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HIST 3000 - World War I - The Great War - Machen

Primary and secondary sources for research on the Great War (World War I).

Primary Sources - Great Britain

British Primary Sources

The following are British publications and archives of publications from 1914 to 1918

Economist
Google Books Advanced
HathiTrust (Books and Magazines)
Choose the Advanced Search setting for more options and focus.
Illustrated London News
Sunday Times
Times (London Times)

Primary Sources - United States

U.S. Primary Sources

The following are American publications and archives of publications from 1914 to 1918

Google Books Advanced
HathiTrust (Books, Magazines, and U.S. Government Documents)
Choose the Advanced Search setting for more options and focus.
Newspaper Archive (small town and city newspapers from across the U.S.)
New York Times
OneSearch (Rod Library Catalog)
After conducting your search limit your results to years such as 1914 to 1920 to uncover primary books and government documents.

Reader's Guide Retrospective (Also available in print at IndexAbstract AI3 .R48 - 1st floor of library)
Guide to articles published in American magazines. Use this in combination with either HathiTrust or the Rod Library "Journal Search" and print magazines located in the library basement - primarily at call number AP2.

To find magazine article in print type the magazine name in the Rod Library "Journal Search" and get a "UNI Periodicals" call number for the 1st floor.

To find a digital copy of a magazine article, go to HathiTrust, click on Advanced full-text Search, type the name of the magazine in the "Title" search blank and then click on "Advanced Search", click on the Catalog Record of the magazine you're interested in, if the dates covered aren't present consider clicking on one of the "Similar Items" on the right-hand side of the results page.

A print version of Reader's Guide is available on the 1st floor at Index/Abstract AI 3 .R48 (Provides more details and subcategories than the online version).