American History Since 1877

Resources selected to supplement American History Since 1877 (HSTY 202) taught at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

War and the American State, 1914-1920

Books in Our Library

• Ellis Island Interviews: In Their Own Words [JV6455 .C53 1997]
• The Intimate Papers of Colonel House Arranged as a Narrative [E766 .H85 v.1 - v.4]
• Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti [HX843 .S33 1997]
• Lusitania: an Epic Tragedy [D592.L8 P74 2002]
• My Experiences in the World War (by General Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948) [D570 .P44 1931]
• No magic bullet: a Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880 [RC201.47 .B73 1985]
• The Peace Negotiations, a Personal Narrative, by Robert Lansing [D644 .L3] "Notes: 'The President's original draft of the covenant of the league of nations, laid before the American commission on Jan 10, 1919': p. [281]-294"
• The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War [D521 .O94 2000]
• Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal [D643.A7 B28]

Note: To find books in the TC3 Library, go to the main Library Gateway page and search the TC3 Catalog. Use the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat to find books in other libraries which you can request through the TC3 Library's Interlibrary Loan service.

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)

Try these suggested subject headings to find books on War and the American State, 1914-1920 in the TC3 Library Catalog and/or WorldCat.

• The League of Nations
• Treaty of Versailles, 1919
• United States, Emigration and immigration, History
• Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
• World War, 1914-1918
• United States, Politics and government, 1865-1918

Other Media

• The Great War--1918 [videorecording - VHS cassette] [Media D545.A63 G7 1990] Series: The American Experience. "Summary: A history of United States soldiers in the closing battle of World War I told through letters and diaries including those of General John J. (Blackjack) Pershing, Sergeant Alvin York, and Sergeant Harry S. Truman. Features interviews with French and American veterans and nurses. Uses contemporary film footage."

History Journals in Electronic Format

History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals by title & Subject.

Web Resources

• American Leaders Speak Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
• Birth of a Nation
  Excerpts from D. W. Griffith's silent film.
• Ellis Island
• First World War: The War to End All Wars
  Website contains primary source materials: photographs, speeches and songs, memoirs, dispatches, treaties, etc.
• A Letter from Camp Devens, Massachusetts
  Primary source document on the topic of the 1919 flu epidemic - letter from Surgical Ward No. 16 on September 29, 1918.
• Sacco and Vanzetti
  Website contains links to letters from Sacco and Vanzetti, as well as video clips.
• Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919
  Online collection offers the entire run of the official weekly newspaper of the U.S. Army fighting forces during WWI.
• Visual Culture and Health Posters: Infectious Disease
  This feature of "Profiles in Science" from the U.S. National Library of Medicine provides links to posters of the early 20th century, including those that target the threat of venereal disease and tuberculosis from 1916-1919, during World War I and World War II.
• World War I Document Archive
  This archive of primary documents from World War I has been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L).