poetry. Browse collections for specific poets such as Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas. Also features additional media collections, educational materials (designed for the British educational system), and separate archive of user-submitted items. From the University of Oxford. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/ Topics: Poetry, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Mar 17, 2009 Gallipoli
A history of the 1915-1916 trench warfare debacle on Turkey's Gallipoli peninsula, with information for visitors to the sites of this and other World War I battles in the region. Includes Turkish history from 1908 to the campaign, lists of slang words and place names, the role of ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps), and contemporary and modern photographs of regions discussed, including the Balkan Pits. http://user.glo.be/~snelders/ Topics: History, History By Place, Military, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Feb 21, 2004 The Great War
This World War I site includes history and analysis of the war; overviews of the battles of Gallipoli, Verdun, the Somme, and Passchendaele with excerpts from veteran's letters and audio interviews; a ten minute video showing film footage and photographs from the battlefields; and information on the Russian revolution, war memorials, and poets who died in the war. Produced in 1998 by BBC News in observance of the 80th anniversary of the Armistice. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/10/98/world_war_i/197437.stm Topics: Correspondence, Holidays and Observances Individually, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Poetry, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Sep 8, 2009 The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
Companion to an eight-part series about "The World War of 1914-18 -- The Great War, as contemporaries called it -- [which] was the first man-made catastrophe of the 20th century." Features historical essays, timeline, maps, historian commentary, and an updated discussion of how impacts of the war shape the 21st century (such as world terrorism, immigration, European Union, and the use of military force). A KCET/BBC co-production in association with the Imperial War Museum. http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/ Topics: Wars & Conflicts Last updated Oct 28, 2008 A Guide to World War I Materials
"This guide compiles links to World War I resources throughout the Library of Congress Web site. In addition, this guide provides links to external Web sites focusing on World War I and a bibliography containing selections for both general and younger readers." Resources include photo collections, "Today in History" pages, sheet music, radio broadcasts, and more. Compiled by Kenneth Drexler, Digital Reference Specialist at the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/wwi/wwi.html Topics: Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jun 13, 2006 Internment of Ukrainians in Canada 1914-1920
This site intends "to inform the general population about the Canadian Government's internment of Ukrainian Canadians in Concentration Camps in Canada during the period of 1914-1920." Includes photos, a map of internment operations in Canada, sample internment documents, requests to the Canadian government for restitution, contemporary reactions from Canadian political parties, related articles, and a bibliography. http://www.infoukes.com/history/internment/ Topics: History, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Nov 28, 2004 Lawrence of Arabia: The Life, The Legend
Companion to a 2005 exhibit at the Imperial War Museum (London) about British military leader T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). Features brief essays (accompanied by photos) about his childhood and youth, war years (1914-1918), peace and diplomacy, his book "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," his time in the Royal Air Force (RAF), retirement and later years, and his legacy and reputation after his death. http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/54/Lawrence/Exhibition/index.htm Topics: Authors by Region, History By Place, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Oct 26, 2005 Lost Poets of the Great War
Contains brief biographies and poems of World War I poets Rupert Brooke, John McCrae, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Alan Seeger, and Edward Thomas. Includes a chronology of World War I, information on casualties, and a bibliography. From a professor at the Emory University English Department. http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/ Topics: Authors by Region, Literary Movements and Periods, Military, Notable People, Poetry, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Nov 1, 2004 The Lusitania Medallion
This exhibit describes the Lusitania Medallion, a commemorative medal "privately issued in Germany to mark the circumstances of the sinking of the Cunard liner RSM Lusitania in May 1915." Text and images illustrate the development of the medallion and its role in an anti-German propaganda campaign by the British intelligence. From the Imperial War Museum, Great Britain. http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/23/lusitan/index.htm Topics: History By Place, Transportation, Wars & Conflicts Last updated May 2, 2007 Lusitania Online
Information about the design and history of the R.M.S. Lusitania , its sinking by a German U-boat torpedo (May 7, 1915), and the rescue of its survivors. There is also a biographical article on Captain William Thomas Turner, her last master. There is also information about the submarine that attacked her, U20 , and its captain, Kapitan-Leutnant Walther Schwieger. http://www.lusitania.net/ Topics: Transportation, Wars & Conflicts Last updated May 22, 2002 The National World War One Museum
The website for this museum (designated by Congress and opened December 2006 in Kansas City, Missouri) features exhibit highlights and historical essays about World War I (such as about "Christmastime during the Great War"). Provides a chronology of the war, personal histories, a virtual tour of the museum, facts about the Liberty Memorial tower in Kansas City, documents and images from the museum archives, and other material about World War I. http://www.libertymemorialmuseum.org Topics: Wars & Conflicts Last updated Dec 11, 2006 Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures
"The collection includes an illustrated history of World War I selected from newspaper rotogravure sections that graphically documents the people, places, and events important to the war." Includes a gallery of selected images, a timeline, essays about the war and the rotogravure process, and searchable and browsable rotogravure pages from newspapers. From the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/ Topics: Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Technology, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Nov 15, 2004 Oregon at War!: World War I and the Oregon Experience
"This exhibit and learning resource consists of over 100 Web pages and hundreds of images and documents describing Oregon and World War I. It focuses on the lives of ordinary Oregonians and how they responded to the challenges of world war." Searchable. From the Oregon State Archives. http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/exhibits/war/ Topics: U.S. History By Place, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Nov 11, 2004 The Poster War: Allied Propaganda Art of The First World War
These 46 posters from the United States, Great Britain, France, and Canada illustrate three themes: comparing symbols used "to identify and vilify the enemy with those which were used to unify and encourage Allied society," soldiers as propaganda subjects, and home-front images. Posters may be browsed from thumbnail images, but to obtain artist information they must be accessed from the exhibit tour pages. In English and French from the Provincial Museum of Alberta. http://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/vexhibit/warpost/english/home.htm Topics: Arts and Humanities, Arts and Humanities, Communications, Government, Government, Politics, Wars & Conflicts Last updated May 26, 2005 Propaganda Postcards of the Great War
"The site features a collection of war-themed postal cards produced during World War 1 (1914 - 1919)." Includes annotated images of hundreds of postcards, information about selected artists, and links to related sites. Searchable and browsable. Available in several languages. "All cards shown [on the site] are from private collections." http://www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com/ Topics: Collectors & Collecting, Communications, Government, Politics, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Nov 3, 2004 Publications of the War
This site presents examples of World War I publications such as "newspapers, propaganda material...comical gifts" and postcards. Most notable is a complete run of The Hydra, a newsletter the poet Wilfred Owen contributed to during his stay at Craiglockhart War Hospital. From Oxford University. http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/pubs/ Topics: Communications, Government, Military, Poetry, Politics, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Aug 29, 2004 The Stars and Stripes, 1918-1919
"From February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919, by order of General John J. Pershing, the United States Army published a newspaper for its forces in France, The Stars and Stripes. This online collection, presented by the Serial and Government Publications Division of the Library of Congress, includes the complete seventy-one-week run of the newspaper's World War I edition." Searchable and browsable. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/ Topics: Newspapers, Newspapers by Place, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Oct 6, 2009 T. E. Lawrence Studies
Extensive materials about Thomas Edward Lawrence (British World War I soldier and author who was also known as "Lawrence of Arabia"). Features a biographical summary, timeline, full text of his authorized biography for 1888-1914, primary sources (selected correspondence and writings, including the 1926 abridgment of Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"), photos, articles about Lawrence, and related material. From a historian and author. http://telawrence.info/ Topics: Authors by Region, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jul 2, 2008 An Unfortunate Region
"A website about the Great War battlefields and individuals," with photographs of battle sites, cemeteries and graves, and debris (personal items, weapons, munitions). Information about individuals may include biographies, photographs, excerpts from letters and journals, and details of service (country, regiment, place of death, etc.). Also find news about exhibitions, threatened sites, accidents involving explosions of old munitions, recent identification of human remains, and other current events involving World War I battlefields. http://www.unfortunate-region.org/ Topics: Photograph Collections: History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Apr 21, 2005 An Unfortunate Region: Selected Links
This list of World War I Web pages includes both general resources and specific topics (battlefields and battlefield debris, weaponry, military units, personnel, societies, cemeteries, memorials, tanks, and more). Entries are briefly annotated with descriptive and, in some cases, evaluative comments. http://www.xs4all.nl/~aur/layout/frames.htm?links/links.htm Topics: Wars & Conflicts Last updated Dec 30, 2003 The Versailles Treaty
The complete 1919 Treaty of Versailles. Includes suggested readings; maps, charts, photos, and cartoons; and links to other related historical resources. Maintained by a history professor at the University of San Diego. http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/text/versaillestreaty/vercontents.html Topics: Government, International Governments, International Law, Treaties, & Agreements, Wars & Conflicts Last updated May 29, 2005 War Diaries of the First World War
"This database contains the digitised War Diaries of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) units. ... The War Diaries are not personal diaries, rather they are a historical record of a unit's administration, operations and activities during the First World War." Searchable. "Online Help" includes information on interpreting the diaries. From the National Library of Canada and National Archives of Canada. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/02/020152_e.html Topics: History, History By Place, Nonfiction by Genre, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jan 19, 2009 War on the Walls: Posters From the George F. Tyler WWI Collection
"This exhibition presents selections from a collection of over 1,500 World War I posters currently housed in Temple University Libraries' Special Collections. ... The posters provide a graphic portrayal of Allied propaganda used to educate the public and enlist support for the war effort. In addition, they serve as examples of the art, design, and printing techniques of the period. The selections are accompanied by primary source material and commentary." http://exhibitions.library.temple.edu/ww1/ Topics: Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Communications, K-12 Education, Wars & Conflicts Last updated May 13, 2004 War Poster Collection
A collection of nearly 100 posters from World War I and II. Searchable, and browsable by topic (American, British, Dutch and German, national security, Red Cross, war bonds, women in war, World War I, World War II). From the University of Washington Libraries, Digital Collections. http://content.lib.washington.edu/postersweb/ Topics: Art, Arts and Humanities, Wars & Conflicts, World War II Last updated Sep 19, 2004 Who Killed The Red Baron?
This companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) NOVA program investigates "the most famous aviation mystery of World War I" involving "the notorious Baron Manfred von Richthofen." Includes articles, competing theories about the incident, a slideshow on the aerial arms race, a teacher's guide, and related resources. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/redbaron/ Topics: Mysteries and More, Notable People, Transportation, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Dec 22, 2005 The Wilfred Owen Association
Considered one of the great war poets, few of Owen's war poems were published during his lifetime, but poet Siegfried Sassoon arranged for the publication of some of Owen's poems after his death; they are studied and admired for their strong themes today. This site includes the poems (with background and commentary), a chronology of his life, a virtual tour with photographs of important places in his short life, and links to other Web resources. http://www.wilfredowen.org.uk/home/ Topics: Authors by Region, Literary Movements and Periods, Notable People, Poetry, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jul 29, 2009 The World War I Document Archive
Primary documents of WWI, most in English, assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). Includes conventions, treaties, official papers, documents by year, personal reminiscences, and a biographical dictionary. From the library at Brigham Young University (BYU). http://www.gwpda.org/ Topics: International Law, Treaties, & Agreements, Libraries & Archives by Type, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Feb 3, 2009 World War I Soldiers Remembered
This collection offers a glimpse into the trials and triumphs of Washington state "soldiers of World War I as revealed through their letters, records and photographs." Includes biographical profiles, maps, artwork, photographs, and documents from the Spokane Public Library and the Office of the Secretary of State. Requires download of free DJVU Viewer software. Also includes a searchable database of service records. Presented by the Washington State Library and Washington State Archives. http://www.secstate.wa.gov/history/ww1/ Topics: Military, Nonfiction by Genre, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Oct 14, 2004 World War I: Trenches on the Web
This site features timelines; biographies; photos; images of maps, posters, and artwork; trivia; information on weaponry; and more. Includes audio clips of early 20th century popular music and national anthems, a discussion forum, reading lists, and related links. Note: This ambitious site contains some dead links. http://www.worldwar1.com/ Topics: Photograph Collections: History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jul 3, 2005 |
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