World War I
Primary Source Learning: World War I Teaching Resources
Collections
- Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919
- World War History: Newspaper Clippings, 1914 to 1926
- The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers’ Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919
- World War I Sheet Music
- American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I
- Panoramic photographs from World War I
- World War I photographs
Online exhibitions & Story Maps
- Documenting World War I: The Great War through the Lens of the Law Library’s Collections
- Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
- Memory Gallery: World War I
- World War I: American Artists View the Great War
Prints & photographs
- World War I in pictures: select images & reference aid
- World War I posters
- World War I clothing-related posters
- World War I photographs
- World War I in Photos The Atlantic
Primary source sets
- World War I individual primary source set 18 sources + teacher guide
- World War I song recordings
- World War I sheet music
- World War I books
- World War I manuscripts & mixed materials
- Theodore Roosevelt films related to World War I
- Modern U.S. legislation related to World War I legislation
- The Bonus Army
- George Cohan & “Over There”
- Hello Girls
- Robert Lansing Papers
- League of Nations
- Lusitania Lost
- Paris Peace Conference
- General John J. Pershing
- Saint-Mihiel Offensive
- Uncle Sam & James Montgomery Flagg
- Woodrow Wilson
Chronicling America Historic Newspapers
Individual articles
- “Heir to the Austrian Throne Assassinated” New-York Tribune (New York [N.Y.]), June 29, 1914
- “Liner Lusitania Sunk by a German Submarine,” Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia [Pa.]), May 07, 1915
- “U.S. Officially at War,” The Daily Missourian (Columbia, Mo.), April 06, 1917
- “War Officially Ends,” The Washington Times (Washington [D.C.]), June 28, 1919
- “Germany Has Surrendered; World War Ended at 6 A.M.,” New-York Tribune (New York [N.Y.]), November 11, 1918
Collections
- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- Female Spies in World War I
- Lafayette Escadrille: American Aviators
- Sinking of the Lusitania
- Tanks in World War I
- Treaty of Versailles
- World War I Armistice
- World War I Declarations
- World War I Poetry
- Zimmerman Telegram
Veteran’s History Project
Story collections
- World War I: The Great War
- World War I Remembered: 100 Years Later
- In the Trenches
- Above & Beyond the Battlefield
Individual stories
- Eugene A. Curtin
- Hillie John Franz
- Theodore Kohls
- William Frederick Nice
- Vincent Cornelius Reed
- Harold W. Riley
- Frederick Clarence Stilson
- John Caspar Wister
Stories from America’s Library
- U.S. Entered World War I, April 6, 1917
- American Forces under General Pershing Launched First Major Offensive in WWI, September 12, 1918
- The Paris Peace Conference, January 18, 1919
- World War I Ended With the Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919
Library Blog Posts about World War I
- Worlds Revealed: Geography and Maps
- Teaching with Library of Congress
- Picture This prints & photographs
- Now See Hear! audiovisual
- Library of Congress Blog
- Inside Adams science, technology, business
- In the Muse performing arts
- In Custodia Legis law
- Headlines and Heroes
- Folklife Today Blog
- 4 Corners of the World: International Collections and Studies at the Library of Congress
More World War I articles
- Ganne, Alford, Holst, and Others: Music of World War I NLS Music Notes March 30, 2017
- Women and the War Effort Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers’ Newspaper of World War I, 1918 to 1919
- World War I (popular songs) collection article
- World War I Centennial issue Library of Congress Magazine Mar.-Apr. 2017
- Library of Congress Medium articles
- America and the Great War April 21, 2017
- Joseph Pennell: The Artist at War Library of Congress April 28, 2017
- Researching African-American Soldiers in WWI – America and the Great War April 24, 2017
- World War I: Time to Recall What This War Was About April 4, 2017
- WWI: Belgian Children Thank the American People Library of Congress Medium April 21, 2017
European resources
- British Library: World War One
- First World War Film Collections European Film Archives