World War I

At school or in a public library, begin by using the Computer Catalog (Lemon Bay's OPAC)
to do a Subject Search using the following

Search Terms -
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918-Economic aspects
World War, 1914-1918 - League of Nations
World War, 1914-1918 - Territorial Questions
World War, 1914-1918 - United States
World War One
World War I

Call Numbers for Books on this subject are usually
940.3 OR 940.4 OR 973.91
See Also: Biographies

General Encyclopedias are a good starting place to get basic, background information about a subject.
Use the Index (usually the last volume) to locate your subject.

The following sets of encyclopedias are available in our media center:
  • The World Book Encyclopedia
  • Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Compton's Encyclopedia

    • Print Resources - Circulating Books:
    The First World War: an eyewitness history. 940.3 KIR
    First World War. 940.3 FIR
    America at War: World War I - 940.3 BOS
    An Illustrated History of the First World War - 940.3 KEE
    The American Heritage History of World War I - 940.3 MAR
    World War I: Life in the trenches. 940.4 CUR
    The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century. 940.3 WIN
    The Yanks are Coming: the United States in the First World War. 940.3 MAR

     Print Resources - Reference Books:
    Twentieth Century America: Reform, War and Peace
    1901-1929; Vol. 1 – REF 973
    America in the 20th Century – REF 973.9 AME
    Lands and People - REF 910.22 LAN
    The 20th Century: An Illustrated History of Our Lives and Times - REF 909.82 TWE
    The Grolier Library of World War I – REF 940.3 GRO

    Online Databases -
    If you plan on accessing these sites from home,
    be sure to ask the media specialists for the password-you'll need it!
    Grolier Multimedia Online
    eLibrary

    Websites -

    Trenches on the Web - Reference Library - http://www.worldwar1.com/reflib.htm

    World War I Document Archive - http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/index.html

    The Great War Society - http://www.worldwar1.com/tgws/

    The First World War.Com: the War to End All Wars - http://www.firstworldwar.com/

    The Great War - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/10/98/world_war_i/197437.stm

    The Great War from PBS - http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/

    The Great War and Popular Culture - http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/wwivm/wwivmtg.htm

    World War I Cartoons - http://rutlandhs.k12.vt.us/jpeterso/uboatcar.htm

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