Here’s a preview of some of the core texts of our seminar; a complete reading list (along with a detailed daily schedule) will be given to participants before the seminar.
All your readings will be provided – there’s no need for you to buy any books!
Secondary Historical Sources
- Santanu Das, Race, Empire, and First World War Writing (Cambridge UP, 2011)
- John Keegan, The First World War (Vintage, 1998)
- Amy Shaw, “Expanding the Narrative: A First World War with Women, Children, and Grief,” The Canadian Historical Review, 95:3 (Sep 2014)
- Hew Strachan, The First World War (Simon and Schuster, 2006)
- Chad Williams, Torchbearers of Democracy: African-American Soldiers in the World War I Era (UNC Press, 2010)
Primary Historical Sources
- “The Hindenburg Program” (1916)
- Kaiser Wilhelm Speech (1914)
- Letters from soldiers in the British Indian Army
- Posters of the First World War
- Resolutions adopted by the International Congress of Women
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery
Literary Texts
- Mulk Raj Anand, Across the Black Waters
- Vera Brittain, “The Lament of the Demobilised”
- Mary Burrill, “To a Black Soldier Fallen in the War”
- Victor Daly, Not Only War
- W.E.B. DuBois, “The Black Soldier”
- Timothy Findlay, The Wars
- Ernest Hemingway, “Soldier’s Home”
- Claude McKay, “If We Must Die”
- Wilfred Owen, “Dulce Et Decorum Est”
- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
- Siegfried Sassoon, “Repression of War Experience”
- Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier