Article, Primary Source Interviews

Was the WWI U-boat a death trap?

Delve into the world of WWI submarines with this online article by Matthew Seligmann for BBC's iWonder guides. iWonder is an archived series of online articles from BBC, intended to provide "thought...
BBC
Online Exhibition

War Fare: A Culinary Exploration of World War I

The National World War I Museum and Memorial addresses an often overlooked aspect of the war: food. In addition to reevaluating the effects of food on World War I and the home front, War Fare includes...
Article

War and Revolution in Russia 1914-1921

Russia signaled its withdrawal from World War I soon after the October Revolution of 1917, and the country turned in on itself with a bloody civil war between the Bolsheviks and the conservative White...
BBC History
Articles

Vande Mataram in the USA

From The United States World War One Centennial Commission, this website looks at the experience of Indian-Americans during the First World War by juxtaposing the German-Indian Conspiracy Trials that...
US WWI Centennial Commission
Article

Unmanned Drones Have Been Around Since World War I

While drones may seem like a new phenomenon, the military began experimenting with unmanned aerial vehicles during World War I. This article by Jimmy Stamp from 2013 published in Smithsonian Magazine...
Smithsonian Magazine
Classroom Materials

U.S. Participation in the Great War

This introduction from the Library of Congress spotlights a number of primary sources documenting U.S. Participation in the First World War.
Library of Congress
Classroom Materials

What caused the United States to enter World War I?

In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson declared that neutrality in the Great War was "no longer feasible" and that the U.S. had to intervene to make the world "safe for democracy." What changed between...
Stanford History Education Group
Online Exhibtion

Top Tips For Managing Your Carrier Pigeons

Delivering messages during World War I was not an easy task. Communication lines were often damaged by artillery fire, so soldiers often relied on carrier pigeons to deliver messages. These eleven...
Imperial War Museums