TIME, DATE, PLACE: Thursday, April 2, 2015, 5:00 p.m., 321 Morey Hall, on the University of Rochester’s River Campus.
ABOUT: Brooke L. Blower is an associate professor of history at Boston University. She is the author of Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars (Oxford, 2011) and coeditor of The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn (Cornell, 2015).
Combat GIs dominate the history of Americans abroad during World War II. But these soldiers constituted only a small fraction of the unprecedented millions of Americans stationed on six continents, both in and out of uniform, during the 20th century’s signal conflict. Blower’s talk looks at the American World War II experience by tracing the backstories of a diverse group of noncombatants and their paths into global war.
ADMISSION: The talk is free and open to the public.
SPONSOR: The event is hosted and sponsored by the American Studies Program, and co-sponsored by the Department of History at the University of Rochester.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact the Multidisciplinary Studies Department at (585) 276-5305.
