Webinar series on the Great War.

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The Library of Congress is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into the Great War with an online webinar series highlighting some of the Library's most remarkable World War I resources, including documents, photographs, maps, and personal stories collected through the Veterans History Project.

The series of 40-minute talks will present discussions on a variety of topics each month. After the series concludes, the Library will make recordings of all the sessions accessible to the public on the Echoes of the Great War online exhibition website.

The scheduled discussions include:

Over Here, Over There: Immigrant Veterans of World War I (2 p.m., Sept. 26). More than 120,000 veterans received citizenship as a direct consequence of military service and began a tradition of service-based naturalization. Liaison specialist Owen Rogers explores the intersection of immigration and World War I military service through materials collected by the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project.

Woodrow Wilson Chooses War (2 p.m., Oct. 24). Like many individuals around the globe, Pres. Wilson was shocked by the outbreak of a devastating world war among European empires in 1914. As president of the U.S., however, he had a unique opportunity to shape the outcome of this catastrophic conflict. Sahr Conway-Lanz of the Manuscripts...