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World War I

Websites

First World War propaganda posters a collection of propaganda posters from the nations that fought in the war, including the U.S.

"Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798 - 1993," by Ellen C. Collier, Specialist in U.S. Foreign Policy,
Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division, Washington DC: Congressional Research Service -- Library of Congress -- October 7, 1993

First World War.com - A multimedia history of World War One

Art of the First World War

The Western Front, 1914-1918

The PBS Production, "The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century"

World War I Political Cartoons

American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
American Memory, Library of Congress.
Consists of 59 sound recordings of speeches by American leaders produced from 1918 to 1920 on the Nation’s Forum record label. The speeches—by such prominent public figures as Warren G. Harding, James M. Cox, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel Gompers, Henry Cabot Lodge, John J. Pershing, Will H. Hays, A. Mitchell Palmer, and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise—deal for the most part with issues and events related to World War I and the 1920 presidential election. This site includes photographs of speakers and of the actual recording disk labels, as well as text versions of the speeches.

Documents

Videos:

All quiet on the western front [videorecording] / Universal Pictures Corp (2001).

Maryland in the great war [videorecording] : over there over here / producer, Marilyn M. Phillips; writer, Helen Jean Burn Owings Mills, Md. : MPT , c1996. (58 min.)

Key Readings:

Leffler, Melvyn, The Specter of Communism. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1994): 3-33.

Leffler, Melvyn, The Elusive Quest: America's Pursuit of European Stability and French Security, 1919-1933, Chapel Hill, 1979.

Williams, William Appleman, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (New York: WW Norton, 1972): 90-108.

Kennedy, Ross. "Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and an American Conception of National Security," Diplomatic History, Winter 2001, 1-31.

Chambers, John, ed., The Eagle and the Dove: The American Peace Movement and United States Foreign Policy, 1900-1922, Syracuse, 1991.

Gardner, Lloyd, Safe for Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 1913-1923, NY, 1984.

Ninkovich, Frank, The Wilsonian Century, Chicago, 1999.

Cohen, Warren, Empire Without Tears: American Foreign Policy, 1921-1933, NY, 1987.

Costigliola, Frank, Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with Europe, 1919-1933, Ithaca, 1985.

Foglesong, David, America's Secret War against Bolshevism: U.S. Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920, Chapel Hill, 1995.

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