--- title: World War I History: Artifacts From the Library of Congress description: See a preview of some of the images that are used to tell the story of World War I in a new book from the Library of Congress. canonical: https://time.com/4731533/america-great-war-book/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-30T14:00:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T09:43:08.000Z article:section: History og:title: The Library of Congress Is Using These Images to Tell the Story of World War I og:description: A new book from the Library of Congress tells the story of the U.S. in World War I og:url: https://time.com/4731533/america-great-war-book/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2756973839124548/6988c1f2dcd4a11ae107532c/170407-loc-great-war-08.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: America and the Great War og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Library of Congress Is Using These Images to Tell the Story of World War I twitter:description: A new book from the Library of Congress tells the story of the U.S. in World War I twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2756973839124548/6988c1f2dcd4a11ae107532c/170407-loc-great-war-08.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Library of Congress Is Using These Images to Tell the Story of World War I > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/) and [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) Updated: Dec 13, 2023 9:43 AM UTCPublished: May 30, 2017 2:00 PM UTC  Hand-colored lithograph by an unknown artist created ca. 1915. Hand-colored lithograph by an unknown artist created ca. 1915. Library of Congress by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/) and [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) Updated: Dec 13, 2023 9:43 AM UTCPublished: May 30, 2017 2:00 PM UTC When the United States entered World War I [100 years ago this spring](http://time.com/4717078/america-wwi-history-video/) — a decision made when it seemed there was[ no other choice](https://time.com/4673502/zimmermann-telegram-100/) left — changed the [course of the war](http://time.com/4718767/american-troops-wwi-excerpt/), and the trajectory of American history. So it’s no surprise that people all over the world expressed their complicated feelings about that turning point in a wide variety of visual formats, from newspaper cartoons to fine art. Seen above are just a few of the many such artifacts from the collection of the Library of Congress that, through combined firsthand accounts and arguments from the time, the library is using to tell the story of that time, in the new book by Margaret E. Wagner, [_America and the Great War: A Library of Congress Illustrated History_](https://www.amazon.com/America-Great-War-Congress-Illustrated/dp/1620409828?tag=timecom-20), a companion to an exhibition there. It was, as Stanford’s David M. Kennedy notes in the introduction to the book, a “dramatic and convulsive” moment in American history, and one that left an extensive record of artifacts that conveyed that tumult. Kennedy writes that many Americans opposed the idea of going to war — no surprise, given the campaign in support of neutrality that had been waged by Wilson’s administration for years. And yet, once the U.S. was in the fight, citizens took to the patriotic cause “lustily,” buying war bonds, singing war songs, mobilizing industry and even going so far as to rename anything that might carry a whiff of support for the German cause. (Sauerkraut, for example, became “liberty cabbage.”) The companion exhibition, [_Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I,_ ](https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/world-war-i-american-experiences/about-this-exhibition)will be on view at the Library of Congress through January 2019.  Cartoon of U.S. student happy that war has stranded teachers in Europe. Library of Congress  Thank you letters written to the U.S. from Belgian students and teachers. Library of Congress  Color cover of De Nieuwe Amsterdammer magazine — showing Wilson confronting the Kaiser. Library of Congress  A cartoon by William Allen Rogers, published in the New York Herald on March 24, 1916. Library of Congress  Washington Time "Keep Cool" peace ad from April 1917. Library of Congress  Color chart of "Amis — Ennemis." Library of Congress  Steinlen etching: La nuit a Souchez. Library of Congress  Hand-colored lithograph by an unknown artist created ca. 1915. Library of Congress  Cartoon by William Allen Rogers published by the New York Herald celebrating Uncle Sam's expanded authority. Library of Congress  Color print by William de Leftwich Dodge, "Signing of the Peace Treaty at Versailles." 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