World War I and America: Introduction

In this guide, you will find information about the World War I and America exhibit and programming  at the Nova Southeastern University Alvin Sherman Library.

This series of programs and exhibit  are part of World War I and America, a two-year national initiative of The Library of America presented in partnership with The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the National World War I Museum and Memorial, and other organizations, with generous support from The National Endowment for the Humanities.  

World War I and America Exhibit

April 1-23, NSU Alvin Sherman Library

Opening program: April 1:

World War I and America Reading and Discussion Group
A WW I centennial Reading and Discussion Group. Explore the War and its meaning through the words of those who lived it.

Join other interested in World War I to read excerpts of essays, speeches, poems, plays, fiction and nonfiction about  the war.  Register for the first  program by XX  to receive a copy of the first reader.

• March 21: Why Fight?: Reader 1 Register
• March 28: The Experience of War: Reader 2 Register
• April 4 : Race and WW I: Reader 3 Register
• April 11: American Women at War. Reader 4 Register
• April 18: The Home Front. Reader 5 Register
• April 25: America on the World Stage. Reader 6 Register
• May 2: Coming Home. Reader 7 Register

 World War I and America Lectures

• April: Genealogy, Nora Quinlan  Register
• April: Professor David Kilroy, NSU Register
• April: From Slavery to Freedom by Professor Michael Bernath, University of Miami Register
• April: Secession and Union by Professor Stephen D. Engle of Florida Atlantic University Register