During WWI, the American Library Association provided millions of books and magazines to soldiers in training camps and serving overseas. Reenactors/librarians Erin Kinnee and Lawrence Ostrowski share the way this service became a precursor to many library services today.

This program is 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.