Articles and Book Chapters

• Byerly, Ross, Kim Nelson, Desiree Clark, Meredith Tinney, and Keziah Low
  “The Great Humanitarian: Herbert Hoover’s Food Relief Efforts.”
  An overview of Hoover’s efforts to help European countries during and after World War I.

• Little, Branden
  “An Explosion of New Endeavors: Global Humanitarian Responses to Industrialized Warfare in the First World War Era,” First World War Studies 5, no. 1
  (March 2014): 1-16

• Little, Branden
  “Humanitarian Relief in Europe and the Analogue of War, 1914-1918,” in Finding Common Ground: New Directions in First World War Studies
  Jennifer Keene and Michael Neiberg, eds. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010), 139-58

• Nash, George
  “Herbert Hoover and Belgian Relief in World War.”
  National Archives
  An article by George H. Nash about Hoover and the Commission for Relief in Belgium.

• De Schaepdrijver, Sophie
  “A Civilian War Effort: the Comité National de Secours et d’Alimentation in Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918,” in Remembering Herbert Hoover and the Commission for Relief in Belgium: Proceedings of the seminar held at the University Foundation on October 4, 2006
  (Brussels, Fondation Universitaire, 2007), 24-37

Lesson Plan

• AFS USA, “Examining Humanitarianism” lesson plan

Primary Sources

• World Digital Library, War Relief Posters
  World War I posters from the Library of Congress depicting messages for relief needs in many European countries.

• The Morgan Library & Museum, “Anne Morgan’s War: Rebuilding Devastated France, 1917-1924.”
  Online exhibition
  Film, photographs, radio broadcasts, letters, and diaries about the postwar rebuilding efforts in France.

Maps

• Food and War, from Food Guide for War Service at Home, 1918
  Historical map showing famine and food shortages during World War I.

Books

• Cabanes, Bruno
  The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918-1924
  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014

• Nash, George
  The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Humanitarian, 1914-1917 (Life of Herbert Hoover 2)
  New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1988

• Hansen, Arlen J.
  Gentlemen Volunteers: The Story of American Ambulance Drivers in the Great War, August 1914-September 1918
  New York: Arcade Publishing, 1996

• Irwin, Julia
  Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening
  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013