Resource Guide:
World War I
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- World War I Document Archive
- World War I Digital Collections
- World War I Records National Archive
- Papers of Woodrow Wilson (Presidency Project)
- Wilson eLibrary
- Marshall Foundation Digital Library
- European History Primary Sources
- International Society for First World War Studies
- Photos of the Great War
- World War I The Medical Front
- The Great War Society
- Smithsonian Magazine World War I Articles
- The Great War: 1914-1918
- Digital Collections at University of Mary Washington
- International Encyclopedia of the First World War
- National Archives World War I Centennial
- National Archives (UK) First World War
- The National World War I Museum and Memorial
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Economic Aspects
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Monuments
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Public Opinion
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Women
- Triple Alliance, 1882
- Triple Entente, 1907
- Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920)
- Versailles, Treaty of, June 28, 1919 (Germany)
- Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945
- William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
- Schlieffen Plan
- Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916
- Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919
- Intrenchments
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- German History: Journal of the German Historical Society
- The American Historical Review
- British Journal of Military History
- Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences
- Central European History
- European Journal of Political Research
- War and Society
- War in History
- The Historical Journal
- Naval War College Review
- War, Literature & the Arts
- Journal of Social History
- Journal of Contemporary History
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| The eve of 1914 | D 515 .W576 |
| On the battlefield of memory: the First World War and American remembrance, 1919-1941 | D 524.7 .U6 T78 2010 |
| Civilians in a world at war, 1914-1918 | D 525.6 P76 2010 |
| The First World War in posters | D 522.25 .D36 |
| Policies and opinions at Paris, 1919: Wilsonian diplomacy, the Versailles Peace, and French public opinion | D 644 .N6 |
| Echoes of distant thunder : life in the United States, 1914-1918 | E 780 .E55 |
| Americans all! foreign-born soldiers in World War I | e-Book |