Summary: In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the war on April 6, 1917, a six-hour documentary presented over three nights, explores how World War I changed America and the world. Drawing on the latest scholarship, including unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, it tells the rich and complex story of the conflict through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Keller, Shana

Summary: Polly misses her father, a soldier fighting in France during World War I, and at home everything is rationed; Polly wants to do her part to help, so she and her friends organize a parade to collect peach pits which are used in the manufacture of gas masks.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022

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Larson, Kirby

Summary: After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013

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Bausum, Ann

Summary: Documents the heroic wartime achievements of a World War I mascot who was adopted by a soldier as an orphaned pup and who gained military honors and a display in the Smithsonian Institution for his brave service behind enemy lines.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books 2014

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Weiss, Elaine F.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books 2008

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Lanctot, Neil

Summary: "By turns a colorful triptych of three American icons who changed history and the engrossing story of the roots of World War I, The Approaching Storm is a surprising and important story of how and why the United States emerged onto the world stage"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021

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Millman, Chad.

Summary: An account of the World War I bombing of Black Tom Island in New York Harbor describes the reticence of the president to prevent the attack, the German government's evasion of responsibility, and the efforts of lawyers to determine accountability.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2006

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Smith, Page.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1985

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Ruby, Harry.

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, Co. 1919

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Preston, Diana

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2002

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Englund, Will

Summary: "A riveting history of the month that transformed the world's greatest nations as Russia faced revolution and America entered World War I. "We are provincials no longer," said Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917, at his second inaugural. He spoke on the eve of America's entrance into World War I, as Russia teetered between autocracy and democracy. Just ten days after Wilson's declaration, Tsar...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017

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Summary: The true story of a stray dog who became a hero of the First World War. For his keen instincts and fierce loyalty, Stubby is still recognized today as the most decorated canine in American history and the first promoted to the rank of Sergeant in the U.S. Army.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2018

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Levine, Beth Seidel.

Summary: Teenage Simone's diaries for 1917 and 1918 reveal her experiences as a carefree member of New York society, then as a "Hello girl," a volunteer switchboard operator for the Army Signal Corps in France.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2002

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Von Tilzer, Albert.

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Music Corp. 1919

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Traxel, David.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006

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Preston, Diana

Summary: Examines the sinking of the Lusitania on May 17, 1915 by a German torpedo which killed 1200 civilians.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002

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