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Chad Williams is the author of Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era. He talked about the post-war activism of these soldiers, explaining how after figh…

Harvard Professor Erez Manela talked about how Woodrow Wilson’s American upbringing and education shaped his outlook on foreign policy as president, particularly his vision for the League of…

Yiğit Akin is the author of When the War Came Home: The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire. He discussed his book, which looks at the impact of World War I on ordinary Otto…

Historian Nancy Bristow talked about the 1918 influenza pandemic and how it devastated American civilians and soldiers during the final year of World War I and beyond. She also explained why…

World War I scholar and author James Carl Nelson discussed his book, The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America’s Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918 to 1919. In August of 1918, about 5…

Military historian and retired naval commander John Kuehn gave a talk titled, “From the Barents to the Black Sea: U.S. Naval Activities in Post-Great War Europe, 1918-1921.” U.S. Army Comman…

University of Kansas Professor Nathan Wood looked at the state of Eastern European countries in the aftermath of World War I and following the collapse of the German, Austro-Hungarian, and R…

World War I scholar Tammy Proctor gave an illustrated talk titled: “The Myth of Isolation: American Intervention in Postwar Europe, 1919 - 1924.” This presentation was part of the National W…

Geoff Ward talked about the legacies of racial violence in America, particularly during the Jim Crow era. He is a professor of African and African American Studies at Washington University i…