Letters, Correspondences and Speeches
The following are resources available in Van Pelt Library. Clicking on the links will take you to the item's catalog record in Franklin.
- WWI Correspondences-- subject search in Franklin
- WWI Speeches-- subject search in Franklin
- Speech of His Excellency Signor Antonio Salandra in the Capitol of Rome Speech given on June 2, 1915 in response to the emperor of Austria and the German chancellor.
- Diplomatic correspondence between the United States and Germany August 1, 1914 through April 6, 1917.
- America's Debt to England-Failure to Teach the Foundations of Liberty As read before the American Historical Association in Cincinnati, Ohio on December 28, 1916.
- Amtliche Kriegs-depeschen nach Berichten des Wolff'schen Telegr.-Bureaus. Official war dispatches to the Wolff Telegraph Agency, the largest news agency in Germany.
- Trench Journals in the First World War Soldiers' Writings.
Prisoner of War Data from the ICRC
WWI Personal Narratives
A subject search in Franklin: World War 1914-1918 -- Personal Narratives brings up 489 records. Limit
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Personal Narratives, Peripheral Theatres: Essays on the Great War (1914-18) by Call Number: Van Pelt Library. D509 .P47 2018ISBN: 9783319668505Publication Date: 2018An analysis of the Great War through personal narratives and artifacts -
Landscapes and Voices of the Great War by Call Number: Van Pelt Library. D524.6 .L36 201ISBN: 9781138079878Publication Date: 2017 -
Commitment and Sacrifice: Personal Diaries from the Great War by Call Number: Van Pelt Library. D640.A2 C65 2015ISBN: 9780199336074Publication Date: 2015Five previously unpublished diaries of five participants in the First World War and a republication of a sixth that address the war on the Western front and the Mediterranean, as well as behind the lines on the home front: a British sapper who dug tunnels beneath the trenches of the Western Front; a French infantry officer; an American volunteer ambulance driver ; a German businessman caught in England upon the war's outbreak and interned there for the duration; a New Zealand artilleryman; and a German machine gunner, captured and held as a prisoner of war. -
Hidden Stories of the First World War by Call Number: Van Pelt Library. D640.A2 S86 2014ISBN: 9780712357388Publication Date: 2014This work collects 32 stories that tell the experiences of ordinary people during the war. Illustrated with photos, memorabilia, and maps.
Papers and Memoirs
Portrait of Woodrow Wilson, c.1912
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [reproduction number LC-USZ62-13028 DLC]
- The Papers of Woodrow Wilson Messages, Papers, Speeches, etc. of President Wilson in 69 volumes.. Also available in 2 volumes:Online or Print
- War Memoirs of David Lloyd George 6 volumes.
WWI Diaries
A keyword search in Franklin: world war 1914-1918 diaries brings up 213 and entries
