Ms. Lyon & Mr. Splawn | Modern World: World War I and World War II: Recommended Resources

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"World War 1914-1918"

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Aerial Operations

Aircraft and Aces

Harlem Hellfighters (369th Infantry Regiment)

Plastic Surgery 

Trench Warfare

Weapon Technology

Women

African American Women

War Criminals and Nazis and United States

Primary Sources:

Arthur, Max and Imperial War Museum (Great Britain). Forgotten Voices of the Great War: A History of World War I in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2004. 

Neiberg, Michael S. The World War I Reader: Primary and Secondary Sources. New York: New York University Press, 2007. 

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African Americans - World War I and II:

Moore, Christopher Paul. Fighting for America: Black soldiers-- the Unsung Heroes of World War II. New York: Presidio Press/Ballantine Books, 2006.

Wright, Kai. Soldiers of Freedom: An Illustrated History of African Americans in the Armed Forces. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2002.

Ambulance Workers:

Edited By Hazel King. 2016. One Woman At War : Letters of Olive King 1915–1920. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press Digital. https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=c074ebe1-5f25-34b5-913b-8ae83f13f835

"WW1 centenary: How 'female Tommies' and sexism helped save Britain; On the First World War centenary, Radhika Sanghani looks at the lives of 'female Tommies' - young British women who left the home front to drive ambulances, work in trenches and even fight on the front line." Telegraph Online, August 4, 2014. Gale In Context: Environmental Studies (accessed April 11, 2024). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A377277748/GRNR?u=mlin_w_berksch&sid=ebsco&xid=20e4e719

Dupont Chemical Powder Workers:

McConnel, Deborah L. “Lou Cretia Owen and the Old Hickory Munitions Plant during World War I.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 75, no. 3 (2016): 202–21. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26540240

Mulrooney, Margaret M. Labor at home: The domestic world of workers at the Du Pont powder mills, 1802-1902. The College of William and Mary, 1996. https://www.proquest.com/openview/b45088b7b37da1c667d73f8d96b52a0a/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

Harlem Hellfighters:

Slotkin, Richard. Lost Battalions: The Great War and The Crisis of American Nationality. New York, NY: H. Holt, 2005.

Williams, Chad L. Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Accessed November 2, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/reader.action?docID=605945

Haile Selassie and League of Nations Speech:

Coleman, Sterling Joseph. 2008. “Gradual Abolition or Immediate Abolition of Slavery? The Political, Social and Economic Quandary of Emperor Haile Selassie I.” Slavery & Abolition 29 (1): 65–82. https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=ff6886cf-0972-3e41-8270-cdafdc83aa1c

Selassie, Bereket Habte. Emperor Haile Selassie. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2014. Accessed April 22, 2024. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/detail.action?docID=1794570

Hello Girls - WWI:

Cobbs, Elizabeth. The Hello Girls : America’s First Women Soldiers. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press. 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=169ac346-294f-3456-95e5-172784ec37a4.

Frahm, Jill. The Hello Girls: Women Telephone Operators with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Jul., 2004), 271-293. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25144374.

Latin America and World War I:

Dehne, Phillip. How Important Was Latin America to the First World War? Iberoamericana (2001-) 14, no. 53 (2014): 151–64. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24368641.

MacLeod, Jenny and Pierre Purseigle. Uncovered Fields: Perspectives in First World War Studies. Chapter by Olivier Compagnon: 1914–18: The Death Throes of Civilization. The Elites of Latin-America Face the Great War. ProQuest EBook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/reader.action?docID=253768&ppg=291.

Nurses:

Jensen, Kimberly. 2005. “A Base Hospital Is Not a Coney Island Dance Hall: American Women Nurses, Hostile Work Environment, and Military Rank in the First World War.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 26 (2): 206–35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4137405.

Moore, Wendy. 2020. “A Hospital ‘Manned by Women.’” History Today 70 (6): 12–15. https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=37c448a8-2595-3d6f-9e88-549a15187e5e

Plastic Surgery:

Fitzharris, Lindsey. The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Reid, Fiona. Medicine in First World War Europe : Soldiers, Medics, Pacifists. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017. Accessed October 5, 2022. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/reader.action?docID=4812157

Trench Warfare:

Yorke, Trevor. The Trench: Life and Death on the Western Front 1914-1918. Berks: Countryside Books, 2014. Accessed November 2, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/reader.action?docID=3121037

Tuskegee Airmen:

Haulman, Daniel L. The Tuskegee Airmen in Combat. Air Power History 57, no. 3 (2010): 14–21. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26275921.

Moye, J. Tood. Freedom Flyers: the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Use of Aircraft and Flying Aces:

Murray, Williamson. War in the Air, 1914-45. London: Cassell, 1999. 

Hart, Peter. Aces Falling: War Above the Trenches, 1918. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007. 

S. Leach, Norman. Cavalry of the Air: An Illustrated Introduction to the Aircraft and Aces of the First World War. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2014. Accessed November 2, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/reader.action?docID=5104513

Weapon Technology:

Chivers, C J. The Gun. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.

Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women. Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, 2016.

Tucker, Jonathan B. War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to al-Qaeda. New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. 

Spiers, Edward M. A History of Chemical and Biological Weapons. London: Reaktion Books, Limited, 2010. Accessed November 2, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/reader.action?docID=618774

Coleman, K. A History of Chemical Warfare. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2005. Accessed November 2, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/reader.action?docID=257360

War Criminals Nazi Officers & War Crimes:

Levinson, Sanford. “Responsibility for Crimes of War.” Philosophy & Public Affairs 2, no. 3 (1973): 244–73. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2264912.

Rojansky, Matt. “Obstruction and Delay: The Hunt for Nazi War Criminals.” Harvard International Review 22, no. 4 (2001): 34–37. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42764071.

Rosenbaum, Basia. "70 Years since Nuremberg, the Search for Nazis Continues: An Interview with Efraim Zuroff." Harvard International Review 36, no. 4 (Summer, 2015): 49-51. https://berkshireschool.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/central/scholarly-journals/70-years-since-nuremberg-search-nazis-continues/docview/1765856039/sem-2?accountid=8583.

Stephen Tyas. "Smoke and Mirrors: The German Foreign Intelligence Service's Release of Names of Former Nazi Employees," Holocaust and Genocide Studies 25, no. 2 (Fall 2011): 290-299. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/hologen25&i=296.

Women:

Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women. Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, 2016. 

Braybon, Gail. Women Workers in the First World War. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. Accessed November 2, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/reader.action?docID=1101376

Dumenil, Lynn. 2017. The Second Line of Defense : American Women and World War I. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=0c689bb2-0f75-35fb-8a78-994413faad0f

Gavin, Lettie. American Women in World War I: They Also Served. University Press of Colorado, 1997. Accessed November 2, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/reader.action?docID=3039837

Yellin, Emily. Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front during World War II.New York: Free Press, 2004.