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Contents
The New York Times, June 29, 1914: Heir to Austrias Throne Is Slain
Hugh Gibson: from A Journal from Our Legation in Belgium
Walter Hines Page: Memorandum, August 2, 1914
Hugo Mnsterberg to the Boston Herald, August 5, 1914
Walter Hines Page to Woodrow Wilson, August 9, 1914
Woodrow Wilson: Statement on Neutrality, August 18, 1914
Richard Harding Davis to the New York Tribune, August 21 and 30, 1914
Theodore Roosevelt to Hugo Mnsterberg, October 3, 1914
W.E.B. Du Bois: World War and the Color Line
Nellie Bly to the New York Evening Journal, October 30 and November 10, 1914
George Santayana: The Logic of Fanaticism, November 28, 1914
Alfred Bryan: I Didnt Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier
Edith Wharton: In Argonne
John Reed: Goutchevo and the Valley of Corpses
Charles E. Lauriat, Jr.: from The Lusitanias Last Voyage
Woodrow Wilson: Address to Naturalized Citizens at Convention Hall, Philadelphia, May 10, 1915
The New York Times: Roosevelt for Prompt Action, May 12, 1915
William Jennings Bryan to Gottlieb von Jagow, May 13, 1915
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Henry Morgenthau to William Jennings Bryan, May 25, 1915
W.E.B. Du Bois: Lusitania
Robert Lansing to Gottlieb von Jagow, June 9, 1915
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John Reed: Zalezchik the Terrible
Edith Wharton: In the North
Henry James to Herbert Henry Asquith, June 28, 1915
Leslie Davis to Henry Morgenthau, June 30 and July 11, 1915
Henry Morgenthau to Robert Lansing, July 16, 1915
Jane Addams: The Revolt Against War
Richard Harding Davis to The New York Times, July 13, 1915
Alan Seeger: Diary, September 16September 24, 1915, and to Elsie Simmons Seeger, October 25, 1915
James Norman Hall: Damaged Trenches
Henry Morgenthau to Robert Lansing, November 4, 1915
Theodore Roosevelt to William Castle, Jr., November 13, 1915
Emma Goldman: Preparedness, the Road to Universal Slaughter
George E. Riis to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 6, 1916
Alan Seeger: I Have a Rendezvous with Death
Ellen N. La Motte: Alone
Woodrow Wilson: Address to Congress, April 19, 1916
William B. Seabrook: from Diary of Section VIII
Victor Chapman to John Jay Chapman, June 1, 1916
Mary Borden: Conspiracy
Herbert Bayard Swope: Boelcke, Knight of the Air
Theodore Roosevelt: Speech at Cooper Union, November 3, 1916
John Jay Chapman to the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, January 4, 1917
Robert Frost: Not to Keep
Woodrow Wilson: Address to the Senate, January 22, 1917
H. L. Mencken: The Diary of a Retreat, March 10, 1917
Robert Lansing: Memorandum on the Severance of Diplomatic Relations with Germany, February 4, 1917
New York Tribune: Germany Asks Mexico to Seek Alliance with Japan for War on U.S., March 1, 1917
Edmond C. C. Genet: Diary, March 1924, 1917
Woodrow Wilson: Address to Congress on War with Germany, April 2, 1917
George Norris: Speech in the U.S. Senate, April 4, 1917
George M. Cohan: Over There
Majority Report of the St. Louis Socialist Convention, April 11, 1917
Walter Lippmann: The World Conflict in Its Relation to American Democracy
Herbert Hoover: Introduction to Women of Belgium
The New York Times: German Airmen Kill 97, Hurt 437 in London Raid, June 14, 1917
Woodrow Wilson: Flag Day Address in Washington, D.C., June 14, 1917
Randolph Bourne: The War and the Intellectuals
Carlos F. Hurd to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 3, 1917
Norman Thomas: Wars Heretics, a Plea for the Conscientious Objector
Jessie Fauset to The Survey, August 18, 1917
John Dos Passos to Rumsey Marvin, August 23, 1917
Martha Gruening: Houston, an N.A.A.C.P. Investigation
Dorothy Canfield Fisher to Sarah Cleghorn, September 5, 1917
James Weldon Johnson: Experienced Men Wanted, November 8, 1917
Carrie Chapman Catt: Votes for All
Mary Borden: Unidentified
Charles J. Biddle: from The Way of the Eagle
Bernice Evans: The Sayings of Patsy, December 30, 1917
Woodrow Wilson: Address to Congress on War Aims, January 8, 1918
Shirley Millard: from I Saw Them Die
John J. Pershing: Remarks to the Officers of the 1st Division, April 16, 1918
Shirley Millard: from I Saw Them Die
Floyd Gibbons: WoundedHow It Feels to Be Shot
Frederick A. Pottle: from Stretchers
James Weldon Johnson: Why Should a Negro Fight?, June 29, 1918
W.E.B. Du Bois: Close Ranks
Hubert H. Harrison: Why Is the Red Cross?
Ernest Hemingway to His Family, July 21, 1918
Woodrow Wilson: Statement on Lynching, July 26, 1918
James Reese Europe: On Patrol in No Mans Land.
Shirley Millard: from I Saw Them Die
Hervey Allen: from Toward the Flame
Ernest Hemingway to His Family, August 18, 1918
Frederick Trevenen Edwards to Frederick Edwards, September 12, 1918
Eugene V. Debs: Speech to the Court, September 14, 1918