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Centenary of the First World War, 1914-1918

The Australian War Memorial is commemorating the centenary of the First World War by engaging in a sophisticated and nuanced redevelopment of its First World War galleries and related exhibits. Users of this site will get a great peek into these new galleries, along with access to the Memorial's YouTube video channels and blogs. Visitors should click on over to the ANZAC Voices to learn about the...

https://www.awm.gov.au/about/our-work/projects/centenary-pro...
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Europeana 1914-1918

Europeana 1914-1918, a project based at the University of Oxford, hosts a remarkable collection of primary documents relating to World War I, collected by individuals, libraries, and film archives across Europe. On this website, visitors may browse through hundreds of Letters, Diaries, Photographs, World War I Films, Official Documents, and Postcards. Each resource type is further sorted by...

https://www.europeana.eu/en/collections/topic/83-world-war-i
Lest We Forget

Dr. Stuart Lee, Project Leader for Lest We Forget, had a realization: "few people in Britain were unaffected by the [First World] War." This realization inspired the resource, on a mission to preserve and memorialize this history. From photographs to letters to memorabilia, the site features mementos of the War in a way that feels both informative and symbolic. While the online Archive is no...

https://lwf.web.ox.ac.uk/home
Polish Declarations Collection

The relationship between Poland and the United States has existed for several centuries, as early as the Revolutionary War some of the key figures were great Polish military heroes, such as Casimir Pulaski and Tadeusz Kosciuszko. Continuing and strengthening the relationship between these two countries over the years are the many Poles who have immigrated to the United States. Recently, the...

https://www.loc.gov/collections/polish-declarations/about-th...
The Great War

As many historians know, the Great War was meant to be the "war to end all wars", but this was regrettably not the case. During this period, many artists and members of the literati offered their impassioned feelings about the conflict and its aftermath in the form of poetry. Created by the scholar Harry Rusche, this site was designed as a resource for courses in World War I poetry. The site...

https://greatwar.ecds.emory.edu
The World War I Document Archive

The "Great War" is sometimes overshadowed by the legacy of World War II, but historians and other interested parties never forget the importance of this important global war that consumed the world in the second decade of the 20th century. The people at the Brigham Young University Libraries haven't forgotten either, and as such, they have created this archive of primary documents for interested...

https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page