Graduate students active in the programs of the Center for the Study of War and Society continue to set new records! In March 2015, TWO of them made the New York Times. First, Robert Glaze (Doctoral student in US History, working on the Civil War) had a piece published in the New York Times online Disunion series: You […]
On Thursday, December 4, at 4 p.m., Dr. Stephen Fritz will deliver a talk titled: The Convulsions of Defeat: World War One and Hitler’s Ideology. The presentation will be held in the University of Tennessee’s Humanities Center, Melrose Hall, Room E 102. Dr. Fritz is a professor of modern European history at East Tennessee State […]
Dear Friends of CSWS, 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 […]
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 […]
Dear Friends of the UT Center for the Study of War and Society, We write to share good news about successes by our graduate students. Josh Sander, doctoral student in German history, has just learned that he has been awarded a spot in the German Historical Institute’s Summer Seminar in Germany. This summer program will […]
On February 4, 2013, UT issued a press release about the NHPRC grant and estate gift that UT’s Center for the Study of War and Society recently received.
Jordan Kuck, a graduate assistant at CSWS, has an article appearing in the most recent issue of Fascism: The Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies. The article examines the lesser-known authoritarian regime of Karlis Ulmanis, the dictator of Latvia from 1934-1940, including an interesting take on the Latvian version of American 4-H.