The Great Courses company has just released a new course on DVD/CD/Download by our Center Director, Dr. Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius (this is his seventh course with the company. Others include WWI, diplomacy, dictatorship, espionage, turning points of modern world history, and explorers). The new course, “A History of Eastern Europe”, covers the Baltics to the […]
Our Director at the Center for the Study of War and Society was quoted in this new article about the OSS in World War II, on the occasion of Veteran’s Day. See more: http://news.investors.com/management-leaders-and-success/111015-780073-jack-taylor-was-wwii-special-operator.htm?p=full
Dear Friends of the Center for the Study of War and Society, The Director of our Center, Dr. Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, will be the featured professor in a LIVE CHAT on-line hosted by The Great Courses, which produces recorded lecture courses on DVD, CD, and download. They have produced six recorded lecture courses by Liulevicius, on topics […]
The Center for the Study of Tennesseans and War at the University of Tennessee would like to inform you that we have recently set up a Facebook page. It can be found at https://www.facebook.com/UniversityofTennesseeCSTW/info?tab=overview or by searching for The Center for the Study of Tennesseans and War on Facebook. We encourage all of you to like and share […]
Video of Dr. Lilly’s lecture (delivered in the lecture series on AfterWars for the Center for the Study of War and Society), “What Did They Die For?: Grave Markers from the Yugoslav Wars of Dissolution, 1945-1995” is now online. It can be accessed by visiting the Center’s YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/UTKCSWS
History doctoral student Josh Sander was awarded a Fulbright grant to Germany for next year. Josh is currently at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on a fellowship. His dissertation deals with Nazi plans for the occupied Netherlands. Josh’s win means that graduate students active with the Center for the Study of War and Society have […]
Join us for a lecture at University of Tennessee Knoxville next Monday, March 30, 2015, at 4pm (Haslam Business Bldg. Room 303), by Carol Lilly, Professor of History and Director of International Studies, University of Nebraska Kearney. The lecture is entitled “What Did They Die For?: Grave Markers from the Wars of Yugoslav Dissolution in Serbia, Croatia, […]
One of our graduate student assistants at the Center for the Study of War and Society, Alison Vick, was just awarded a research grant by the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University. There, she will conduct archival research on her doctoral dissertation, which deals with German POW camps in both world wars and the history […]
A video of this year’s annual Johnson Lecture, which honors the Center’s founder Charles Johnson, is now online. The lecture was given by Dr. Robert Nelson (University of Windsor) on the subject of World War I trench newspapers. The video can be accessed by visiting the Center’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/user/UTKCSWS
On January 22 (Thursday). Prof. Robert Nelson of the University of Windsor, Canada, will present a lecture entitled : “Trenches, Women, Jokes, and the Enemy: German, British, and French Soldier Newspapers during the First World War”. The lecture will be held at 4pm on Jan. 22 (Thursday) in UT’s Haslam Business Building, Room 303. The […]