Resources and Downloads

Downloads

• Design Competition Manual Download
• Pershing Park Photo Study with over 100 downloadable images presenting the current site
• Pershing Park As Built References including copies of the 1980 design and construction drawings of the site as it was built
• Pennsylvania Ave. 2007 National Register nomination
• Pershing Park Site Plan
• Pershing Park Traffic Diagram
• Selected World War I Memorials  existing memorials from around the states and some overseas

Most sections with many images have a composite file so you can download the whole section in a single .zip file. Please check the "detail" button to see how large the file is before you download if you have a slow connection. Some of the files are large.

 Related Links and references

For further information on the role of the United States in World War I, participants may wish to review one or more of the following sources:

• Edward M. Coffman, The War to End All Wars: The American Experience in World War I
• John S. D. Eisenhower, Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I
• Jennifer Keene, Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America
• David M. Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society
• David M. Lubin, Flags and Faces: The Visual Culture of America's First World War
• Richard Rubin, The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
• Laurence Stallings, The Doughboys: The Story of the AEF
• http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/dbc2.htm

For further information on the commemoration of World War I in the United States and elsewhere, participants may wish to review one or more of the following sources:

• Lisa Budreau, Bodies of War: World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America, 1919-1933
• George L. Mosse, Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars
• G. Kurt Piehler, Remembering War the American Way
• Mark A. Snell (ed.), Unknown Soldiers: The American Expeditionary Forces in Memory & Remembrance
• Steven Trout, On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance
• Jennifer Wingate, Sculpting Doughboys: Memory, Gender, and Taste in America's World War I Memorials
• Jay Winter, Sites of Mourning, Sites of Memory: The Great War in European Cultural History
• Commemoration and Remembrance (USA), in 1914-1918-online, International Encyclopedia of the First World War: http://dx.doi.org/10.15463/ie1418.10314
• http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries-memorials
• http://wwi-inventory.org/

 

Pershing Park site diagram