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Great War Lecture Series: World War I Voices and Veterans Roundtable

Thursday, March 30, 2017 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
ASU’s Department of History will present the third spring 2017 installment of its Great War Centennial Commemoration Lecture Series on Thursday, March 30, at the Stephens Central Library, 33 W. Beauregard Ave. in downtown San Angelo.

Titled “World War I Voices and Veterans Roundtable,” the event will begin at 7 p.m. and is open free to the public. 

Under the direction of the ASU Department of Visual and Performing Arts, student and veteran volunteers will perform dramatic readings of World War I Era accounts. Invited veterans from more recent conflicts will then discuss those century-old sentiments, along with several topics pertaining to military service. 

The final spring 2017 installment of the Great War Centennial Commemoration Lecture Series will take place in April: 

  • 7 p.m. Thursday, April 20, Fort Concho: “Texas’s Ethnic Minorities During World War I.” Dr. Charles Grear, professor of history at Central Texas College, and Dr. Alex Mendoza, associate professor of history at the University of North Texas, will discuss the challenges faced by German-Americans and Mexican-Americans on the home front as the U.S. waged WWI. 

The fall 2017 schedule of events for the lecture series will be announced at a later date.

 

This program is part of World War I and America, a two-year national initiative of Library of America presented in partnership with The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the National World War I Museum and Memorial, and other organizations, with generous support from The National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Location

Sugg Community Room (3rd floor), Stephens Central Library (33 W. Beauregard Ave., San Angelo, TX)