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Last Updated: Apr 04, 2022 | Topics: About the Library of CongressCollectionsUsing the Library (Offsite)| Views: 158 In what way did women contribute to the military or combat in WWII and prior to WWII? In what way did women contribute to the military or combat in WWII and prior to WWII? Last Updated: Apr 16, 2021 | Topics: Research| Views: 115 National Book Festival Links The pre-recorded/on-demand videos can be found in three places: National Book Festival website: https://www.loc.gov/events/2020-national-book-festival/schedule/video-on-demand/ Library of Congress Event Videos https://www.loc.gov/collections/event-videos/ This collection contains National Book Festival videos and other presentations from the Library of Congress. Search by presenter name or keyword. Browse only the 2020 Festival videos in this interface, starting here: https://www.loc.gov/collections/event-videos/?dates=2020/2029&q=%22national+book+festival%22 Note: The videos may be saved from this location for later play offline. Library of Congress YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryOfCongress Note: be sure to use the search option inside the channel, rather than the one for all of YouTube. In the laptop/desktop interface, this is next to "ABOUT" and just above the video window. Live Q&A: Not every NBF presenter in 2020 had a live Q&A session. For one who did, find a link on the presenter’s biography page to a recording. The biography pages are linked from here: https://www.loc.gov/events/2020-national-book-festival/authors/ . Other 2020 National Book Festival-related videos, including the PBS television special are listed and linked here: https://www.pbs.org/show/library-congress-national-book-festival/ . 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