{"id":2479,"date":"2017-09-06T22:05:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T22:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2017-09-07T15:29:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T15:29:04","slug":"world-war-i-and-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/2017\/09\/06\/world-war-i-and-arkansas\/","title":{"rendered":"World War I and Arkansas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark your calendars this week for a special presentation as part of the World War I centennial exhibit.\u00a0 On Thursday, Sept. 7th, Dr. Buck Foster from the Arkansas Department of Heritage will give a presentation entitled, \u201cWorld War I and Arkansas.\u201d \u00a0Join us at 7:00 P.M. \u00a0in the Ross Pendergraft Library and Technology Center, room 300 south, for this special program in Arkansas and world history.\u00a0 The entire community is invited.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the first floor of the library has been dedicated to a traveling exhibition featuring panels that illustrate the historic events of 100 years ago.\u00a0 The program is funded by a grant through the Library of America in support of educational programming about World War I.\u00a0 Arkansas Tech University received the only such grant for the entire state of Arkansas. \u00a0The panels will be available here until Sept. 25th.<\/p>\n

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In addition to the panels, a local collector, Lee Fields, has loaned his collection of World War I memorabilia for our display cases, including weapons, books, bayonets, and even the iconic dough-boy helmet worn by U.S. soldiers during the war.<\/p>\n

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Stay tuned for future events throughout the month of September, October, and November to celebrate the Centennial of World War 1.\u00a0 You can read the full schedule here<\/a><\/strong> or follow us on Facebook<\/a><\/strong> or Twitter<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 For more information about the World War I speakers and events, contact Luke Heffley at (479) 964-0546 or lheffley@atu.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark your calendars this week for a special presentation as part of the World War I centennial exhibit.\u00a0 On Thursday, Sept. 7th, Dr. Buck Foster from the Arkansas Department of Heritage will give a presentation entitled, \u201cWorld War I and Arkansas.\u201d \u00a0Join us at 7:00 P.M. \u00a0in the Ross Pendergraft Library and Technology Center, room […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,31],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","tag-news","tag-presentations","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3lPyb-DZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}