World War II Series

World War II: Experience and Legacy commemorates the ending of the Second World War and explores the long-term impact of that conflict. The series began in 2020 to mark the 75^th anniversary of the ending of the war.

Expert presenters cover a variety of topics, including efforts to find the remains of a lost Marine patrol on Guadalcanal, changes to nursing during the war, baseball during the war years, wartime Soviet songs, J.D. Salinger's war and the impact on his writing, codebreaking, remembrances of the Holocaust, cartoons go to war and more.

Many of the talks are available below and more will be added

• Suzanne Ament, Sing to Victory:  Song in Soviet Society during World War II
• Rhett Herman, An Archaeological and Geophysical Expedition to Guadalcanal.     
• Sarah Gilbert and Samuel Lee, Women on the Battlefield: Nurses in World War II.
• Patricia Heberer-Rice,"Scientific Racism:  The History of Eugenics in Nazi Germany and the United States" Q&A Session with Patricia Herberer-Rice from United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
• Jennifer Hedges with Moira Baker, J. D. Salinger, War Trauma, and Fiction.
• Johnny Moore, "Keep Baseball Going":  The National Pastime during World War II
• Sept. 30 Michael Meindl, Animating World War II: Animation on the Home Front and Beyond
• Neil Sigmon, Breaking Enigma:  The Bletchley Park Codebreakers and the Turing Bombe
• Neil Sigmon,  Navajo Code of World War II
• Mike Montgomery,  German Perspectives on VE Day
• Roann Barris, From the Holocaust to Now: Visual Narratives of Trauma
• Tom Snediker, Life During Wartime: Jazz Music in Occupied Paris
• Sandy French, Germany's Memory Problem -- The Memorial ot the Murdered Jews of Europe
• Arye Ephrath, Amazing Grace: My Holocaust Story
• Adam Bennett, Powder, People and Politics: the Radford Ordnance Works and the New River Valley
• Becky Brackin, John O'Connor, and Amy VanKirk, Impact on Next Generations
• Vesna Costello, Arye Ephrath, and Anne Prucha, The Holocaust: Legacies.

This series was sponsored and organized by the Department of History, the College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences and McConnell Library.

For more information, please contact, Suzanne Ament or Matthew Oyos at 540-831-5147.

_{*(The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement.)}