Michigan in WWI Primary Sources

American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election

Library of Congress
Digital collection of excerpts from political speeches.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/world-war-i-and-1920-election-recordings/about-this-collection/

The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson

NBC-TV/Encyclopedia Britannica Films
Documentary from the 1950s, narrated by Herbert Hoover, on the life of Woodrow Wilson.
https://archive.org/details/ordealofwoodrowwilson

Versailles Newsreels

British Pathé
Newsreels covering the Versailles peace conference and its repercussions.
https://britishpathe.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/versailles/

League of Nations Photo Archive

Indiana University
A look into the events and overall climate in the United States prior to entering the war.
http://www.indiana.edu/~league/

Topics in Chronicling America: WWI Declarations

Library of Congress
A collection of newspaper articles announcing declarations of war at the start of WWI.
https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/ww1declarations.html 

The World War I Document Archive

• The Zimmerman Note
• Wilson's War Message to Congress
• Wilson's Fourteen Points
• The Peace Treaty of Versailles
• The Covenant of the League of Nations
• President Wilson's Address in Favor of the League of Nations
• Henry Cabot Lodge against the League of Nations
• Eyewitness account from Borijove Jevtic, accomplice to the assassination
• Eyewitness account from Count Franz von Harrach, bodyguard to Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• The Willi-Nicky Telegrams
• Americans Take Belleau Wood - an account from a New York Times war correspondent
• Soldier's memoir recounting the first gas attack
• Letters from the First World War, 1915
• Letters from the First World War, 1916-18