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World War One

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  • Library of Congress World War One materials
  • 100th anniversary of start of war (UK National Archives)
  • ​Best resources for learning about the war
  • The Great War: A Visual History
  • Postcards from the Great War 
  • 1914-1918: The Great War and Beyond (another excellent collection of postcards)
  • WW1 and Shaping of the 20th century
  • World War One by the Numbers (infographic)
  • 14 Reasons World War One Started
  • ​How Europe went to war in 1914 (Imperial War Museum)
  • 20 Key Events of World War One (BBC)
  • 40 maps that explain WW1
  • World War 1 (Encyclopedia Britannica)
  • British Library's World War One site, with essays by historians and many original documents.
  • Fronts...
    • How did Eastern Front differ from Western Front?
    • Italian Front
    • African Front
  • International Encyclopedia of the First World War
  • Life in the trenches (Medium)
  • Maps that show the development of the war (useful to compare casualties)
  • Verdun: Hell on Earth (article by David Reynolds)
  • Battle of the Somme (Imperial War Museum)
  • Massive Railroad Networks Made the War Possible (Medium.com)
  • Brutal realities of World War One (Facing History and Ourselves)
  • Eyewitness to history (collection of primary sources about the war)
  • How the world went to war (Imperial War Museum, general introduction)
  • Podcast: The world made by World War One (with Isabel Hull)
  • World War 1 in Photos (Atlantic; the magazine also published a commemorative issue with original documents and photos); part ii
  • BBC: World War One (includes interactive games)
  • Origins of World War One
  • Story of the Great War (for young readers, pro-Allies, written in 1919)
  • Over the top (from the Canadian War Museum, an interactive multimedia story in which you make the decisions that affect whether you survive the trenches or die there)
  • Maps of the war (National Archives)
  • Casualties (mobilized, wounded, killed); general statistics of the war
  • Experiencing War (Veterans' History Project)
  • How did soldiers survive the trenches (I Wonder series, BBC)
  • World War One At Home (BBC)
  • Encyclopedia of the First World War
  • BBC - World War One (points of view)​
  • Battle of the Somme (Imperial War Museum, with sources)​
  • WWI newspaper reports by D.H. Lawrence and others, read aloud
  • Food and the Great War (four pages of annotated postcards illustrating all aspects of the problem of food shortages in Europe)
  • Illustrated History of the Great War (from Punch magazine)
  • World War I Documents (Mount Holyoke)
  • World War I Documents (Brigham Young)
  • The Heritage of The Great War 1914 1918
  • Trenches on the Web - Reference Library
  • The Great War (PBS movie)
  • The World War I Document Archive
  • The National Archives Learning Curve, The Great War (original film)
  • The Middle East and the West: WWI and Beyond
  • Killer Flu: Background - PBS
  • Influenza, 1918 (American Experience)
  • Spanish flu (National Geographic)
  • The First World War
  • Versailles Treaty
  • On This Day: Versailles Treaty Signed​
  • Casualties (numbers, graphs)
  • Reconstruction of sound of the last moments of the war and the silence that followed; related article in Quartz
Armenian Genocide
  • Armenian Genocide: Analyzing historical evidence (free log-in for book-length PDF on the genocide)
  • Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire (eyewitness account)
  • Armenian genocide (Facing history and ourselves)
Propaganda
  • World War One propaganda themes (British Library)
  • Miscellaneous (mostly anti-German) propaganda cartoons
  • World War One posters (Library of Congress)
  • American Artists View the Great War (Library of Congress)
  • Propaganda: Images of Nationalism​
Visual arts and songs
  • Nine ways artists responded to the war (Tate)
  • Putting art on the map (Imperial War Museum)
  • World War One the the Visual Arts (Met)
  • Painters and World War One
  • World War I image collections (Google Cultural Institute), including works of art from the Imperial War Museums
  • Music clips - patriotic songs from the Great War
  • Dogs of War (satirical maps of European countries depicted as various animals, 1914-5)
  • Songs from the First World War (primary sources)
Poetry
  • Poetry of World War 1 (Poetry Foundation Web site, an anthology)
  • First World War Digital Poetry Archive
  • First World War Poetry
  • World War I Poetry (Halsall)
John McCrae
  • In Flanders' Field; another version
Wilfried Owen
  • Dulce et Decorum Est
  • Disabled
  • Anthem for doomed youth (interpretation) (YouTube)
Siegfried Sassoon
  • Does it matter?youtu.be/TGN6BP0i4kU
  • Attack
  • Counter-attack
From Voices of War, a documentary about the war poets
  • Owen
  • Sassoon

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