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World War II Series
World War II: Experience and Legacy is a series that began in 2020 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the ending of the war.
Presenters covered 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, JD Salinger's war and the impact on his writing, codebreaking, remembrances of the holocaust, cartoons go to war, and more.
Recordings of many of the talks are available through the links below, with more to 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 further information, please contact, Dr. Suzanne Ament (seament@radford.edu) or Dr. Matthew Oyos (moyos@radford.edu) at 540-831-5147.
*(The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement)