Twentieth Century Resources

1900-09	1910-19	1920-29	1930-39	1940-49
1950-59	1960-69	1970-79	1980-89	1990-99

 

Decade 1910 to 1919

The Great War (WWI 1914-1918) (Return to the Top)

• Chateau de Versailles (official web site of the Versailles palace shows us what absolutism and excess is all about)
• Document Archive for WWI (links to most WW I documents, treaty and personal memoir sites)
• The Great War (special BBC web site)
• The Great War: 1914-1918 (many great links, recommended by the HistoryChannel.com)
• The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (PBS sponsored site)
• The Great War: Interview with Woodrow Wilson (Comments by the scholar Robert Wohl, University of California on President Woodrow Wilson and his attitudes toward the peace settlements)
• Poets of the Great War
• Trenches on the Web (ever growing and well maintained virtual reference library on World War I with an incredible set of resources including maps, biographies, timelines and interpretations of events and policies related to World War I)
• Versailles Treaty June 28, 1919 (a copy of the Treaty of Versailles, broken into user friendly sections)
• Versailles Treaty (complete treaty with all 440 Articles)
• The War Times Journal: The Eastern Front
• The War to End All Wars (BBC sponsored site)

Culture and Daily Life (Return to the Top)

• Adventures as a Spy (The founder of the Boy Scouts was a former spy, and published a book about it during WWI.)
• Art of the First World War (Exhibition of 110 paintings brought together by the major history museums of Europe.)
• The Black Sox World Series Scandal
• Chicago Race Riots: 1919
• Historic American Sheet Music: 1850 -1920 (Library of Congress collection
• Jazz Age in Chicago
• The Ohio Dry Campaign of 1918
• The Palmer Raids (The "Red Scare" was used in this period to limit freedom of speech by those who disagreed with U.S. government policy. The "Palmer Raids" of 1918-1921 were led by the the U.S. Attorney General against those believed to by communists or socialists.)
• Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902-1933 (This collection at the Library of Congress offers approximately 54,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, one of Chicago's leading newspapers.)
• Recordings from World War I and the Election of 1920 (59 sound recordings of speeches by American leaders at the turn of the century)
• Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection, 1850-1920 (12,000 stereoscopic photographs of Eastern states)
• The South Texas Border: 1900-1920
• Touring Turn-of-the-Century America (Collection includes over 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly of the eastern United States. The group also includes views of California, Wyoming and the Canadian Rockies.)

Russian Revolution (Return to the Top)

• Contenders to Power in Russia: 1917