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 […]
Consider the powerful images conjured up by the words “apocalypse” and “end times”! We begin our fall semester activities with a provocative and fascinating roundtable discussion with three scholars on the topic of Apocalypticism in Twentieth-Century Germany. Prof. Michael Meng of Clemson University will discuss the philosopher Carl Schmitt’s politics of violence. Prof. Monica Black of […]
The Director of the Center for the Study of War and Society, Dr. Vejas Liulevicius and Center Fellow Dr. Ernest Freeberg were featured this week in the Chattanooga Times Free Press. The article, entitled “Great War now a faded memory in Chattanooga area” discusses the reasons why the recent one hundredth anniversary of the start […]
One of our Fellows at the Center for the Study of War and Society was featured in this past weekend’s Wall Street Journal column, “Five Best”, which usually has a prominent historian or writer suggesting personal choices for the best reading on a particular subject. Dr. John McManus, professor at Missouri University of Science […]
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 […]
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 March 20, 2013, Rob Simbeck, an award-winning author who has written for numerous periodicals, including The Washington Post and Rolling Stone, delivered the Center’s 2013 Johnson Lecture. In his talk, titled “Tennessee’s Cornelia Fort, Pearl Harbor, and the Female Pilots of World War II,” he recounted the story of Tennessee’s own Cornelia Fort, the […]