Committee on the History of the Participation of the University in WWI File, 1915-23 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Files of the Committee on the History of the Participation of the University in World War I, including correspondence, publications, reports, scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, index cards, transcripts and manuscript histories including President's Office files (1916-19), War Committee and subcommittee files (1917-19), and files of the Committee on the History of the Participation of the University in World War I (1920-21), School of Military Aeronautics records (1917-19), Students Army Training Corps records (1918-19), war publications (1917-21), card indexes of faculty and students and source material for and manuscript copies of George Chapin's 1158-page "The Military History of the University of Illinois, 1868-1923". The series includes a comprehensive record of war programs from pre-war military activities, departmental participation, negotiations with the War Department, military instruction programs, faculty contributions to war literature and the activities of specific military units composed of university personnel.