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Mobilizing Woman Power
Book by Elizabeth Cady Stanton's daughter Harriot Stanton Blatch on the role of women in World War I.

History of a Hello Girl
Michelle Christides tells the history of the "Hello Girls," bilingual switchboard operators who served in World War I in the US Army Signal Corps.

The Home Front
Peter Caddick-Adams of the BBC details life on the home front in World War I and II Britain, with attention to contrasting the status and roles of women in the two time periods.

Kate Richards O'Hare and World War I Sedition
Socialist and labor organizer Kate Richards O'Hare was one of the Americans incarcerated after World War I for violating the Espionage Act. Learn more here with a summary and reproductions of original documents about Richards and her activities.

Nursing Documents: The Medical History of World War I
A series of documents by and about nurses during World War I, with a bit of background for the different types of documents included.

The Poster War
An online exhibit of Allied propaganda art of World War I, including some focus (not exclusive) on the portrayal of women and Canadian poster artists.

Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant
This journalist was wounded while covering the Western Front during World War I.

Shade of Gray: Backstory
Historical background for a movie, A Shade of Gray: the story of "soldiers of the switchboards," the "Hello Girls" of World War I. (Director: Keith Carradine)

Thirty Thousand Women Were There
Women served in World War I, primarily as nurses and mostly in the Navy.

Unsung Women: Signal Corps Women
Women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, three hundred strong, who served as bi-lingual operators to help with operations in France.

Edith Wharton
She visited the warfront, at the urging of the French Red Cross, and then wrote about the war.

With High Hopes: Women Contract Surgeons in World War I
Article from Minerva (Quarterly Report on Women and the Miiitary) on female doctors during World War I.

Women and the First World War
British women served in World War I in record numbers. This site details many of the individuals and organizations connected with women and the war effort.

Women at War
Article by Peter Caddick-Adams details the role of British women in World Wars One and Two: the roles women served in, why they were excluded from combat, how World War One provided new opportunities 0nd how the participation of women was essential in World War II.

Women's War Work
This 1916 book written by Jennie Churchill -- Lady Randolph Churchill -- details the role of women in World War I, including British, French, and American women's efforts.