Useful sites for research and further education:
National World War I Museum – located in Kansas City, Missouri, the site is filled with educational programs for all ages, including a searchable online collections database and interactive timeline.
United States World War I Centennial Commission – Check out the Teaching Resources, Learning Resources and Location Explorer; very comprehensive
Encyclopedia of the First World War
WWI Centennial Network – Over the Top Magazine
1914-1918 – Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
40 Maps that Explain World War I
World War I Centennial Network
History of War-time Nurses (recommended by Peyton, age 13)
Recommended books:
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
American Women in World War I: They Also Served – Lettie Gavin
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein, 1933
Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars – Edited by Margaret Randolph Higonnet et al.
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania – Erik Larson, 2015
Elsie & Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front – Diane Atkinson, 2010
The First World War – John Keegan
Guns of August – Barbara Tuchman
Into the Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I – Dorothy and Carl J. Schneider
The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and their Forgotten World War – Richard Rubin, 62013
Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country: The World War I Memoir of Margaret Hall – Margaret Higonnet, 2014
Maise Dobbs Series – Jacqueline Winspear
Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War – Kimberly Jensen
A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
Out Here at the Front: The World War I Letters of Nora Saltonstall – Judith Graham (Editor), 2004
Over Here: the First World War and American Society – David M. Kennedy
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 – John Baxter, 2014
The Roses of No Man’s Land – Lyn MacDonald (Inspiration for the PBS series – Crimson Field)
Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain (also the movie Testament of Youth, 2015)