WWI Resources

Web Sites

• Base Hospital 50 - UW Special Collections Story Map 
• Nevers, France, During WWI 
• Base Hospitals of the AEF 
• Roses of No Man's Land: Wisconsin's World War I Nurses based in part on the collection of Aimee O'Keefe Kinney, a nurse who served with Base Hospital 50. 
• American Women Physicians in World War I - American Medical Women's Association
• American Women in WWI - Highlighting the unsung heroines of the war

Books about Women's Service in WWI

• Adie, Kate. Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One. Hodder & Stoughton, 2013. 
• Atwood, Kathryn J. Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics. Chicago Review Press, 2016. 
• Bingham, Jane. Women at War: The Progressive Era, World War I and Women's Suffrage, 1900-1920. Chelsea House Publishers, 2011.
• Brown, Carrie. Rosie's Mom: Forgotten Women Workers of the First World War. Northeastern University Press, 2013. 
• Cobbs, Elizabeth. The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers. Harvard University Press, 2017. 
• Dumenil, Lynn. The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I. University of Carolina Press, 2017. 
• Ebbert, Jean and Mary-Beth Hall. The First, the Few, the Forgotten: Navy and Marine Corps Women in World War I. US Naval Institute Press, 2002. 
• Foxwell, Elizabeth. In Their Own Words: American Women in World War I. Oconee Spirit Press, 2015. 
• Gavin, Lettie. American Woman in World War I. University of Colorado Press, 2006. 
• Jensen, Kimberly. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War. University of Illinois Press, 2008. 
• Kennedy, Kathleen. Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion during World War I. Indiana University Press, 1999. 
• Olsen, Kirstin. Daily Life of Women in the Progressive Era. Greenwood, 2019.
• Nielsen, Kim E. Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism, Antifeminism, and the First Red Scare. Ohio State University, 2001. 
• Schneider, Dorothy. American Women in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920. Facts on File, 1993.
• Schneider, Dorothy and Carl J. Schneider. Into the Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I. Viking, 1991. 
• Zeiger, Susan. In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers With the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919. Cornell University Press, 2000.

Documentaries

• The American in Paris: The True Story of the American Hospital of Paris in WWI by Antony Easton (2017, 60 min.)
• At Home and Over There: American Women Physicians in World War I by Jack Klink (2017, 15 min.)
• Gold Star Mothers: Pilgrimage of Remembrance by Alison Davis Wood (WILL-TV, 2003, 57 min.)
• The Great War by Stephen Ives and Amanda Pollak (PBS, 2017, 360 min.)
• Hallowed Grounds: America’s Overseas Military Cemeteries by Robert Uth. (American Experience, PBS, 2009, 60 min.)
• Influenza 1918 by Robert Kenner (American Experience, PBS, 2006, 60 min.)