Aug
26
2008
Patrick Rael is Associate Professor of History at Bowdoin College. His areas of interest include antebellum America, Civil War and Reconstruction, and comparative slavery. Among other publications, he has edited a volume of scholarship on African-American Activism Before the Civil War (Routledge, 2008). In this talk, Rael places the Vietnam conflict in a continuum of U.S. military engagements, considering the impacts of war on society, and vice versa.
This talk was part of the 2008 Teaching American History teacher program in Brunswick, Maine. Please feel free to leave a comment below.
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| tags: Bowdoin, Patrick Rael, politics, teachers, Vietnam, war
| posted in American, History, World Affairs
Jul
1
2008
The Steel Wave is the second novel in what will be a trilogy of World War II stories by Jeff Shaara, who has also written about the Civil War, the American Revolution, the Mexican War, and the first World War. Shaara is the son of the late Michael Shaara, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Killer Angels, and got his start as a novelist when he was asked to write both a sequel and a prequel to his father’s bestseller.
This talk was part of the Portland Public Library’s Brown Bag Lecture Series. We welcome your feedback on this Jeff Shaara podcast.
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| tags: Portland Public Library, reading, war
| posted in Fiction, Literature
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