On Thursday, April 17, 2014, Dr. Peter Way of the University of Windsor, Canada, gave a guest talk at the University of Tennessee titled “Artisans of War: Common Soldiers and the Making of Britain’s Atlantic Empire in the Seven Years’ War.” Below is a multi-part recording of Dr. Way’s talk.
Dear Friends of the Center, On Thurs., April 17, at 3:30pm in the Haslam Business Building Room 202, on the UT campus, Dr. Peter Way, Professor of History at the University of Windsor, Canada, will speak on “Artisans of War: Common Soldiers and the Making of Britain’s Atlantic Empire in the Seven Years War”. You […]
Dear Friends of CSTW, A history graduate student active in the Center’s programs, Josh Sander, just learned some great news. He has been awarded a 2014-15 Norman Raab Foundation Fellowship at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, for work on his dissertation project, “The Greater Germanic Reich: Nazification and the Creation […]
On Monday, April 7, Dr. Janis Chakars of Gwynedd Mercy University will give a guest talk titled “Merry Christmas! Our Homeland is Ablaze!: Latvian Refugee Experiences and a Book for Kids in World War II.” The talk, which is sponsored by the Center for the Study of War and Society and the Department of History […]
UT Forum on the Ukrainian Crisis and Russian Expansionism, Tues., April 8, 2014, 5:00 p.m., Hodges Library Auditorium. Recent events in Ukraine and Russia stand to change the landscape of American international relations for years or decades to come. Not only has Russia annexed Crimea, but it has embarked on a crackdown on the opposition […]
Dr. Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Director of the Center, was recently interviewed for a podcast about the Crimea and Ukraine Crisis and its historical background by The Great Courses. One can listen to the podcast here: http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/Courses/PodcastEpisode.aspx?eid=10&ICMP=98617
Dear Friends of the Center for the Study of War and Society, We are co-sponsoring an exciting upcoming lecture hosted by the UT Center for Jacksonian America on Feb. 27. Please see information in the press release below. The event is free and open to the public! Sincerely, V. Liulevicius, Director, UT Center […]
On February 4, 2013, UT issued a press release about the NHPRC grant and estate gift that UT’s Center for the Study of Tennesseans and War recently received.
On Thursday, January 16, Dr. Warren Dockter delivered the Center for the Study of War and Society’s 15th Annual Johnson Lecture. His talk, which took place at the University Center Crest Room on the UT campus, was entitled, “‘The Weight of Islam’: Winston Churchill, the Ottoman Empire and the First World War.” Dr. Warren Dockter […]
The Center for the Study of War & Society’s materials on Exercise Tiger were highlighted in the most recent issue of Tennessee Alumnus.