US Responses to the War

The Department of History
presents
Remembering World War I:
A Hundredth Anniversary Commemoration
Professor Michael Neiberg
US Army War College, Department of National Security and Strategy
“If You are in Favor of the Kaiser, Keep it to Yourself:
US Responses to the War from 1914 to American Entry in 1917”
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
BAL 1012
7:00 p.m.
MICHAEL S. NEIBERG is the Henry L. Stimson Chair and Professor of History in the Department of National Security and Strategy. He is a native of Pittsburgh and
a graduate of both the University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon University. He began his teaching career at the United States Air Force Academy and also
taught at the University of Southern Mississippi where he co-directed the Center for the Study of War and Society. He was the Harold K. Johnson Visiting
Professor at the Army War College for the 2010 Academic Year.
His published work specializes on the First and Second World Wars, notably the American and French experiences. His most recent book on the First World War
is Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I (Harvard University Press, 2011), recently named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the five
best books ever written on the First World War. In October, 2012 Basic Books published his The Blood of Free Men, a history of the liberation of Paris in 1944. In
May, 2015 Basic will also publish his Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe. He is currently at work on a history of American responses
to the First World War, 1914-1917.
For more information and notifications of specific events, contact Program Administrator Kelly Duggins (kduggins@odu.edu)
or phone the Department of History at 757/683-3949.