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World War I
The First World War was a pivotal event in twentieth century history: it precipitated the rise of Hitler and the advent of World War II, and also the Bolshevik Revolution and the Cold War. Why did World War I occur? Could it have been prevented? What were the negative aspects of the post-war settlement? Also examine what the war was like, both on the battlefront and the home front.
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WWI vets: last living links to a bygone era: with less than 400 of them left, these century-old warriors still have stories to tell, about the Great War. Janie Blankenship.
VFW Magazine Nov 2003 v91 i3 p14(2) (1045 words)
The Schrippenfest incident: Godfrey Hodgson tells of a little-known episode in which an unofficial American diplomat attempted to redraw the political map in the summer of 1914, bringing peace to Europe and development to the Third World. (Edward Mandell House (1858-1938))(Biography) Godfrey Hodgson. History Today July 2003 v53 i7 p47(7) (3945 words)
Intrigue of nations. (Book Review: THE ILLUSION OF VICTORY: Americans in World War I)(Book Review) Matthew Dallek. Washington Monthly July-August 2003 v35 i7-8 p57(2) (1040 words)
The Prelude. (Book Review)_(book review) Hillel Halkin. The New Republic June 2, 2003 p32 (2847 words)
First day on the Somme. The Atlantic Monthly May 2003 v291 i4 p106
Experience, identity, and memory: the legacy of World War I *. (Review Article). (Critical Essay) Belinda Davis. The Journal of Modern History March 2003 v75 i1 p111(21)
The mobilisation of the intellectuals 1914-1915 and the continuity of German historical consciousness (1). John A. Moses. The Australian Journal of Politics and History Sept 2002 v48 i3 p336(17)
The Schlieffen plan--fantasy or catastrophe? Terence Zuber argues that the German army's rigid plan for a quick victory in France in 1914 was a postwar fabrication. (Column) Terence Zuber. History Today Sept 2002 v52 i9 p40(7)
The realities of war: Mike Finn looks at the Liverpool press to find out what people back home were told about conditions on the Western Front. Mike Finn. History Today August 2002 v52 i8 p26(6)
`A barometer of national confidence': a British assessment of the role of insecurity in the formulation of German military policy before the first world war. Matthew S. Seligmann. The English Historical Review April 2002 v117 i471 p333(23)
Maple Leaf Yanks: in the 1960s many young Americans fled to Canada to avoid fighting and dying in Vietnam. But fifty years earlier, many of their grandfathers flocked north, eager to play a part in Europe's Great War. Matthew R. Laird. The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History April-May 2002 v82 i2 p32(6)
In harm's way; The sinking of the Lusitania. (British military history)(Brief Article) The Economist (US) April 20, 2002 pNA
German atrocities, 1914: fact, fantasy, or fabrication? John Horne looks at what lay behind allegations of brutality on both sides in the opening months of the Great War. John Horne. History Today April 2002 v52 i4 p47(7)
"Deads Lands" or "New Europe"? reconstructing Europe, reconfiguring Eastern Europe: "Westerners" and the aftermath of the World War. W. Brian Newsome. East European Quarterly Spring 2002 v36 i1 p39(24)
Excavating memories: archaeology and the Great War, 1914-2001. Nicholas J. Saunders. Antiquity March 2002 v76 i291 p101(8)
The Lansdowne "Peace Letter" of 1917 and the prospect of peace by negotiation with Germany (1). (Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne) Douglas Newton. The Australian Journal of Politics and History March 2002 v48 i1 p16(24)
Against all odds: Vira B. Whitehouse and Rosika Schwimmer in Switzerland, 1918. Tibor Glant. American Studies International Feb 2002 v40 i1 p34(18)
The song of 1916. Fraser Bell. Queen's Quarterly Winter 2001 v108 i4 p521(9)
ECHOES OF WORLD WAR I. (Brief Article) Alexandra Hergesell. Europe Oct 2001 p44
Women and the Great War. (World War I) CATE BRETT. Hindsight Sept 2001 v12 i1 p1
Total war! (effects of World War I on society) RICHARD STATON. Hindsight Sept 2001 v12 i1 p28
Laughter and tears in the great war: the need for laughter/the guilt of humour. Jean-Yves Le Naour. Journal of European Studies Sept 2001 p265(12)
Mirroring societies at war: pictorial humour in the British and French popular press during the First World War. Pierre Purseigle. Journal of European Studies Sept 2001 p289(41)
The Great War. (World War I) Michael Howard. The National Interest Summer 2001 p78
REMEMBERING GALLIPOLI: A VIEW FROM THE NEW CENTURY. MICHAEL EVANS. Quadrant May 2001 v45 i5 p20
Austen Chamberlain as Foreign Secretary. David Dutton. History Review March 2001 p9
RED SUMMERS 1917-19. (racial tension and riots towards end of World War I) Neil Evans. History Today Feb 2001 v51 i2 p28
'A land fit for heroes'? Postwar Britain 1918. HUGH JEBSON. Hindsight Jan 2001 v11 i2 p6
THE ABUSE OF HISTORY. (Pardon for Soldiers of the Great War Bill) Ian McGibbon. New Zealand International Review Jan 2001 v26 i1 p28
Searching for Gavrilo Princip. (Serbian nationalist) DAVID DEVOSS. Smithsonian August 2000 p42
A Benediction on the Past Woodrow Wilson's War Address. Robert W. Tucker. World Policy Journal Summer 2000 v17 i2 p77
Germany and France before the First World War: A Reassessment of Wilhelmine Foreign Policy. MARK HEWITSON. The English Historical Review June 2000 v115 i462 p570
Contingency, Catalysts, and International System Change. RICHARD NED LEBOW. Political Science Quarterly Winter 2000 v115 i4 p591
My Grandfather's War. (World War I) Ephraim Rubenstein. American Heritage Nov 2000 v51 i7 p48 Mag.Coll.: 105D0327.
"WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?": ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S "SOLDIER'S HOME" AND AMERICAN VETERANS OF WORLD WAR I (1). (Critical Essay) STEVEN TROUT. The Hemingway Review Fall 2000 v20 i1 p5
BETWEEN THE MOTHER OF THE WOUNDED AND THE VIRGIN OF JIU: Romanian Women and the Gender of Heroism during the Great War. Maria Bucur. Journal of Women's History Summer 2000 v12 i2 p30
A Benediction on the Past Woodrow Wilson's War Address. Robert W. Tucker. World Policy Journal Summer 2000 v17 i2 p77
Germany and France before the First World War: A Reassessment of Wilhelmine Foreign Policy. MARK HEWITSON. The English Historical Review June 2000 v115 i462 p570
In December 1914, German and British soldiers took a brief Christmas holiday from World War I. Leslie Stuart Carter. Military History Dec 1999 v16 i5 p18
The Great Flu Epidemic. (Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-1919) SEAN PRICE. New York Times Upfront Nov 15, 1999 v132 i6 p20
The Walking Wounded. (literary work of British novelist Pat Barker)(Critical Essay) MICHAEL THORPE. World and I Oct 1999 v14 i10 p258
Black American Radicalism and the First World War: The Secret Files of the Military Intelligence Division. WRAY R. JOHNSON. Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal Fall 1999 v26 i1 p27
LESSONS OF WORLD WAR I. Michael Lind. The New Leader Sept 20, 1999 v82 i11 p11 Mag.Coll.: 104A2960.
Why did the Germans ask for an armistice in 1918? CATE BRETT. Hindsight Sept 1999 v10 i1 p1
A lost generation? The impact of the First World War. Gerard DeGroot. Modern History Review Sept 1999 v11 i1 p18(4)
THE ZIMMERMANN TELEGRAM. (World War I) Katherine Bailey. British Heritage June 1999 v20 i4 p15(1)
German Australians in Rural Society 1914-1918. John McQuilton. Journal of Australian Studies June 1999 p178
Military geography: the influence of terrain in the outcome of the Gallipoli Campaign, 1915. Peter Doyle, Matthew R. Bennett. The Geographical Journal March 1999 v165 i1 p12(2)
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" The Federal Reserve System's founding fathers and allied finances in the First World War. Priscilla Roberts. Business History Review Winter 1998 v72 i4 p585(3) Bus.Coll.: 115N0758.
Sharing scarcity: bread rationing and the First World War in Berlin, 1914-1923. Keith Allen.
Journal of Social History Winter 1998 v32 i2 p371(2)
A TASTE OF ASHES. (the Great War) Jay Winter. History Today Nov 1998 p8
Under arms: the forgotten Black regiments of World War I. (includes related article) Craig J. Renner. World and I Nov 1998 v13 n11 p206(8)
The Great War. Graham Darby. History Review Sept 1998 n31 p19(7)
From moral to professional authority: secularism, social work, and middle-class women's self construction in World War I Britain. Angela Woollacott. Journal of Women's History Summer 1998 v10 n2 p85(27)
An inner circle of one: Woodrow Wilson and his advisers. Robert W. Tucker. The National Interest Spring 1998 n51 p3(24)
Britain and the origins of the First World War: Christopher Ray queries the accepted picture of a reluctant victim of forces beyond her control. (The Unpredictable Past). Christopher Ray. History Review March 1998 p45(5)
Battle colors: race, sex, and colonial soldiery in World War I. (Sexing Women's History) Philippa Levine. Journal of Women's History Wntr 1998 v9 n4 p104(27)
Not by bread alone: subsistence riots in Russia during World War I. Barbara Alpern Engel. The Journal of Modern History Dec 1997 v69 n4 p696(28)
Love in a time of war. (99-year-old Lina Becan)(100 Years of Living)(Interview) Jeanne Marie Laskas. Good Housekeeping Nov 1997 v225 n5 p28(2) Mag.Coll.: 91A1801.
Roger Nash Baldwin, the National Civil Liberties Bureau, and military intelligence during World War I. Robert C. Cottrell. The Historian Fall 1997 v60 n1 p87(20)
Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms.' (Ernest Hemingway) William Dow. The Explicator Summer 1997 v55 n4 p224(2)
The Origins of the First World War. Robert Pearce. History Review March 1997 n27 p12(5)
Edith Wharton at war: civilized space in troubled times. Annette Larson Benert. Twentieth Century Literature Fall 1996 v42 n3 p322(22)
How to pay for the war: state, society and taxation in Britain, 1917-24. M.J. Daunton. The English Historical Review Sept 1996 v111 n443 p883(27)
Masculinity, men's bodies and the Great War. (World War I) Joanna Bourke. History Today Feb 1996 v46 n2 p8(4) Mag.Coll.: 82F0811.
Red Emma. (Emma Goldman; World War I anarchist) Tod Olson. Scholastic Update Dec 8, 1995 v128 n7 p16(2) Mag.Coll.: 82A0435.
Conscription, sovereignty, and land: American Indian resistance during World War I. Erik M. Zissu. Pacific Historical Review Nov 1995 v64 n4 p537(30)
The economic effects of the Great War. Patrick O'Brien. History Today Dec 1994 v44 n12 p22(8) Mag.Coll.: 76L0733.
Fighting everything German in Texas, 1917-1919. Mark Sonntag. The Historian Summer 1994 v56 n4 p655(16)
British working women and the First World War. Susan Pyecroft. The Historian Summer 1994 v56 n4 p699(12)
Public finance and national security: the domestic origins of the First World War revisited. Niall Ferguson. Past & Present Feb 1994 n142 p141(28)
War and wages, 1914-18. (First World War) (Cover Story) Tony Corfield. History Today Nov 1993 v43 p21(7) Mag.Coll.: 71D0522.
Self-determination, again: the sad lessons of 1919 are eloquent about today's endlessly wretched situation in the Balkans. Bernard A. Weisberger. American Heritage Sept 1993 v44 n5 p18(2) Mag.Coll.: 71H1153.
Germany and the Arab question in the First World War. Donald M. McKale. Middle Eastern Studies April 1993 v29 n2 p236(18)
Unsafe haven: why minorities treaties fail. (international relations) Charles S. Maier. The New Republic Oct 12, 1992 v207 n16 p20(2) Mag.Coll.: 66D0241.
War against reason: what business had we 'over there'? (75th Anniversary Issue - World War I, Wilson, and business) (column) Henry Fairlie. The New Republic Nov 6, 1989 v201 n19 p58(5) Mag.Coll.: 52C1269.
Administrative politics and labor policy in the First World War: the U.S. employment service and the Seattle labor market experiment. William J. Breen. Business History Review Winter 1987 v61 n4 p582(24) Bus.Coll.: 39X0620.
Along the Western Front. (World War I cemeteries and shrines) Jack Beatty. The Atlantic Nov 1986 v258 p106(11) Mag.Coll.: 36M0856.
The emergence of democratic participation in global governance (Paris, 1919). (Globalization and Governance: The Prospects for Democracy) Steve Charnovitz.
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies Wntr 2003 v10 i1 p45(33) (13275 words)
The Treaty of Versailles 80 years on. Ruth Henig. Modern History Review April 2001 v12 i4 p2(4)
The failed peace in Europe, 1919-33. (includes chronology)(Versailles System) Andrew J. Crozier. Modern History Review Sept 1999 v11 i1 p22(4)
The Versailles legacy. (the interests of all Europe, 1919) Derek Aldcroft. History Review Dec 1997 n29 p8(6)
The Roosevelt administration and the United Nations: re-creation or rejection of the League experience? (Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations, part 2) George Schild. World Affairs Summer 1995 v158 n1 p26(9)
Trick or treat? The Anglo-French Alliance, 1919. Antony Lentin. History Today Dec 1992 v42 p28(5) Mag.Coll.: 67J0551.
Bad Statesman, Good Prophet. (President Woodrow Wilson) Michael Mandelbaum. The National Interest Summer 2001 p31 |
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