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Teaching the First World War
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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Annika Mombauer, Vincent Trott and Stuart Mitchell and was first published in December 2023.

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The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course:

Images

Course image: *** © IWM Art.IWM ART 1656; https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/20015

Figure 1: Baumgarten, Eugen von/ Cornell University – PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography. Digital image: Historic Images / Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 1: Chicago : Chas. Gustrine, 1918, Library of Congress, https://tile.loc.gov/ storage-services/ service/ pnp/ ppmsca/ 18600/ 18640v.jpg

Figure 2: President George H W Bush:AACL: Albanian American Civic League

Figure 3: taken from: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ lccn/ sn85042243/ 1918-08-09/ ed-1/ seq-8/

Figure 4: ***Imperial War Museum: (c) IWM 26583; https://www.iwm.org.uk/ collections/ item/ object/ 26583

Figure 5: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo

Figures 6 and 7: Digital Library@Villanova University; taken from: https://digital.library.villanova.edu/ Item/ vudl:145752#?c=&m=&s=&cv=2&xywh=-4738%2C-263%2C12832%2C5247

Figure 8: artist H. Charles McBarron, Jr., (c) Federal Government of the United States

Figure 9: Horace Pippin. Horace Pippin memoir of his experiences in World War I, ca. 1921. Horace Pippin notebooks and letters, circa 1920. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Figure 10: Horace Pippin (American, 1888–1946), Philadelphia Museum of Art, www.philamuseum.org.

Figure 12: Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre

Figure 13: Glenbow Archives NA-2164-1 via Alberta Historic Places

Figure 14: Hill 70; https://www.hill70.ca/Battle-of-Hill-70/Hill-70-Gallery/Story-Robe/The-Story-of-Mike-Mountain-Horse.aspx

Figure 1: Chicago : Chas. Gustrine, 1918, Library of Congress, https://tile.loc.gov/ storage-services/ service/ pnp/ ppmsca/ 18600/ 18640v.jpg

Figure 2: President George H W Bush:AACL: Albanian American Civic League

Figure 3: taken from: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ lccn/ sn85042243/ 1918-08-09/ ed-1/ seq-8/

Figure 4: ***Imperial War Museum: (c) IWM 26583; https://www.iwm.org.uk/ collections/ item/ object/ 26583

Figure 5: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo

Figures 6 and 7: Digital Library@Villanova University; taken from: https://digital.library.villanova.edu/ Item/ vudl:145752#?c=&m=&s=&cv=2&xywh=-4738%2C-263%2C12832%2C5247

Figure 8: artist H. Charles McBarron, Jr., (c) Federal Government of the United States

Figure 9: Horace Pippin. Horace Pippin memoir of his experiences in World War I, ca. 1921. Horace Pippin notebooks and letters, circa 1920. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Figure 10: Horace Pippin (American, 1888–1946), Philadelphia Museum of Art, www.philamuseum.org.

Figure 12: Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre

Figure 13: Glenbow Archives NA-2164-1 via Alberta Historic Places

Figure 1: PATRICK ANTHONISZ / Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 2: GaryBlakeley; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 4.0/

Figures 3 and 4: MS 43721 ‘Dulce et Decorum est.’, Poems, 1911-18 (ink on paper), Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918) / English, BL3468052. © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved / Bridgeman Images

Figure 5: ***Imperial War Museum: © IWM Art.IWM ART 518; https://www.iwm.org.uk/ collections/ item/ object/ 20211

Figure 6: ***Imperial War Museum: © IWM (Art.IWM ART 1460). https://www.iwm.org.uk/ collections/ item/ object/ 23722

Figure 7: ***Imperial War Museum: © IWM Q 31513; https://www.iwm.org.uk/ history/ what-is-the-cenotaph

Figure 8: Angelo Hornak / Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 9: Käthe Kollwitz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Figure 1: photograph Jarretera / Shutterstock.com

Figures 2 and 3: Google Scholar

Figure 4: JSTOR logo © JSTOR; photograph II.studio / Shutterstock.com

Figures 5 and 7: search results from JSTOR

Figure 6: Jure Divich/Shutterstock.com

Figure 8: Taken from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26073; Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 25 (1990) 289-316, Sage Publications Ltd.

Figure 10: sample from German History in Documents and Images webpage: http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/ home.cfm; © GHDI

Figure 11: Steven Frame / 123RF

Text

‘The Call’: Jessie Pope, 1914

‘Dulce et Decorum Est’: Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, 1918

Audio/Visual

Audio: ‘On Patrol in No Mans Land’ taken from: James Reese Europe's 369th U.S. Infantry "Hell Fighters" Band; https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=YeIET9ZIkGk

Audio: ‘On Patrol in No Mans Land’ taken from: James Reese Europe's 369th U.S. Infantry "Hell Fighters" Band; https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=YeIET9ZIkGk

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