American Military & War Primary Source Collections: First World War
First World War Primary Sources
- World War History: Newspaper Clippings, 1914 to 1926Newspaper clippings covering contemporary news reports, war-related editorials, features, cartoons, photos, maps, and more
- Great War ArchiveWWI poetry, photographs, audio, film, official documents, propaganda posters, memorabilia, etc
- Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918 to 1919The complete seventy-one-week run of The Stars and Stripes World War I edition
- Internet Archive WWI documentsVarious primary source documents on WWI archived by the Internet Archive
- Veteran's History Project: World War IPersonal accounts, photos, letters, and recordings of American veterans of World War I
First World War Primary Source Directories
- The World War I Document ArchiveArchive of primary documents from World War One organized by year, document type, country, and topic
- WWI on the WebHuge list of primary source documents on the war from U.C. San Diego History Department. Archived on the Wayback Machine.
First World War: Books of Primary Sources
Race and ethnicity in the First World War
- Commemorating Race and Empire in the First World War CentenaryEbook. The 'Great War for Civilisation' was more than a European conflict. It was a global war spanning Asia, Africa and beyond. Drawing on original archival research in several languages and employing multidisciplinary frames of analysis, this innovative volume explores how race and empire were commemorated during the First World War Centenary.
- We return fighting : World War I and the shaping of modern Black identityPresents artifacts, medals, and photographs alongside powerful essays that together highlight the efforts of African Americans during World War I.
- Freedom struggles : African Americans and World War IFor many of the 200,000 African American soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI, encounters with French civilians and colonial African troops led them to imagine a world beyond Jim Crow. This work explores how WWI mobilized a generation.
- The Politics of Race in WWIEssay by Jennifer Keene, from The World War I Reader, edited by Michael S. Neiberg, New York University Press, 2006.
- The unknown soldiers; Black American troops in World War IThe history of black troops who participated in World War I.
- A more unbending battle : the Harlem Hellfighters' struggle for freedom in WWI and equality at homeThe untold story of the Harlem Hellfighters, the all-black World War I regiment from Harlem who--against all odds--became one of the most feared and decorated units of the war.
- Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I EraUsing a diverse range of sources, Williams connects the history of African American soldiers and veterans to issues such as the obligations of citizenship, combat and labor, diaspora and internationalism, homecoming and racial violence, "New Negro" militancy, and African American historical memories of the war.
