Thursday, March 9, 5:00pm in College of Liberal Arts room 4310
The College of Liberal Arts continues its Battlefields and Homefronts: World War I and Modern Life Speaker Series with its Spring 2017 keynote address provided by Dr. Chad Williams, Professor of History at Brandeis University and Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians. Dr. Williams’ address is entitled “African Americans and World War I.”
Dr. Williams’ first book, Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era, was published in 2010 by the University of North Carolina Press and has been widely praised as a landmark study. It won the 2011 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award from the Organization of American Historians, the 2011 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History and designation as a 2011 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. Dr. Williams is co-editor of Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence (University of Georgia Press, 2016) and Major Problems in African American History, Second Edition (Cengage Learning, 2016). He is currently completing a study of W. E. B. Du Bois and World War I.
For more information, contact Paula Zyne in the College of Liberal Arts at pzyne@towson.edu.
