TIME, DATE, PLACE: Thursday, April 2, 2015, 5:00 p.m., 321 Morey Hall, on the University of RochesterÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™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 centuryÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s signal conflict. BlowerÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™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.
