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Wednesday, May 15, 2002
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
Historian Kurt Piehler of the University of Tennessee will give a talk, "The Past Re-Experienced: Oral History and World War II Combatant Memories," at 4 p.m., Thursday, May 23, in the Common Room, Old Main, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. The lecture is free and open to the public.
A leading military historian, Piehler wrote "Remembering War the American Way," co-authored "Major Problems in American Military History," and edited the book series "The Second World War." He wrote 16 articles in the "Oxford Companion to American Military History," for which he served as a consulting editor.
In his works, Piehler has argued that Americans can only understand themselves fully if they deal with the way they experience war and remember it in the present. He conducted hundreds of interviews with veterans for the Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II, which formed the basis for a televised lecture, "The War That Transformed a Generation," on the History Channel in 1997.
Piehler is a graduate of Drew University and earned master's and doctoral degrees at Rutgers University. He is assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and director of the Center for the Study of War and Society.
The lecture is sponsored by the Knox College History Department and the Cultural Events Committee.
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