Social Studies Links:
World War I
Address & Description - Comprehensive Sites
Site
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/greatwar/
National Archives –
UK
The Great War 1914 – 1918 – education department exhibit with worksheets and
teacher notes
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/index.htm
National Archives –
UK
The First World War – Sources for History - research and learning department
exhibit
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/
The Great War and the Shaping of the 21st Century – includes lesson plans.
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http://spartacus-educational.com/FWW.htm
Spartacus
Educational
First WW, British perspective, wide range of detailed information, many of
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Address & Description - Primary Documents
Site
art-ww1.com
http://www.memorial-caen.fr/10EVENT/EXPO1418/gb/index2.html
Art of the First World War: UNESCO sponsored exhibition of art from major
European museums
BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25332968
Captioned slide show WWI propaganda posters
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25356306 Short illustrated article gives
basic information on British propaganda during WWI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25422905
Captioned slide show WWI – Western Front – short, some pictures of trenches
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z8sssbk
Interactive information on life in the trenches. Opening images involve
cartoons, but other portions include annotated photographs.
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
Brigham Young
University
World War I Document Archive - wide range of primary documents indexed by
topic, year, type, etc.
Georgetown
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/exhibition/take-sword-justice-british-posters- University
world-war-one-roger-n-mohovich
British Posters of World War One
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/exhibition/first-call-american-posters-worldwar-one-collection-roger-n-mohovich
American posters of World War One
http://www.greatwar.nl/
This private site contains a wide range of images, from graphic war photos to
political cartoons.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook38.html
Heritage of the Great
War, Rob
Ruggenberg, ed.
Netherlands
Internet History
Sourcebook
Links to WWI primary source documents
http://faculty.kirkwood.edu/ryost/stereographs.htm
Kirkwood
Community College,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
World War One Resources from Robinson M. Yost includes postcards,
stereographs, and lantern slides
Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html
American Memory: The Stars and Stripes – the American Soldiers’ Newspaper
of WWI, 1918 – 1919
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/
American Memory: Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1913 –
1919 - essays and images
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/wwipos/
World War I posters - select “view all” for thumbnails of collection
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww1.htm
Mount Holyoke
College,
Massachusetts
Documents of WWI – scroll down the page to find an index of primary source
documents listed by year
http://www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com/
Propaganda
Cards.com
Propaganda Postcards of the Great War WW1 - this privately maintained site
has a huge collection of WWI era postcards. It can be an odd site to navigate,
but it has some interesting images.
http://www.memorial-caen.fr/10EVENT/EXPO1418/gb/index2.html
Memorial de Caen,
France
Memorial de Caen, France: Art of the First World War: UNESCO sponsored
exhibition of art from major European museums
Social Studies.org
http://www.socialstudies.org/system/files/publications/mll/31/MLL31.pdf
Scroll to pages 9-16 of this pdf for a lesson plan, “WWI Posters: Thinking
Critically about History and the Media”. Contains reproductions of four US
posters with very thorough annotations.
Temple University
http://digital.library.temple.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16002coll9
Allied Posters of WWI – complete collection
Annotated exhibit:
http://gamma.library.temple.edu/exhibits/exhibits/show/george-tyler-wwi-posterexhibi
http://umedia.lib.umn.edu/warsearch
University of
Minnesota
A Summons to Comradeship: WWI & II Posters and Postcards – indexed by
period and region
http://library.sc.edu/spcoll/hist/gwposters/posterintro.html
Artists and the Posters of the Great War
University of South
Carolina
War-letters.com
http://www.war-letters.com/
World War I Letters: First Person Accounts and Primary Source Documents This privately owned Irish site is not particularly easy to navigate. However, it
does contain scans and transcriptions of letters sent during World War I and
other conflicts. Advertisements
K. A. Meier
Updated March 2016