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Chapter 21: The United States and the "Great War," 1914-1920

Links

    A Soldier's Diary,
"Electronic text of the diary of Benjamin Edgar Cruzan, a bugler with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. Students can read the text and view photographs of the war and images of the diary pages. This document offers a rare glimpse through the eyes of an American soldier and gives the student a personal perspective on the major events of the war."*

    American Women Peace Envoys in 1915, http://womhist.binghamton.edu/hague/intro.htm
"A brief essay on the International Conference of Women for a Permanent Peace at the Hague in 1915, as well as relevant primary documents. Part of the State University of New York at Binghamton's online women's history project, the site gives special attention to the efforts of Jane Addams, Emily Greene Balch, and Alice Hamilton."*

    Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election,
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml
"A collection of fifty-nine sound recordings of speeches by American leaders at the turn of the century on issues and events surrounding the First World War and the presidential election of 1920. The recordings are from the American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress, and include speeches by Warren G. Harding, James Cox, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel Gompers, Henry Cabot Lodge, and John J. Pershing."*

    The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century,
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/index.html
"Homepage of the PBS series entitled, The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century. The story of the war is told through excerpts from interviews with well-known World War I historians talking about various aspects of the war. These interviews can be viewed by topic, series episode, or by historian. The site also includes an interactive timeline and maps and a list of Web links on World War I."*

    The World War I Document Archive,
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi
"A database of state papers and other documents from all of the belligerent nations of World War I. Maintained by members of the World War I Military History List in cooperation with Brigham Young University, the collection can be searched by year or subject, and includes an image database, memoirs, a biographical dictionary, secondary commentaries on special topics, and links to related sites."*

    World War I: Trenches on the Web,
http://www.worldwar1.com/
"A vast multimedia site dedicated to the Great War. Created by Mike Iavarone, the site contains a document archive, a gallery of artwork from the war, detailed maps of the various theaters of action, a photo archive, a collection of posters from the war, a timeline, and war trivia."*