The World War I Document Archive is an archive of primary documents from World War I. A primary document is a source of information that was created at roughly the time in question by someone with direct personal knowledge of the events being described and can include: diaries or artifacts.
The World War I Document Archive contains first hand accounts of diaries, official papers, treaties, speeches etc. Another benefit to this site is the documents archived are not just American, British, German, Canadian but are from a wide variety of countries that participated in World War I.
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This type of resource would best be used when a student was researching something beyond the actual events.
In the Unit One: Death of the Old Order section of History 20, the Russian Revolution is covered.
In that unit the decisions of the Czar are questioned and his actions and inactions set the stage for the Russian Revolution that allowed the Communists to come to power. The World War I Document Archive contains a link to a site with Lenin's call to power.
If a student were to use this site on a project he or she could really capture the feel of the times as written by the people who were there. I think it would also give the students a new perspective on the events because we have the luxury of time to look back, but the writers of the source documents were living history.
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Not all of the links on The World War I Document Archive go to outside sources, but so do in order to give the largest possible collection of archived material.
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