"The War to End All Wars": European Society and the First World War, Hist 2106: Primary Sources 2

Books and other materials in library catalogs

Suggested very broad keyword searches:
[YOUR TOPIC OR NAME] AND (diaries OR diary OR correspondence OR letters OR interviews OR "personal narratives" OR "personal narrative" OR "oral histories" OR "oral history" OR autobiograph* OR memoir* OR sermon* OR speeches OR speech OR addresses OR address)

[YOUR TOPIC OR NAME] AND ("documentary histories" OR "documentary history" OR archives OR sources)

For a more specific search, search Compass or WorldCat:

• for a name, class of persons, or ethnic group and the word "diaries", e.g.

  Cocteau AND diaries
  soldiers AND diaries
  "Canadian Americans" AND diaries
  to broaden the search: "Canadian Americans" AND (diaries OR diary)

• for the name of the writer or addressee, class of persons, or ethnic group and the word "correspondence", e.g.

  "Scholl, Hans" AND correspondence
  "college students" AND correspondence
  naturalists AND correspondence

• for a name, class of persons, or ethnic group and the word "interviews", e.g.

  Mitchell AND interviews
  businesswomen AND interviews

• on a name of event or war and the quoted phrase "personal narratives" to retrieve eyewitness or autobiographical accounts, e.g.

  "Hurricane Katrina" AND "personal narratives"
  "Korean War" AND "personal narratives"

• on the name of the individual using a subject search to retrieve autobiographies or memoirs, e.g.

  "Twain, Mark"

• subject search in Compass, WorldCat, HathiTrust, or Historical Abstracts for travelogues on the name of your country and the word "travel", e.g.

  china AND travel

• similarly search on:
  [YOUR TOPIC OR NAME] AND (sermons OR sermon)
  [YOUR TOPIC OR NAME] AND (addresses OR address)
  [YOUR TOPIC OR NAME] AND (speeches OR speech)

To narrow your search even more, you can search the following terms/phrases in subject headings:
addresses, correspondence, diaries, interviews, letters, personal narratives, sermons, speeches, archives, sources.

The World War I Document Archive, Brigham Young University Library

Search Google for online libraries or archives on World War I using a search like:
"world war i" AND (library or archive) AND site:.xx
where xx is a top-level domain for a country of interest. Some example results:

• First World War Collection, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (using site:.de)
• Lifestyle images from the era of World War I, Hungarian National Digital Archive (using site:.hu)
• World War One, British Library (using site:.uk)

See the list of Country code top-level domains.

• 1914-1918, Europeana, "The First World War thematic collection gathers the untold stories and official histories of World War I, in a unique blend of cultural heritage collections and personal items contributed by European citizens."