Student Project Companion Guide: World War I – 1918

World War I: 1918

The Project

Students working with Clarkson History Professor Dr. Stephen Casper engaged in a course project on Clarkson community members during World War I in 1917. This is a companion guide to that project which highlights library resources on this time period. 

In our Archives

If you are interested in what was happening at Clarkson during this time period, visit our archives. 

Research Materials

Books
Articles
Government Documents
Web Resources
Books

With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory & Defeat in 1918
by David Stevenson

Hundred Days: The Campaign that Ended World War I
by Nick Lloyd

What Really Happened in Paris: The Story of the Peace Conference, 1918-1919
by Edward Mandell House & Charles Seymour

For more books on World War I, see our catalog. 
For more books on the armistice of World War I, see our catalog.

Articles

These are just some of the many articles on World War I available through our library. For more, search our homepage or see the list of history databases we subscribe to below.

• Amiens to the Armistice: The BEF in the Hundred Days’ Campaign, 8 August-11 November 1918
• The Cost of the War and How It Was Met
• Death from 1918 pandemic influenza during the First World War: a perspective from personal and anecdotal evidence
• Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918; World War I and Its Violent Climax

History Databases

• Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)
  Leading arts and humanities journals with selected, relevant items from major science and social science journals. Art, music, literature, history. Citations only with links to full text where available. 1975 – present
• Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
  Citations to journal articles and book reviews covering a wide range of interdisciplinary fields from a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals. 1907 – 1984.
• JSTOR
  Interdisciplinary archive of leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes images, letters, and other primary sources; begins with volume 1 of subscribed titles up to 3-5 years ago of publication. Current content not available. Clarkson journal collections include Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, Business III, & Life Sciences.
  Full text access may not be available for all articles found; limited to titles that Clarkson subscribes to.
• Military Collection
  Full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
• Military Intelligence Database
  Scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. Content in key subject areas including governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.
• U.S. History Collection
  Scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. Balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work being established in the field.
• War & Terrorism Collection
  Academic journals and magazines of interest to analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science. Balanced coverage of both historic and contemporary topics in the fields of war and terrorism.
• World History Collection
  Scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. Balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.

Government Documents

Print

Women Marines in World War I
Call Number: D 214.13:W 84

A Brief History of the 14th Marines
Call Number: D214.13:M 34/9

United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919 (17 volumes)
Call Number: D114.8:v.1

Online

For web-based government documents, see:

• Clarkson University Libraries Government Documents Guide
• GovInfo – United States Army in the World War

Web Resources

Local History

• New York State Archives
• NYS Historic Newspapers
  The NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York’s unique history. To search the entire collection, use the Search Tab. Or, click on a county to search or browse geographically.
• New York Heritage Digital Collections
  New York Heritage is a portal for learning more about the people, places and events that contributed to the making of New York State.

US History

• American Memory
  American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
• Historical Events in 1918
  A list of major historical events in 1918
• JSTOR Open
  Explore academic content on JSTOR that is open to everyone, everywhere. Search thousands of free journal articles and open access book chapters.
• Patriotic Labor: America During World War I
  From the Digital Public Library of America
• Presidential Speeches – The Miller Center
  From the site: “The Miller Center is a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history and strives to apply the lessons of history and civil discourse to the nation’s most pressing contemporary governance challenges.”

World History

• Europeana 1914-1918
  Explore stories and histories of World War I from across Europe.
• The First World War – Places of Transit
  From Europeana
• Through the Soldier’s Lens
  From the Public Domain Review: “To mark the 100 years since Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) fought the Gallipoli campaign of WW1, Alison Wishart, Senior Curator of Photographs at Australian War Memorial, explores the remarkable photographic record left by the soldiers. Made possible by the birth of Kodak’s portable camera, the photographs give a rare and intimate portrait of the soldier’s day-to-day life away from the heat of battle.”
• Untold Stories of the First World War
  Photos, letters and other memorabilia from Europeana
• War Art of Paul Nash
  Paul Nash, an English landscape artist, captured the destroyed landscapes of World War I and World War II. From the Public Domain Review.
• We Know This War by Heart – Portugal & the Great War
  From Europeana
• World Digital Library 1900-1949
  The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.