You'll recognize some of these web sites from the syllabus; others are recommended sites on topics related to course materials. Use these addresses to explore historical documents, oral histories, and articles available on the Internet. This list emphasizes primary documents, including images, audio and video recordings as well as texts, and is organized by time periods--World War I, 1920s, 1930s, World War II--and by topics.
Remember that these sites, like the various documents, articles, collections, photographs, and oral histories gathered at the sites, have their own biases and points of view. As you evaluate the materials, ask yourself who or what organization put together these sites, and for what purposes. Explore the links from these sites to learn more, not only about early-twentieth-century events, people, and debates but also about late-twentieth-century issues and debates. Compare the perspectives offered here with those presented in other course materials.
Although these web sites were all accessible at the start of the semester, keep in mind that due to the often ephemeral nature of the Internet, some of these sites may have changed addresses or disappeared. Make a note of any changes you find, along with any new and interesting sites you'd recommend, and pass on that information to me so I can alert the rest of your classmates.
"Voices of World War I"
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfexww1.html
Gas and Flame in World War I: The New Weapons of Terror
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/533d-Langer.html
"This is How it Was:" An American Nurse in France during World War I
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/533b-LaMotte.html
Hot Chocolate: A World War 'Canteen Girl'
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/533i-Morse.html
"No Negroes Allowed:" Segregation at the Front in World War I
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/533j-Hunton.html
"His Car is His Pride:" Ode to a World War I Ambulance
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/533a-Imbrie.html
"Bombed Last Night:" Singing at the Front in World War I
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/533g-Songs.html
World War I History Commission Questionaires
http://eagle.vsla.edu/wwi/
"The U.S. Sedition Act"
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1918/usspy.html
The Espionage Act of May 16, 1918
http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/texts/esp1918.htm
Eugene Debs, The Canton, Ohio, Speech, June 16, 1918
http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/debs_a78.htm
"I Glanced Up-The Statue of Liberty!" Emma Goldman Describes Her Deportation
in the Era of the Red Scare
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/571b-Goldman.html
Jeannette Rankin, "Why I Voted Against War"
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:2020/dynaweb/teiproj/oh/suffragists/rankin/@ebt-link;nn=1;pt=779?target=%25N%14_7693_START_RESTART_N%25
"Don't Have to Mister Every Little White Boy..." Black Migrants Write
Home
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/548c-Letters.html
"Sir I Will Thank you with all my Heart: Seven Letters from the Great
Migration
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/541b-Letters.html
"Times is Getting Harder:" Blues of the Great Migration
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/541d-times.html
"We Tho[ugh]t State Street Would Be Heaven Itself:" Black Migrants Speak
Out
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/548a-Johnson.html
"Nobody Would Eat Kraut:" Lola Gamble Clyde on Anti-German Sentiment
in Idaho during World War I
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/553f-clyde.html
"Get the Rope!" Anti-German Violence in World War I-era Wisconsin
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/553e-Deml.html
"We Had to Be So Careful:" A German Farmer's Recollections of Anti-German
Sentiment in World War I
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/553g-brocke.html
Hard Chewing: Supporting World War I at the Kitchen Table
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/532f-george.html
"There Wasn't a Mine Runnin' a Lump O' Coal:" A Kentucky Coal Miner
Remembers the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/563d-bartley.html
"He'll Come Home in a Box:" The Spanish Influenza of 1918 Comes to Montana
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/563c-flumt.html
"Please Let me Put Him in a Macaroni Box:" The Spanish Influenza of
1918 in Philadelphia
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/563b-flupa.html
Bisbee Deportation
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/iww/
"All the Colored Women Like This Work:" Black Workers during World War
I
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/535c-Ross.html
"Such Cases of Outrageous Unspeakable Abuse..." A Puerto Rican Migrant
Protests Conditions during World War I
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/725b-marchan.html
1919 Steel Strike
"We Did Not Have Enough Money:" George Miller's Testimony about the
1919 Steel Strike
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/562f-Miller.html
"We Do Not Understand the Foreigners:" John J. Martin Testifies on the
1919 Steel Strike
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/562a-Machinist.html
"We Ought to Have the Right to Belong to the Union:" Frank Smith Speaks
on the 1919 Steel Strike
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/562g-Smith.html
"Eight Hours a Day and Better Conditions:" Andrew Pido Explains his
Support for the 1919 Steel Strike
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/562h-Pido.html
"I Witnessed the Steel Strike:" Joe Rudiak Remembers the 1919 Strike
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/562j-rudiak.html
"It is Entirely the Bolshevik Spirit:" Mill Owner W.M. Mink Explains
the 1919 Steel Strike
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/562d-Mink.html
"They are Mostly all Foreigners on Strike:" Joseph Fish Speaks on the
1919 Steel Strike
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/562c-Fish.html
"The Men Seemed to Be Pretty Well Satisfied:" John Anderson on the 1919
Steel Strike
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/562b-Anderson.html
Votes for Women--Huntington Library Exhibit and Links
http://www.huntington.org/vfw/index.html
[Ernestine Hara Kettler, "The Suffrage Struggle: Direct Action in Washington,
D.C."
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:2020/dynaweb/teiproj/oh/suffragists/suffragists/@Generic_BookView
address
changed]
Auto Tours for Women's Suffrage: An Oral History
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/544g-seiler.html
Jailed for Freedom: A Women's Suffragist Remembers Prison
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/544h-kettler.html
Starving for Women's Suffrage: "I Am Not Strong after these Weeks"
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/544i-Winslow.html
Woodrow Wilson 2d Inaugural Address, March 5, 1917
http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/inaugural/pres45.html
W.Wilson, “Americanism and the Foreign Born,” May 10, 1915
http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/wils_b02.htm
W.Wilson, Fourteen Points, January 8, 1918
http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/wils_a23.htm
Moorfield Story, “Address to the 20th-Annual Meeting of the Anti-Imperialist
League” (1919)
http://www.boondocksnet.com/ailtexts/storey190217.html
Topics
Elections, Garveyism,
Ku
Klux Klan, Labor, Leopold
& Loeb Case, Movies and Music, New
Woman, Prohibition, Racial
Tension, Sacco and Vanzetti
Voices of the Presidential Election of 1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfexpe.html
Marcus Garvey and United Negro Improvement Association Papers Project
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/mgpp/
"Speak, Garvey, Speak!" A Follower Recalls a Garvey Rally
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/653b-moore.html
"Ideals of the Ku Klux Klan"
http://www.lib.msu.edu/digital/radicalism/hs2330.k63k84/002.htm
"Ideals of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan"
http://www.lib.msu.edu/spc/digital/radicalism/hs2330.k63w65.htm
Hiram Wesley Evans, "The Klan's Fight for Americanism"
http://www.lib.msu.edu/digital/radicalism/hs2330.k63e8.htm
Documents on the Klan from the 1920s
http://www.lib.msu.edu/digital/radicalism/subj_struct.html#Klan
"Like One Big Family:" A Former Textile Worker Describes the Closeness
of the Southern Mill Village in the 1920s
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/642a-hargett.html
"Sadie's Servant Room Blues:" 1920s Domestic Work in Song
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/522f-sadie.html
Illinois v. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, 1924
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/leoploeb/leopold.htm
Clarence Darrow, "Mercy for Leopold & Loeb"
http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/darr_b17.htm
Culture in the Jazz Age
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~nick/e309k/jazzage.html
Frustration versus Fantasy: How the Movies Made Some People Restless
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/632d-Highschool.html
The Jazz Age Page
http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/Jazzhome.htm
"I Limited My Own Family:" Memoir of a 1920s Birth Control Activist
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/663e-thygeson.html
Margaret Sanger, What Every Girl Should Know
http://www.lib.msu.edu/digital/radicalism/hq57.s281922/004.htm
Kissing Rudy Valentino: A High School Student Describes Movie Going
in the 1920s
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/632a-Valentino.html
Bruce Bliven, "Flapper Jane," New Republic, September 9, 1925
http://www.pandorasbox.com/jane.html
Ellen Welles Page, "A Flapper's Appeal to Parents," Outlook,
December 6, 1922
http://www.pandorasbox.com/appeal.html
Temperance and Prohibition
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/prohibition
Richmond P. Hobson, Alabama Representative, December
22, 1914 speech;
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/prohibition/hobson.htm
Percy Andreae, “A Glimpse behind the Mask of Prohibition” (Chicago 1915); http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/prohibition/andreae.htm
“Those Who Laugh at the Drunken Man,” Evening Journal (NY) 1918; http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/nyej_a67.htm
Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race
http://www.melvig.org/pgr-toc.html
Defending Greenwood: A Survivor Recalls the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/654a-williams.html
Scottsboro Boys, 1931-37
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm
"Four Free, Five in Prison, on the Same Evidence: What the Nation's
Press Says About the Scottsboro Case" (Scottsboro Defense Committee, 1937)
http://www.lib.msu.edu/digital/radicalism/kf224.s34f61937.htm
Paul Peters, "Eight Who Lie in the Death House"
http://www.lib.msu.edu/digital/radicalism/kf224.s34p41933.htm
Felix Frankfurter, "The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti," Atlantic Monthly
March 1927
http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/flashbks/oj/frankff.htm
Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, "Sacco and Vanzetti," The Road
to Freedom (August 1929)
http://sunsite.Berkeley.edu/Goldman/Writings/Essays/sacco.html
The Last Days Remembered: A Compatriot Recalls the Deaths of Sacco and
Vanzetti
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/572b-felicani.html
Fred Ellis, The Case of Sacco & Vanzetti in Cartoons for the Daily
Worker
http://www.lib.msu.edu/digital/radicalism/nc1429.e4c31927.htm
CourtTV site on Sacco & Vanzetti trial
http://staging.courttv.com/greatesttrials/sacco.vanzetti/trial.html
Topics
FDR, Depression Experiences,
Father
Coughlin, Indian Reorganization
Act, Labor, 1934 General
Strike, United Mine Workers, Women
& Union Activity, Unemployed Councils,
WPA
& other New Deal Agencies,
World's Fairs
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "First Inaugural Address"
http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/inaugural/pres49.html
"Voices from the Dust Bowl"
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
Losing the Business: The Donners Recall the Depression
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/721g-donner.html
Deaf and Unemployed in Dubuque: The DiMarcos Remember the Great Depression
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/721h-dimarco.html
The Depression Has Changed People's Outlook: The Beuschers Remember
the Great Depression in Dubuque, Iowa
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/721f-beuschers.html
"Please Help Us Mr. President:" Black Americans Write to Franklin D.
Roosevelt
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/841d-letters.html
"Treated Like Slaves:" Textile Workers Write to Washington
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/766a-letters.html
"What He Has Done is Sickening to Contemplate:" Catholic Liberal John
Ryan Denounces Father Charles Coughlin, 1936
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/771b-ryan.html
Indian Reorganization Act (IRA)
"It Didn't Pan Out as We Thought It was Going to:" Amos Owen on the
IRA
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/755e-owen.html
"It Had a Lot of Advantages:" Alfred DuBray Praises the IRA
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/755d-dubray.html
"It Set the Indian Aside as a Problem:" A Sioux Attorney Criticizes
the IRA
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/755f-roubideaux.html
"We Have Got a Good Friend in John Collier:" A Taos Pueblo Tries to
Sell the Indian New Deal
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/755c-Luhan.html
"We are Americans:" The Homestead Workers Issue a Declaration of Independence
in 1936
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/825a-SWOC.html
1934 General Strike
1934 International Longshoremen's Association and General Strike
http://www.oac.cdlib.org:28008/dynaweb/ead/calher/strike
The Big Strike: A Journalist Describes the 1934 San Francisco Strike
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/764c-quin.html
United Mine Workers
The Greatest Thing: A Kentucky Coal Miner on the 1933 Revival of the
United Mine Workers of America
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/761c-ratliff.html
"This is What the Union Done:" The Story of the United Mine Workers
of America in Song
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/761d-song.html
Women & Union Activity
The Los Angeles Dressmakers Strike of 1933: Anita Andrade Castro becomes
a Union Activist
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/768a-castro.html
"I Was Able to Make My Voice Really Ring Out:" The Women's Emergency
Brigade in the Flint Sit-Down Strike
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/826b-dollinger.html
"The Man...Died on My Lap:" One Woman Recalls the Memorial Day Massacre
of 1937
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/862b-marshall.html
"Organize among Yourselves:" Mary Gale on Unemployed Organizing in the
Great Depression
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/741c-gale.html
"I'm Going to Fight Like Hell:" Anna Taffler and the Unemployed Councils
of the 1930s
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/741b-taffler.html
WPA and other New Deal agencies
A New Deal for the Arts
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/newdeal/newdeal.html
The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theater Project, 1935-39
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/fthome.html
"It Was a Wildly Exciting Time:" Milton Meltzer Remembers the New Deal's
Federal Theater Project
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/823d-meltzer.html
Suspicion of Subversion: Congressional Conservatives attack the Federal
Theater Project
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/823c-flanagan.html
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers Project,
1936-1940
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
[Migrant Labor Camp Photographs from the Harry Everett Drobish Papers,
1935-36
http://sunsite2.berkeley.edu:28008/dynaweb/oac/calher/drobish/@Generic_BookTocView;hf=0;pt=2
address
changed]
America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from
the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
Every Picture Tells a Story: Documentary Photography and the Great Depression
http://chnm.gmu.edu/fsa/
[Helen Valeska Bary, "The National Recovery Administration, 1934-1935"
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:2020/dynaweb/teiproj/oh/suffragists/bary/@Generic_BookView
address changed]
1939 World's Fair
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/posters/impact.html
Topics
World War II Resources, Atomic
Bomb, Japanese American Relocation,
Posters
and Propaganda, World War II Experiences
World War II resources
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pha/
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/OU_Language/project/Hiroshima.html
War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/images/jpamer/wraintro.html
"I Am an American:" C John Yu's website on Japanese American Relocation
Camps
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8420/main.html
Amache, Colorado, Granada Relocation Center (1943)
http://www.lib.msu.edu/digital/radicalism/d769.8a6u5/amache.htm
U.S. War Relocation Authority, "Community Government in War Relocation
Centers" (1946)
http://www.lib.msu.edu/digital/radicalism/d769.8.a6a51946j.htm
WWII Poster Database
http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/
WWII Propaganda Poster
http://www.openstore.com/posters/
Pre-World War II Propaganda posters
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/propagnd/propagnd.html
"Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II"
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/powers/powers.html
World War II: Stories from the Last Great War
http://members.tripod.com/~Memory_WWII/main.html
"80 Rounds in Our Pants Pocket:" Orville Quick Remembers Pearl Harbor
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/912b-quick.html
"I Always Had Pads with Me:" A G.I. Artist's Sketchpad, 1943-44
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/s1.html
Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters
during WWII
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html