A recent visitor to the Center for the Study of war and Society revealed fascinating artifacts from the First World War. He brought an unique collection of letters and photographs of an American veteran of the First World War. Paul Harvey, who served in the United States Army during the conflict and in occupation in […]
Prof. Jordan Kuck, assistant professor of history at West Virginia Wesleyan College, a former graduate assistant at UTK’s Center for the Study of War and Society, and a graduate of UTK’s doctoral program in Modern European history, has been honored in a highly international way! Prof. Kuck was invited to contribute a chapter to the […]
Looking for a worthwhile way to spend some extra time online? The Torchbearer found six “rabbit holes” worth exploring through sites connected with The University of Tennessee. The Center for the Study of War & Society is pleased to say that our extensive World War II oral history collection was one of them. Over the […]
Last week Dr. Jesse Kauffman gave a lecture on “German Occupation and the Road to Polish Independence, 1915-1918”, if you would like to watch the lecture you can see the event in its entirety below. http://mediasite.utk.edu/UTK/Play/b410ac6271f941cbbe80c928270fa0c11d
“Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954” by Prof. George Liber (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Nov. 28, Monday, 4-5pm, in Hoskins Library, 2d Floor (outside the Center for the Study of War and Society). Join us for Prof. Liber’s lecture which discusses his newly published book, Total Wars and the Making of […]
WE INVITE YOU TO THE UPCOMING HISTORY LECTURE: “German Occupation and the Road to Polish Independence, 1915-1918” by Prof. Jesse Kauffman (Eastern Michigan University) on Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 5pm at the Linsday Young Auditorium in University of Tennessee Hodges Library on campus. In 1815, Poland was wiped off the map of Europe when […]
Please join us for a lecture by the Center Director, Prof. Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius as he presents a talk entitled, “No Quiet on the Eastern Front: German Occupation in Eastern Europe in World War I.” The lecture introduces a new exhibit on the First World War, entitled “World War I: A View from the Eastern […]
Dear Friends of the Center for the Study of War and Society, We start our eighth year of AfterWars events with a very timely presentation by Dr. Andrew White, Director of the UT Aerospace and Defense Business Institute in the Haslam College of Business, entitled “Reflections on 9/11: Wartime Military-Media Relations in the Information Age”. Drawing […]
Dear Friends of the Center for the Study of War and Society, This season marks the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland. On April 25 (Monday) at 4-5pm in the seminar space outside the Center for the Study of War and Society at Hoskins Library at UTK, Prof. Martin Griffin (Department of […]
Dear Tennessee Great War Commission and Friends, Here is news about a World War I event in Knoxville, a mini-exhibition at the McClung Museum on UT’s campus. The organizer of the exhibit, Robert Rennie, will give a brief gallery talk on the exhibit on April 6 at 1:30pm. Rennie is the McClung Museum Academic Programs […]