Below is a set of online and print sources about the First World War. Be sure to check back for updates to the list!
Online Resources
Primary Resource Collections
• Online World War One Indexes and Records
• Florida World War I Service Cards (via Florida Memory)
• Library of Congress: World War I
• Military Battles and Campaign Collection from the Library of Congress (Search: World War; 1910-1919)
• The World War I Document Archive
• World War I Photography (Selected Posters & Photographs from the National Archives)
Digital Exhibits
• US Army Center of Military History: World War 1 Centennial Website
• Florida’s Commemoration of the Great War (World War Memorials Map by Rebecca Schwandt)
Podcasts/Radio/YouTube
• BackStory Radio
• The Great War Channel on YouTube
Educator Resources
• National WWI Museum and Memorial
Books / Chapters
• Budreau Lisa M., Bodies of War: World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America, 1919-1933 (New York University Press, 2009).
• Chambers II, John W., To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America (Free Press, 1987).
• Coffman, Edward M., The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I (Oxford University Press, 1968).
• Ferrell, Robert H. America’s Deadliest Battle: Meuse-Argonne, 1918 (University Press of Kansas, 2007).
• Keene, Jennifer D., Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).
• Kennedy, David M., Over Here: The First World War and American Society (Oxford University Press, 1980).
• Shenk, Gerald, Work or Fight!: Race, Gender, and the Draft in World War One (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
• Slotkin, Richard, Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality, 1st ed. (New York, NY: Henry Holt, 2006).
• Trout, Steven, On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919-1941 (University of Alabama Press, 2011).
• Williams, Chad L., Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2010).