{"id":3812,"date":"2018-11-16T15:34:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T15:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3812"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:05","slug":"us-government-release-full-text-first-world-war-documents-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2018\/11\/16\/us-government-release-full-text-first-world-war-documents-online\/","title":{"rendered":"US Government release full text First World War documents online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now available:\u00a0<em><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/app\/search\/%7B%22query%22%3A%22mods%3Aidentifier%3A(%40%5C%22ILS%20system%20id%5C%22%3A%5C%22001081833%5C%22)%20%22%2C%22offset%22%3A0%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0Published in 1948, this 17 volume set contains key documents, maps, and records for the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) from the start of the American involvement in World War I through the to the armistice.\u00a0 See volume 10 for the peace agreements.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/GPO-CRECB-1917-pt1-v55\/pdf\/GPO-CRECB-1917-pt1-v55.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Congressional record for 1917<\/a>\u00a0has the debates on how the US entered the war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The UK National Archives has released an eBook\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/education\/resources\/armistice-and-legacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Armistice and legacy<\/a>.\u00a0 This was\u00a0an\u00a0arts project &#8211; 9\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>students worked with artist Carol Adlam,\u00a0Senior Lecturer in Illustration at Nottingham Trent University to interpret original sources using graphic art techniques.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/world-war-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British Library\u2019s First World War website<\/a>\u00a0also provides free access to over 500 items from the collections including maps, letters and manuscripts.\u00a0 There is also a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/world-war-one\/themes\/representation-and-memory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">theme of memory which has articles from academic staff<\/a>\u00a0and a section of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/world-war-one\/teaching-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lesson curriculum materials\u00a0<\/a>for teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now available:\u00a0The United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919\u00a0\u00a0Published in 1948, this 17 volume set contains key documents, maps, and records for the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) from the start of the American involvement in World War I through the to the armistice.\u00a0 See volume 10 for the peace agreements. Congressional record for 1917\u00a0has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,303],"tags":[521,200,93,95],"class_list":["post-3812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-politics","category-us-politics","tag-first-world-war","tag-primary-sources","tag-united-kingdom","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3813,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions\/3813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}