Tag: WWI

Undergraduate Matt Culver Creates WWI Exhibit at Warner Transportation Museum

December 12, 2017

Undergraduate Matt Culver’s exhibit “Lafayette, We Are Here! America Enters the First World War” is currently on display at the Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum in Tuscaloosa. Matt Culver is a senior History/Computer Science double major, and has been involved with a group of students working on two World War I exhibits on campus in remembrance of the war’s centennial. The exhibit currently on display at the Transportation Museum focuses specifically on students and Alabamians in the War, “their stories […]

Symposium on “Dixie’s Great War: World War I and the American South,” to be held Friday, October 6, 2017

September 13, 2017

Register today and plan to attend the one-day symposium, “Dixie’s Great War: World War I and the American South,” to be held Friday, October 6, 2017 at the Ferguson Center Great Hall on The University of Alabama’s campus in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The Dixie’s Great War symposium, hosted by the Summersell Center for the Study of the South, “is considered to be the largest conference in the country on World War I and the South,” says John Giggie, Associate Professor and Director […]

Department Professors Participate in Commemoration of WWI Centennial

April 19, 2017

On Friday, April 14, History Department Professors Harold Selesky, John Beeler, and Andrew Huebner spoke on topics related to the First World War. The event, sponsored by the Department of History, the US Army Crimson Tide ROTC, Battalion, and the USAF Detachment 010, was held to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of American entry into the conflict. Dr. Beeler spoke about the war as a watershed moment in world history, and detailed its environmental, technological, and political legacies. Dr. Huebner examined […]

Associate Professor Andrew Huebner Featured in JAH Discussion

October 6, 2015

The September 2015 issue of the Journal of American History explores World War I’s legacy in the United States by featuring a discussion among nine leading historians of the period, including UA’s own Andrew Huebner, associate professor of history. “April 2017 will mark the one-hundredth anniversary of American entrance into World War I. The centennial is an apt moment to reconsider how this global conflict affected the history of the United States and how American participation in the war impacted […]