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World War I
 Websites presented in alphabetical order 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 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 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 Red Scare (1918-1921)
An image database about the McCarthy Era, documenting "the whole breadth of experiences from this period of which the anti-red hysteria was one symptom." Contains about 300 photographs and political cartoons. From librarian Leo Robert Klein at CUNY. http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/redscare/default.htm Topics: Photograph Collections: History, Political Parties & Theories, United States History Last updated Jun 22, 2007 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 Veterans History Project
This site describes a project to collect "oral history interviews, memoirs, letters, diaries, photographs, and other original materials from veterans of World Wars I and II, and the Korean, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf Wars and the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts (2001-present)." Includes guidelines for participating in the project, including tips for interviewing veterans and writing memoirs. From the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/vets/ Topics: Communities & Groups, History, Military, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, United States History Last updated Apr 3, 2005 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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