American History Since 1877

Chapter 22
War and the American State, 1914-1920

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These resources have been selected by librarians to supplement HSTY202 classes (American History from 1877) at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

• Gale Virtual Reference Collection
• Books and eBooks in TC3 Collection
• Subject Headings
• Multimedia
• Locating Journal Articles in Databases
• Web Resources

Gale Virtual Reference Collection

TC3 students and staff have access to the Gale Virtual Reference Library which has over 250 academic reference encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. This is a good place to start your research because it provides useful background information.

Books and eBooks in the TC3 Collection

• A Dangerous Woman: the Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman [HX843.7.G65 R83 2007]
• Ellis Island Interviews: In Their Own Words [JV6455 .C53 1997]
• From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A history of the fight for free speech in America [KF4772 .F56 2007]
• Intimate Papers of Colonel House Arranged as a Narrative [E766 .H85 v.1 - v.4]
• Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti [HX843 .S33 1997]
• Lusitania: an Epic Tragedy [D592.L8 P74 2002]
• My Experiences in the World War by General John J. Pershing (1860-1948) [D570 .P44 1931] - Primary Source.
• No Magic Bullet: a Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since 1880 [RC201.47 .B73 1985]
• Over Here: the First World War and American Society by David M. Kennedy. Available online via ACLS Humanities E-Book.
• The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War edited by Hew Strachan [D521 .O94 2000].
• Peace Negotiations, a Personal Narrative, by Robert Lansing [D644 .L3] "Notes: 'The President's original draft of the covenant of the league of nations, laid before the American commission on Jan 10, 1919': p. [281]-294"
• Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War [D521 .O94 2000]
• Race Riot; Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 [by] William M. Tuttle, Jr. [F548.9.N3 T8]
• Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal [D643.A7 B28]

Note: To find books in the TC3 Library, go to the main Library page and search the TC3 Catalog. Use the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat to find books in other libraries which you can request through the TC3 Library's Interlibrary Loan service.

Subject Headings

Try these suggested subject headings to find books on War and the American State, 1914-1920 in the TC3 Library Catalog and/or WorldCat.

• Anarchists - United States
• The League of Nations
• Treaty of Versailles, 1919
• United States, Emigration and immigration, History
• Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
• World War, 1914-1918

Multimedia

• The Great War--1918 [videorecording - VHS cassette] [Media D545.A63 G7 1990] Series: The American Experience. "Summary: A history of United States soldiers in the closing battle of World War I told through letters and diaries including those of General John J. (Blackjack) Pershing, Sergeant Alvin York, and Sergeant Harry S. Truman. Features interviews with French and American veterans and nurses. Uses contemporary film footage."

Locating Journal Articles in Databases

History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals by title & Subject.

Web Resources

• American Leaders Speak Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
• Birth of a Nation - Excerpts from D. W. Griffith's silent film.
• The Deadly Virus: The Influenza Epidemic of 1918< - Primary Sources
• Ellis Island
• Everett Massacre Collection - "This collection, documenting labor's perspective of the 1916 Everett Massacre and its aftermath, currently holds 39 articles from the Seattle Union Record as well as 49 other items including pamphlets, fliers, hand- and typewritten works, postcards and a photograph."
• First World War: The War to End All Wars - Primary source materials: photographs, speeches and songs, memoirs, dispatches, treaties, etc.
• The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, 1914-1918 - PBS
• Imperial War Museum - London. You can search the sound collection for interviews with veterans recounting their war experiences. (Search for Western Front, 1914-1918; Military Operations, 1914-1919; Tank Warfare, 1916-1918, Interviews; Great War.)
• HathiTrust Digital Library - A rich collection of digitized texts including many primary sources relevent to American History
• A Letter from Camp Devens, Massachusetts - Primary source document on the topic of the 1919 flu epidemic - letter from Surgical Ward No. 16 on September 29, 1918.
• Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1913-1919 - Library of Congress. Primary source.
• Sacco and Vanzetti Website contains links to letters from Sacco and Vanzetti, as well as video clips.
• Seattle General Strike Project - Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington
• South Texas Border, 1900-1920 - Collection of photographs by Robert Runyon of the South Texas Border Area. Search for calvary, soldier, soldiers, Army, military life etc.
• Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 - Collection offers the entire run of the official weekly newspaper of the U.S. Army fighting forces during WWI. Primary Source.
• Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti - Part of the Famous American Trials Project by Douglas O. Linder, University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Law.
• Visual Culture and Health Posters: Infectious Disease - Links to posters of the early 20th century, including those that target the threat of venereal disease and tuberculosis from 1916-1919, during World War I and World War II.
• World War I Document Archive - Archive of primary documents from World War I assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L).

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