Great War Lecture Series: Texas’s Ethnic Minorities During World War I
Thursday, April 20, 2017
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8:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public
Profs. Charles Grear (Central Texas College) and Alexander Mendoza (University of North Texas) will discuss the challenges that German Americans and Mexican Americans faced on the home front as the United States waged World War I. This talk corresponds with a traveling exhibit concerning home front life in the United States during World War I, which will be on display at Fort Concho during the month of April 2017.
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.