World War I, American entry/Bibliography

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• Ambrosius, Lloyd E., “Woodrow Wilson and George W. Bush: Historical Comparisons of Ends and Means in Their Foreign Policies,” Diplomatic History, 30 (June 2006), 509–43.
• Arnett, Alex Mathews. Claude Kitchin and the Wilson War Policies. 1937. Kitchen was an antiwar Democrat in the House
• Bassett, John Spencer. Our War with Germany: A History (1919) online edition
• *Brands, H.W. Theodore Roosevelt (2001), full biography online edition
• Clements, Kendrick A. "Woodrow Wilson and World War I," Presidential Studies Quarterly 34:1 (2004). pp 62+. online edition
• Clifford, J. Garry. Citizen Soldiers: The Plattsburgh Training Camp Movement, 1913-1920 (1972)
• Costrell, Edwin. How Maine viewed the war, 1914-1917, (1940)
• Crighton, John C. Missouri and the World War, 1914-1917: a study in public opinion (1947)
• Cruttwell, C. R. M. F. A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 (1934), military history from British perspective
• Cummins, Cedric Clisten. Indiana public opinion and the World War, 1914-1917, (1945)
• Davis, Allen F. American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams. 1973.
• Dodd, William Edward. Woodrow Wilson and His Work (1920) a pro-Wilson study by a leading scholar; written before the archives were opened and based on newspapers. online edition
• Early, Frances H. A World without War: How U.S. Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I. 1997.
• Esposito, David M. The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson: American War Aims in World War I. (1996) 159pp online edition
• Finnegan, John P. Against the Specter of a Dragon: The Campaign for American Military Preparedness, 1914–1917. 1975.
• Gibbs, Christopher C. The Great Silent Majority: Missouri's Resistance to World War I (1988)
• Grubbs, Frank L. The Struggle for Labor Loyalty: Gompers, the A. F. of L., and the Pacifists, 1917-1920. 1968.
• Herman, Sondra. Eleven Against War: Studies in American Internationalist Thought, 1898-1921. 1969.
• Higham, Robin and Dennis E. Showalter, eds. Researching World War I: A Handbook (2003), 475pp; highly detailed historiography, online edition
• Hodgson, Godfrey. Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House. 2006. 335pp
• Kazal, Russell A. Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German-American Identity. 2004. 390 pp.
• Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1982), covers politics & economics & society online edition
• Koistinen, Paul. Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865-1919 (1997)
• Knock, Thomas J. To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order (1995)
• Link, Arthur S. Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910-1917 (1972) standard political history of the era
• Link, Arthur S. Wilson: The Struggle for Neutrality: 1914-1915 (1960); Wilson: Confusions and Crises: 1915-1916 (1964); Wilson: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace: 1916-1917 (1965), the last volume of standard biography all 3 volumes are online at ACLS e-books
• Link, Arthur S. Wilson the Diplomatist: A Look at His Major Foreign Policies (1957) online edition
• Link, Arthur S. Woodrow Wilson and a Revolutionary World, 1913-1921 (1982) online edition
• Link, Arthur S. Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War, and Peace (1979) online edition
• Livermore, Seward W. Politics Is Adjourned: Woodrow Wilson and the War Congress, 1916-1918. 1966.
• Luebke, Frederick C. Bonds of Loyalty: German-Americans and World War I. 1974.
• McCallum, Jack. Leonard Wood: Rough Rider, Surgeon, Architect of American Imperialism (2005)
• McDonald, Forrest. Insull: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Utility Tycoon (2004)
• May, Ernest R. The World War and American Isolation, 1914-1917 (1959) online at ACLS e-books, highly influential study
• Nash, George H. Life of Herbert Hoover: The Humanitarian, 1914-1917 (Life of Herbert Hoover, Vol. 2) (1988)
• O'Toole, Patricia. When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House. (2005). 494 pp.
• Perkins, Bradford. The Great Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1895-1914 (1968)
• Peterson, H. C. Propaganda for War: The Campaign Against American Neutrality, 1914-1917. 1968.
• Rothwell, V. H. British War Aims and Peace Diplomacy, 1914-1918. (1971).
• Safford, Jeffrey J. Wilsonian Maritime Diplomacy, 1913-1921. (1978).
• Smith, Daniel. The Great Departure: The United States and World War I, 1914-1920 (1965)
• Sterba, Christopher M. Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants during the First World War. 2003. 288 pp. online edition
• Tucker, Robert W. Woodrow Wilson and the Great War: Reconsidering America's Neutrality, 1914-1917, (2007). 272 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8139-2629-2
• Unger, Nancy C. Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer (2000)
• Venzon, Anne ed. The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1995)
• Ward, Robert D. "The Origin and Activities of the National Security League, 1914–1919." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 47 (1960): 51–65. online at JSTOR
• Witcover, Jules. Black Tom: Imperial Germany's Secret War in America (1989)

Primary sources

• The Papers of Woodrow Wilson edited by Arthur S. Link complete in 69 vol, at major academic libraries. Annotated edition of all of WW's letters, speeches and writings plus many letters written to him
• Wilson, Woodrow. Why We Are at War (1917) six war messages to Congress, Jan- April 1917