Jan Meisels Allen - NEW ONLINE EXHIBITION: The Volunteers: Americans Join World War 1

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From: Jan Meisels Allen <janmallen@att.net>
To: IAJGS Leadership Forum <leadership@iajgs.org>
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:54:36 -0700
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] (US) New Online Exhibition: The Volunteers: Americans Join World War l

                                                                                                                                                            

The US World War I Centennial  Commission has a new online exhibition: The Volunteers: Americans Join World War l created by the National WWI Museum and Memorial and American Field Service Intercultural Program. The exhibit  examines the stories of the young American men and women who transformed volunteerism in World War l. The volunteers engaged in the war before the United States entered the conflict. Americans served as volunteers in a variety of civilian and military organizations.  The online exhibition can be found at: http://exhibitions.theworldwar.org/volunteers/#!/

The National World War l Museum and Memorial is located in Kansas City, Missouri. Their website includes online databases and to search digital records in their global collection that began in 1920.  To look at their images go to: https://theworldwar.pastperfectonline.com/randomimages. Please read their introduction  and that images may be protected by copyright or other restrictions. See: https://www.theworldwar.org/explore/online-collections-database

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee