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Reference Sources (Background)
Dictionary of the First World War (1996)
Ref D 510 .P66 1996
Includes both major terms, as Eastern Front, and individual actions, leaders, weapons and events.
European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1996)
Ref D 510 .E97 1996
Concentrates on non-US aspects of the war, companion to US in the First World War.
United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1995)
Ref D 510 .U65 1995
Longer articles with bibliographies, covers domestic issues as well as military topics.
World War I (1997)
Ref D 521 .H428 1997
Divided into an overview of the war, biographies, and primary documents.
Locating Books
The Library of Congress Classification for general and Old World history is D; for North American history use E and F. In particular, World War I is D 501-680.
MaconCat
The library's online catalog, providing access to books, journals, music, and movies in the library.
WorldCat
A catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
Books and articles not owned by our library can be obtained from other libraries through Interlibrary Loan. Allow sufficient time for processing. Average turnaround time is 3-5 days for articles and 3-14 days for books, excluding holidays and weekends. Submit ILL requests well in advance of deadlines.
Locating Articles (Databases & Indexes)
Academic Search Complete
Arts and Humanities Search(1980 to present, citation only)
Database with citations to articles, no full-text.
Dictionary of National Biography
Biographies of people associated with the British Isles, from the earliest times to 2000.
Print volumes in Ref DA 28 .O95 2004
Project Muse (full text; dates vary, most late-1990s to present)
This collection of fully scanned journal issues allows searching of individual articles from 250 scholarly journals.
JSTOR (full text; dates vary by journal)
An archive of back issues of over 400 journals in many disciplines.
Websites
Legend, Memory and the Great War in the Air (National Air and Space Museum)
World War I aviation, with pictures
Posters of the Great War: An Exhibition (University of South Carolina Libraries)
Great collection of posters
Stars and Stripes (Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress)
"From February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919, by order of General John J. Pershing, the United States Army published a newspaper for its forces in France, The Stars and Stripes. This online collection includes the complete seventy-one-week run of the newspaper's World War I edition."
World War I (Department of History, U.S. Military Academy West Point)
Campaign atlases- great maps
World War I Document Archive
assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L).
Evaluating Sources
Citing Sources
Citing Sources from the Web (MLA)