Exploring Adam Matthew's First World War: Personal Experiences

Emory Libraries recently purchased access to The First World War: Personal Experiences, Adam Matthew's new online resource focusing on personal experiences during the First World War. The resource makes a very nice addition to Emory's print and microfilm primary materials on the First World War, as well as the Beck Center's  website on the Great War.

The collection is particularly notable for the variety of resources it makes available:

• Diaries and journals
• Letters
• Personal narratives and reminiscences
• Trench literature and soldiers’ journals
• Postcards
• Scrapbooks and albums
• Photographs and 360° views of personal items and objects
• Sketches and paintings
• Ephemera
• Sheet music
• Photographs
• War art
• Cartoons and comics
• Propaganda and recruiting posters
• Trench maps

These resources come from archives, museums and libraries across the globe:

• Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand
• Cambridge University Library
• Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte in the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart
• Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
• Mills Memorial Library, McMaster University, Canada
• National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, Kansas City
• Hooge Crater Museum

Supplementing the primary source material is a wealth of secondary resources, including interactive maps, 360° panoramas and walk-throughs of the Sanctuary Wood Trench System, the Memory Wall, In Their Own Words feature, scholarly essays, a slideshow gallery, chronology and glossaries.