Social Studies Links:
World War I
Address & Description - Comprehensive Sites
Site
BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/
Curriculum Bites: World War I – includes articles, letters & diaries, games,
poems, and lesson plans
BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/
World Wars In-Depth: World War One – articles, primary source documents,
movies, virtual tours
Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/
American Memory: Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1913 –
1919 - essays and images
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
Address & Description - Primary Documents
Site
http://www.gwpda.org/
Great War Primary
Document Archive
Wide range of primary documents and photos indexed by topic, year, type, etc.
A less recently updated version of this wiki can be found at
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/ and is stored on the Brigham Young University server.
Europeana
http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/europeana-1914-1918en?utm_source=19141918_exhibition&utm_campaign=carousel
Untold Stories from the First World War: Photos, letters and other memorabilia.
Annotated images in themed digital exhibits.
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/britpost/britpost.htm
Georgetown
University
British Posters of World War One
HistoryTeacher.Net
http://www.historyteacher.net/AHAP/Weblinks/AHAP_Weblinks21.htm
World War I – web links and primary source documents
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook38.html
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://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/wwipos/
World War I posters - select “view all” for thumbnails of collection
Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/
American Leaders Speak: Recordings from WWI
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
Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/html/search/search.html
Veterans History Project: a search for WWI/digital collections and transcripts
yields sixteen letters
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 and well-indexed and organized collection of WWI era postcards
http://rutlandhs.k12.vt.us/jpeterso/uboatcar.htm
Rutland Public
Schools, Vermont
World War I Political Cartoons – part of a faculty webpage
https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/dasearch/World%2520war%252C%252019141918?mode=basic
University of
Minnesota
U Media Archive: Search results for “World War, 1914-1918” - photos,
postcard, posters, newspapers, etc. See right sidebar to narrow search results.
http://library.sc.edu/digital/collections/grtwr.html
University of South
Carolina
Great War Collection: Posters, letters, postcards. Great primary source images.
Emory University
http://beck.library.emory.edu/greatwar/
The Great War – 1914 – 1918: Postcards, poetry
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 WWI and other
conflicts. Advertisements
http://www.authentichistory.com
Images, recordings and some essays. This is a private site, cited by some
university history department sites.
The Authentic
History Center
Trenches on the Web
http://www.worldwar1.com/reflib.htm
Creatively indexed collection of information and images. This vast site,
recommended by the National Archives, is a private site with a few
advertisements.
FirstWar.com
http://www.firstworldwar.com/
Well indexed collection of overview articles, documents, photographs, videos,
posters, and more. This site, recommended by the National Archives, is a
private site with many advertisements.
Christmas Truce
1914
http://www.christmastruce.co.uk/
Private site devoted to a particular WWI event
Canadian Great War
Project
http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/index.asp
L & diaries. This is a private site, cited by some university history department
sites.
WarDiary.com
http://war-diary.com/index_1_en.htm
Unedited transcripts of war diaries and letters. This is a private German site,
cited by some university history department sites.
K. A. Meier
Updated March 2013