1914: THEN CAME ARMAGEDDON

Bibliography

United Against Germany

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  • “Reality.” London: G.B. Dibblee, n.d.
  • United States Committee On Public Information. Germany’s Confession: The Lichnowsky Memorandum. Washington: Govt. print. off, 1918.
  • Truth About Germany: Facts About The War. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Adam Matthew Digital, 2013.

Belgian Crossroads

  • Malcolm, Ian, editor. Scraps of Paper: German Proclamations in Belgium and France. London; New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916.

Great Britain in WWI

Outbreak in France

  • Welschinger, Henri. Les Leçons Du Livre Jaune (1914). Paris: Bloud et Gay, 1915.

War Begins in Austria and Serbia

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Germany Mobilizes for War

War and Technology

Medals

  • Andrew Laurie Stangel Collection. Collection of Historical Materials Relating to German History, 18501947.
  • Arnold Hartig, Commemorating the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo, 1914, Bronze, Chazen Museum of Art, UW-Madison, Gift of Dr. Andrew Laurie Stangel, 2010.32.140.
  • August Gaul, Oath to the German Austro-Hungarian Alliance, 1915, Iron, Chazen Museum of Art, UW-Madison, Gift of Dr. Andrew Laurie Stangel, 2010.32.169.
  • B. H. Mayer Mint, Pforzheim, WWI Propaganda, 1914-1915, Bronze, Chazen Museum of Art, UW-Madison, Gift of Dr. Andrew Laurie Stangel, 2010.32.130.
  • Émile Séraphin Vernier, Verdun, “On ne passe pas!”, 1916, Bronze, Chazen Museum of Art, UW-Madison, Gift of Dr. Andrew Laurie Stangel, 2010.32.108.
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  • Karl Goetz, The Russian Ambassador Receives the Serbian Assassins (Sarajevo, The Spark of the World Conflagration), 1914, Bronze, Chazen Museum of Art, UW-Madison, Gift of Dr. Andrew Laurie Stangel, 2010.32.12.
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Fragments from France

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Death and Memorialization of WWI

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  • Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. The Graves of the Fallen: Imperial War Graves Commission. London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1919.
  • The Care of the Dead. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1916.

This digital exhibit was made possible through a partnership of the George L. Mosse Program in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, UW Libraries, UWDC, and Special Collections. The exhibit is an expansion of a physical exhibit curated by Eric O’Connor and Skye Doney in 2014. 

Special thanks to Charles Cahill, Matthew Greene, Julianne Haahr, Jesse Henderson, Dave Luke, David Pavelich, Eric O’Connor, Robin Rider, Carly Sentieri, John Tortorice.

The curators of the digital exhibit include George L. Mosse Digital Interns in Digital and European History: Aideen Gabbai, Claire Hitter, Rachel Lynch, Maddy McDonald, Maddy McGlone, and Nicholas O’Connell. 

Rachel Lynch launched the exhibit. Aideen Gabbai and Maddy McDonald expanded and finalized it.