WWI Resources

The National WWI Museum and Memorial

Main page

French National Library (Bibliothèque Nationale de France):

Main page; or majors WWI events and themes through images

• Varied images from WWI: from the Somme, the Dardanelles, destructions, soldiers
• French songs during WWI: about revenge, fighting, or propaganda; support to the soldiers or their life on the front; about the daily life of the population; songs about victory.

British Library:

Main page

U.K. National Archives:

Main page

First World War 100

National Library of Scotland

First World War: Official Photographs

European History Primary Sources

Search page for WWI resources in English

Europeana Collections

Main page

World Digital Library

World War I set

BBC

Main page

• WWI Trench virtual tour

PBS American Experience: The Great War

Main page

Post on Soviet propaganda posters

Smithsonian Institute: National Museum of American History:

Main page;

• Selling Americans on World War I online collection

Smithsonian Institute: National Air and Space Museum:

• their page on "Exploring Duty and Social Class in World War I" (La Grande Illusion is available through the Sacramento Public Library)
• Archives: a soldier's scrapbook and a soldier's experience
• U.S. flyers from propaganda balloons

Library of Congress: World War I: A Resource Guide

Main page; Teacher's Guide & Primary Sources; Student Discovery Sets

• World War I Posters: "approximately 1,900 posters created between 1914 and 1920. Most relate directly to the war, but some German posters date from the post-war period and illustrate events such as the rise of Bolshevism and Communism, the 1919 General Assembly election and various plebiscites"
• Newspaper Clippings, 1914 to 1926: "the clippings yield significant information about the political, social, cultural, and economic impact of the war as it is taking place and its aftermath"
• American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I
• Associated Press News Dispatches, 1915 to 1930
• websites recommended by the Library of Congress
• Experiencing War: Stories from the Veterans History Project

Other sources

The Treaty of Versailles - via the Yale Law School's The Avalon Project

Propaganda Postcards of the Great War

The Great War Association

Association of the United States Army: World War I

The United States World War One Centennial Commission - Educational Resources

WW1 Historical Association

Order of the First World War

40 maps that explain World War I

The Great War 1914-1918

America and World War 1: American Military Camp Newspapers by Accessible Archives

(log in info: User name: NatomasCharter -- Password: NCS1)

World War I Pamphlet Collection at Penn Libraries

British War poet Siegfried Sassoon's WWI journals

For Teachers

National History Day: Teaching World War I

National Education Association: World War 1 Resources

National Archives / DocsTeach: World War I Primary Sources and Online Teaching Activities

British Library: World War One Teaching resources

Primary Resources - Artifacts