An exhibit, Voices of the Great War, will be on display in the University of South Carolina's Thomas Cooper Library through September 30.

This exhibit has been mounted for the 90th anniversary of the U.S. declaration of war on Germany and the Central Powers in 1917. It focuses on the literary response to the war and provides the opportunity to display some recent gifts and acquisitions not included in the library's previous exhibitions on Great War topics.

The exhibition is arranged chronologically, under the following topics:

• Ancestral Voices: the literary heritage of war
• Eager Voices: Rupert Brooke, Charles Hamilton Sorley, and others
• Subaltern Voices: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves
• Echoing Voices: McCrae's "In Flanders Fields" and Alan Seegers' "Rendezvous"
• Voices from the Ranks: Henri Barbusse, Frederic Manning, and others
• Isaac Rosenberg: from the Joseph Cohen Collection
• Voices of Dissent: Clifford Allen, Bertrand Russell, and others
• Some Women's Voices:Vera Brittain, "Helen Zenna Smith," Rebecca West
• The Samuel Bloom World War I Archive
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Some Post-War Voices: Erich Maria Remarque, Ernest Hemingway, and others.

Materials on display have been drawn from Thomas Cooper Library's Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection, the Joseph Cohen Collection of World War I Literature, the Samuel Bloom World War I Archive, and the Allen of Hurtwood papers.

This is one of several exhibits about South Carolina during World War I which are being presented in Columbia under the sponsorship of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Other exhibit locations include McKissick Museum, the South Caroliniana Library, the South Carolina State Museum, and the Confederate Relic Room. A number of items from Thomas Cooper Library's Great War collections have been loaned for these displays.

Versions of previous World War I exhibits including Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection, Posters of the Great War, Songs of the Great War, Introducing the Joseph Cohen Collection, and Military Aviation from the Gilbert S. Guinn Collection are available on the Web at www.sc.edu/library/speccoll.

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