Tag: Love and Death in the Great War


Andrew Huebner’s Love and Death in the Great War wins SHGAPE President’s Prize

Professor Andrew Huebner‘s Love and Death in the Great War (Oxford UP, 2018) has been awarded the 2020 President’s Prize by the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. The Presidents’ Book Prize is awarded in even-numbered years for the best book treating any aspect of United States history in the period 1865-1920s. It must be the author’s second or subsequent scholarly book. In Love and Death in the Great War Huebner argues that Americans viewed World […]

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Dr. Andrew Huebner Speaks at National World War I Museum

On July 1, Department of History Associate Professor and OAH Distinguished Lecturer Andrew Huebner spoke to a gathering at the National World War I Museum and Memorial, in Kansas City, Missouri. Huebner discussed his latest work, Love and Death in the Great War. His presentation is available via the National WWI Museum and Memorial’s Youtube channel.

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Department Celebrates Recent Publications by Faculty

The History Department celebrated three faculty members publishing books earlier this semester. Professor Emeritus Howard Jones published My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness. In it, Jones gives an exhaustively researched and compelling look at the events of March 16, 1968, when U.S. troops entered a group of hamlets on a “search and destroy” mission. Three hours later, more than 500 civilians were dead, killed by U.S. soldiers in the My Lai Massacre, named after one of the […]

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