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 Drawing on the latest scholarship, including unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, it tells the rich and complex story of the conflict through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and...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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GREKeller, 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
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JE FIC KELBausum, 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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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.4 BAULarson, 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
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC LARWeiss, Elaine F.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.373 WEILanctot, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 LANMillman, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 MILSmith, Page.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 SMITraxel, David.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.89 TRAPreston, Diana
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.45 PRESummary: Presidential campaign of 1912. Shots of Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt campaigning.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1912
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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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.45 PREEnglund, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3 ENGSummary: Demonstration of “liquid fire” (flamethrower) English title refers to beating the "huns" (Germans) at their own game.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: World War I: US General Pershing decorates French General Petain
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1918
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Summary: “America's pirate chasers”: American speed boats in action (high-speed wooden craft)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1918
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Summary: WWI - American celebration of Armistice
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1918
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Summary: Dublin destruction after Easter Rising.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916
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Summary: American airplane factory, WWI era: title says "Americans bid for Air Mastery"; early assembly line; workers tune engines on row of biplanes; shots of planes taking the air and maneuvering.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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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
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SGTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SaSummary: World War I: Bombed-out city near Verdun; France; destruction; devastation.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916
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Von Tilzer, Albert.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Music Corp. 1919
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMRuby, Harry.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, Co. 1919
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: World War I: "80 Minutes To Berlin": squadron of biplanes in flight; aviation.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916