According to a press release Monday, Angelo State University’s History Department will be continuing its Great War Centennial Commemoration Lecture Series with “Chemical Warfare in the Great War” on Thursday, Feb. 16, in the Houston Harte University Center, 1910 Rosemont Drive.
Drs. John Osterhout, Ralph Zehnder and Gregory Smith of ASU’s chemistry faculty will discuss the development and deployment of chemical weapons during World War I at 7 p.m. in the University Center’s C.J. Davidson Conference Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The three-year lecture series, which began in September of 2015, is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant No. AC-226771-15. The series commemorates World War I, also known as the Great War, and is co-organized by Dr. Christine Lamberson and Dr. Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai of ASU’s history faculty.
Two additional events are scheduled for the Great War Centennial Commemoration Lecture Series this spring:
- 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 22: “Drafting for the World War and the World Series.” Dr. William Taylor, ASU assistant professor of security studies, and Dr. David Dewar, ASU associate professor of history, will discuss the military draft and the role of baseball during the Great War era.
- 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 26: “In Sarajevo’s Shadow: World War I and the Lessons of History.” Dr. Adam R. Seipp, director of graduate studies at Texas A&M University and author of “Strangers in the Wild Place: Refugees, Americans, and a German Town, 1945-1952,” will discuss what can be learned from the outcome and legacy of the Great War.
For more information, contact the History Department at 325-942-2324 or [email protected], or go online to angelo.edu/dept/history/great-war.
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