History, Modern -- 20th century
See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.
Broader terms:Narrower terms:- History, Modern -- 20th century -- Bibliography
- History, Modern -- 20th century -- Chronology
- History, Modern -- 20th century -- Historiography
- History, Modern -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- History, Modern -- 20th century -- Miscellanea
- History, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals
- History, Modern -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
- History, Modern -- 20th century -- Sources
- Biography -- 20th century
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1939-1945
- World history -- 20th century
![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif)
Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (c1966), by Carroll Quigley (PDF at carrollquigley.net)- Human Rights and Democracy: The Precarious Triumph of Ideals (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2013), by Todd Landman
- The Disasters Darwinism Brought to Humanity, by Hârun Yahya (multiple formats at harunyahya.info)
- These Eventful Years: The Twentieth Century in the Making, As Told by Many of its Makers, Being the Dramatic Story of All That Has Happened Throughout The World During the Most Momentous Period in All History (2 volumes; London and New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, c1924), ed. by Franklin Henry Hooper
- The Shape of Things to Come (1933), by H. G. Wells (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- Revisionist Bibliography (1981; bibliography section only), by Keith Stimely (HTML at ihr.org)
- Newsweek (partial serial archives)
- The Freeman (New York; 1920-1924), ed. by Francis Neilson and Albert Jay Nock (full serial archives)
- Fame in the 20th Century (electronic edition, with complete text and some illustrations of print edition; 2010), by Clive James (HTML at clivejames.com)
- America Here and Over There (New York and Cincinnati: Abingdon Press, c1918), by Luther Barton Wilson (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)
- Between St. Dennis and St. George: A Sketch of Three Civilisations (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915), by Ford Madox Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Book of France: In Aid of The French Parliamentary Committee's Fund for the Relief of the Invaded Departments (portions in English and French; London: Macmillan; Paris: E. Champion, 1915), ed. by Winifred Stephens Whale
- The Britannica Book of the War (New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colour-Blind Neutrality: An Open Letter to Doctor George Brandes (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916), by William Archer
- "Companionship in Arms": Speeches Delivered in London on April 12, 1917, by the Prime Minister of Great Britain, the United States Ambassador, Viscount Bryce, and Lord Robert Cecil, and in the House of Commons on April 18 by Mr. Bonar Law, Mr. Asquith, Mr. Dillon, and Mr. Wardle, to celebrate America's Adhesion to the Allies' Cause (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917), contrib. by David Lloyd George, Walter Hines Page, James Bryce, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Cecil of Chelwood, Andrew Bonar Law, H. H. Asquith, John Dillon, and Geo. J. Wardle (page images here at Penn)
- The Confessions of a Little Man During Great Days (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1917), by Leonid Andreyev, trans. by R. S. Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Creed of Deutschtum, and Other War Essays, Including The Psychology of the Kaiser (Boston: R. G. Badger, c1918), by Morton Prince (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Der Krieg und die Internationale (in German; ca. 1914), by Leon Trotsky (multiple formats at archive.org)
- "Deutschland Über Alles": Die Deutsche Gesinnung und der Krieg (in German; Paris: A. Colin, 1917), by Émile Durkheim, trans. by Jacques Hatt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Economic Reconstruction: Foreign and Domestic Investments (AEA presidential address extracted from the American Economic Review, 1918), by John R. Commons
- England or Germany? (New York: Wilmarth Press, 1915), by Frank Harris
- The Eyes of Asia (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1918), by Rudyard Kipling (Gutenberg text and page images)
- France-Humanité: Lettres à Une Normalienne (in French; Paris: Imp. I. Rirachovski, ca. 1918), by Ernest Lavisse (page images here at Penn)
- The German War (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
- "Germany Above All": German Mentality and War (Paris: A. Colin, 1915), by Émile Durkheim, trans. by J. S.
- Getting Together (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co.; Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917), by Ian Hay
- The Great War and its Lessons (New York: American Association for International Conciliation, 1914), by Nicholas Murray Butler (page images here at Penn)
- The Healing of Nations, and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife (1915), by Edward Carpenter (Gutenberg text)
- Homely Thoughts on the Great War: Its Development and Results (London: G. Lyal; Melbourne: M. L. Hutchinson, 1914), by John Coutts (page images here at Penn)
- How and Why a War Lord Wages War: An Open Letter to Neutrals (ca. 1914), by A Son of the Revolution (page images here at Penn)
- Il Figlio alla Guerra (in Italian; Milan: Fratelli Treves, 1917), by Anna Franchi
- International Socialism and the War (London: P. S. King and Co., 1915), by A. W. Humphrey (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Italy, France and Britain at War (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
- Justice in War-Time (Chicago and London: Open Court, 1916), by Bertrand Russell (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
- Kitchener in His Own Words (London: T. F. Unwin, c1917), by Lord Kitchener, ed. by James Bacon Rye and Horace George Groser (multiple formats at archive.org)
- La Paix Future d'Après la Révolution Française et Kant (in French; Paris: A. Colin, 1915), by F.-A. Aulard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- La Paix Future d'Après la Révolution Française et Kant (second edition, in French; Paris: A. Colin, 1915), by F.-A. Aulard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Labor and the War: American Federation of Labor and the Labor Movements of Europe and Latin America (Washington: American Federation of Labor, 1918), by American Federation of Labor (multiple formats at archive.org)
- "L'Allemagne au-Dessus de Tout": La Mentalité Allemande et la Guerre (in French; Paris: A. Colin, 1915), by Émile Durkheim (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Letters to an Old Garibaldian (London: Methuen and Co., c1915), by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Mass Meeting of the Friends of Peace at Madison Square Garden, New York, June 24, 1915 (New York: R. P. Sachs, c1915) (page images at Harvard)
- The New Europe (The Slav Standpoint) (1918), by T. G. Masaryk (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- One Hundred Per Cent American: Addresses Delivered by Famous Patriots of All Shades of Political Belief at the Saturday Luncheon Meetings of the Republican Club, New York, During the Year 1918 (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), ed. by Arnon Lyon Squiers, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Peace of Mind: Essays and Reflections, August 1914-September 1917 (London: A. Melrose, 1918) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Pendant la Guerre: Lettres Pastorales et Allocutions (Août 1914-Février 1915) (in French; Paris: Bloud et Gay, 1918), by Leon Adolphe Amette (page images here at Penn)
- The Ravings of a Renegade: Being the War Essays of Houston Stewart Chamberlain (London: Jarrold and Sons, ca. 1915), by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, trans. by Charles H. Clarke, contrib. by Lewis Melville
- The Real German View (Clearwater, FL: Press of Powell's Printery, 1915), by Eugene L. Pearce (page images at Harvard)
- The Real German View: Chapter II (Clearwater, FL: Press of The Evening Sun, 1918), by Eugene L. Pearce (page images here at Penn)
- The Soul of Russia (London: Macmillan and Co., 1916), ed. by Winifred Stephens Whale
- "Speaking of Prussians--" (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1917), by Irvin S. Cobb (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Student in Arms (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1917), by Donald Hankey (illustrated HTML at BYU)
- The Two Maps of Europe, and Some Other Aspects of the Great War (London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1915), by Hilaire Belloc
- Vox Clamantis: Essays on the War and Other Subjects (Beijing, 1917), by Gu Hongming
- The War and Democracy (London: Macmillan and Co., 1915), by R. W. Seton-Watson, John Dover Wilson, Alfred Zimmern, and Arthur Greenwood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The War and Democracy (1915), by R. W. Seton-Watson, John Dover Wilson, Alfred Zimmern, and Arthur Greenwood (Gutenberg text)
- The War and the Trend of National Vitality (New York: Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, 1917), by Elmer Ellsworth Rittenhouse (page images here at Penn)
- War Articles and Notes (1915), by Annie Besant (HTML at anandgholap.net)
- The War That Will End War (London: F. and C. Palmer, 1914), by H. G. Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The War That Will End War (New York: Duffield and Co., 1914), by H. G. Wells
- What Germany Thinks: or, The War As Germans See It (1915), by Thomas F. A. Smith (Gutenberg text)
- What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War (1916), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
- Why Britain is in the War and What She Hopes From the Future (1916), by Viscount Edward Grey of Fallodon (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Why We Are at War: Great Britain's Case, by Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History (second edition, 1914), by Ernest Barker, H. W. Carless Davis, C. R. L. Fletcher, Arthur Hassall, L. G. Wickham Legg, and F. Morgan (Gutenberg text)
- The Winning of the War: A Sequel to "Pan-Germanism" (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1918), by Roland G. Usher
- The World War: How it Looks to the Nations Involved, and What it Means to Us (New York: Macmillan, 1915), by Elbert F. Baldwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Wrack of the Storm (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1916), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
- The Day of Glory (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1919), by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Geography of the Great War (New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Frank M. McMurry (illustrated HTML at rootsweb.com)
- Handbook of War Facts and Peace Problems (1919), by Arthur L. Frothingham (illustrated HTML at BYU)
- Italy and the Jugo-Slavs in Istria and Dalmatia (Philadelphia: J. Bruno, 1919), by T.D.M. (page images here at Penn)
- Les Cinq Sources de la Victoire (in French; Paris and Brussels: G. Van Oest et cie, 1919), by Joseph Reinach (page images here at Penn)
- My "Little Bit" (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1919), by Marie Corelli (multiple formats at archive.org)
- On the Threshold of the Spiritual World: A Study of Life and Death Over There (New York: G. Sully and Co., c1919), by Horatio W. Dresser (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Remaking of a Mind: A Soldier's Thoughts on War and Reconstruction (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919), by Hendrik de Man (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The World War: Utterances Concerning Its Issues and Conduct, by Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (New York: Academy of Arts and Letters, 1919), by American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Nová Evropa: Stanovisko Slovanské (in Czech; Prague: Nákl. G. Dubského, 1920), by T. G. Masaryk
- Reflections on the World War ("Part I"; only part published; 1920), by Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, trans. by George Young (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Wrack of the Storm (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1920), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Challenge of the Dead: A Vision of the War and the Life of the Common Soldier in France, Seen Two Years Afterwards Between August and November, 1920 (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1921), by Stephen Graham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Gegen den Strom; Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1914-1916 (in German; 1921), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev and Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, trans. by Frida Rubiner (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Days to Remember: The British Empire in the Great War (London et al: T. Nelson and Sons, c1922), by John Buchan and Henry John Newbolt
- A History of the Great War (4 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1923), by John Buchan
- The World Crisis, 1915 (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1923), by Winston Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
- 1789 und 1914: Die Symbolischen Jahre in der Geschichte des Politischen Geistes (in German; Berlin: J. Springer, 1916), by Johann Plenge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Battle of Dorking (with a contextual introduction; London: G. Richards, 1914), by George Tomkyns Chesney, contrib. by G. H. Powell
- The Book of the Homeless (Le Livre des Sans-Foyer) (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), ed. by Edith Wharton, contrib. by Maurice Barrès, Sarah Bernhardt, Laurence Binyon, Paul Bourget, Rupert Brooke, Paul Claudel, Jean Cocteau, Joseph Conrad, Vincent d' Indy, Eleonora Duse, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, Robert Grant, Thomas Hardy, Paul Hervieu, William Dean Howells, Georges Louis Humbert, Henry James, Francis Jammes, Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre, Maurice Maeterlinck, Edward Sandford Martin, Alice Meynell, Paul Elmer More, Anna de Noailles, Josephine Preston Peabody, Lilla Cabot Perry, Agnes Repplier, Henri de Régnier, Theodore Roosevelt, Edmond Rostand, George Santayana, Igor Stravinsky, André Suarès, Edith Matilda Thomas, Herbert Trench, Emile Verhaeren, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Barrett Wendell, Margaret L. Woods, and W. B. Yeats, illust. by Léon Bakst, Max Beerbohm, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Edwin Howland Blashfield, Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat, Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, Walter Gay, Jean Léon Gérôme, Charles Dana Gibson, E. René Ménard, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Théo van Rysselberghe, and John Singer Sargent
- The English Spirit: Extract from a Letter to a Neutral (London: Darling and Son, 1916), by Englishman (page images here at Penn)
- The Foreign Policy of Sir Edward Grey, 1906-1915 (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1915), by Gilbert Murray (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Game of Empires; A Warning to America (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1915), by Edward S. Van Zile, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt
- A Journey Through France in War Time (Cleveland: The Penton press, 1917), by Joseph G. Butler (page images at Gallica)
- Kitchener in His Own Words (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1917), by Lord Kitchener, ed. by James Bacon Rye and Horace George Groser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Marxismus, Krieg und Internationale: Kritische Studien uber Offene Probleme des Wissenschaftlichen und des Praktischen Sozialismus in und Nach dem Weltkrieg (in German; Stuttgart: J.H.W. Dietz, 1918), by Karl Renner (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Must We Arm? A Debate on the Question: Resolved, That the Security of the Nation Requires an Increase of the Military Force of the United States (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1915), by Augustus Peabody Gardner and Morris Hillquit (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Plain Issues of the War (Loyalty Leaflet #5; Washington: Committee on Public Information, ca. 1917), by Elihu Root (page images here at Penn)
- The Policy of the International: A Speech of and an Interview With the Secretary of the International (London: Allen and Unwin, c1916), by Camille Huysmans, trans. by Fred H. Gorle
- Political and Literary Essays, Third Series (London: Macmillan and Co., 1916), by Evelyn Baring Cromer
- The Political Conditions of Allied Success: A Plea for the Protective Union of the Democracies (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1918), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Socialists and the War: A Documentary Statement of the Position of the Socialists of All Countries, With Special Reference to Their Peace Policy (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1915), ed. by William English Walling (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ways to Lasting Peace (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1916), by David Starr Jordan (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Otter Tail County, Minnesota, in the World War (Fergus Falls, MN: Lundeen Pub. Co., 1919), by Victor George Lundeen (page images at HathiTrust)
- These Eventful Years: The Twentieth Century in the Making, As Told by Many of its Makers, Being the Dramatic Story of All That Has Happened Throughout The World During the Most Momentous Period in All History (2 volumes; London and New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, c1924), ed. by Franklin Henry Hooper
- Oberlin: The War Years (1940), by Albert Rees and Francis Warren Blodgett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Twenty-Five Years, 1892-1916 (2 volumes; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1925), by Viscount Edward Grey of Fallodon (page images at HathiTrust)
- America's War for Humanity: Pictorial History of the World War for Liberty, by Thomas Herbert Russell, contrib. by John J. Pershing, J. Martin Miller, and William Dunseath Eaton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Appetite of Tyranny, Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian, by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text)
- England and the War, by Walter Raleigh (Gutenberg text)
- The Glory of the Trenches: An Interpretation, by Coningsby Dawson (Gutenberg text)
- Never Again: A Protest and a Warning Addressed to the Peoples of Europe, by Edward Carpenter (Gutenberg text)
- The Pentecost of Calamity, by Owen Wister (PDF at djm.cc)
- Private Dowding: The Personal Story of a Soldier Killed in Battle (1966 edition), by W. Tudor-Pole (HTML at bahai-library.org)
- A Short History of the Great War, by A. F. Pollard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War, by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
- Why We Are at War: Messages to Congress, January to April, 1917, by Woodrow Wilson
- The Dangers of Half-Preparedness: A Plea for a Declaration of American Policy (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Free Man and the Soldier: Essays on the Reconciliation of Liberty and Discipline (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1916), by Ralph Barton Perry
- Nerves and the War (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1918), by Annie Payson Call
- Sovereigns and Statesmen of Europe (New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1916), by Catherine Radziwill
- Weltkrieg und Aberglaube: Erlebtes und Erlauschtes (in German; Leipzig: W. Heims, 1916), by Albert Hellwig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- What Could Germany Do For Ireland? (New York: Wolfe Tone Co., 1916), by James K. McGuire, contrib. by Thomas Addis Emmet
- The Collapse of the Second International (Glasgow: Socialist Labour Press, ca. 1920), by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, trans. by A. Sirnis (PDF at flvc.org)
- Ereignisse und Gestalten aus den Jahren 1878-1918 (in German; Leipzig and Berlin: K.F. Koehler, 1922), by German Emperor William II
- The Kaiser's Memoirs (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1922), by German Emperor William II, trans. by T. R. Ybarra
- My Memoirs: 1878-1918 (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1922), by German Emperor William II (page images at HathiTrust)
- America and the World War (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1915), by Theodore Roosevelt
- Chapters from My Diary (Boston: Revolutionary Age, ca. 1918), by Leon Trotsky (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Crimes of England (1916), by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text)
- The Crimes of England (New York: J. Lane Co., 1916), by G. K. Chesterton
- The General Strike; The Last War; The Deadly Parallel, by Big Bill Haywood (PDF at wa.gov)
- The Next of Kin, Those Who Wait and Wonder, by Nellie L. McClung (Gutenberg text)
- Now It Can Be Told, by Philip Gibbs (Gutenberg text)
- The U. S. Marines in Rhyme, Prose, and Cartoon (third edition, special; New York: U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Publicity Bureau, ca. 1915), by United States Marine Corps (page images here at Penn)
- E. D. Morel: The Man and His Work (London: Allen and Unwin, 1920), by F. Seymour Cocks
- Women as Army Surgeons: Being the History of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street, September 1914-October 1919, by Flora Murray (page images at Drexel)
More items available under narrower terms.