Resources

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).