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BOOKS
Ranging from the Oval Office to corporate boardroom, from the farmyard to the battlefield, America in the Great War details a nation reshaped by the demands of total war.
For Home and Country examines the propaganda that targeted noncombatants on the home front in the United States and Europe during World War I.
An alternate history based fiction novel published in 1998 by the master of historical alternate fiction Harry Turtledove
The Great War of 1914-1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history.
Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and provocative interpretation of American political history.
IMAGES
A magazine advertisement in Printer's Ink, encouraging the purchase of war bonds and explaining their worth towards the war effort.
Propaganda poster from 1917, encouraging American citizens to participate in the war effort and give to the Red Cross fund.
A political cartoon from the Washington Evening Star, emphasizing the importance of farmers and citizen gardeners expanding food production during the war.
United States Employment Office announcement poster, encouraging women to work as stenographers in Washington D.C.
Newspaper headline from Columbia, Missouri on April, 6, 1917, the day that the United States formally declared war against Germany and entered the conflict in Europe.
AUDIO & VIDEO
Examine the relationship of soldiers and the home front as never before through letters, home movies, and emotional personal accounts.
Classical and popular selections from the time of World War I from NPR's "Performance Today."
The home-front experience as told through the music of the time.
Tells the many forgotten stories of the men and women who served in the Great War from the summer of 1914 to November 1918.
A promotional video for war savings stamps, reputed here to help confine Germany's Kaiser to a circus cage.