BLINN-BRYAN TO HOST GUEST LECTURE ON U.S.-FRENCH RELATIONS DURING WWII
Update @ 2:30 p.m. Oct. 26: Blinn College issued a notice this (Wednesday) afternoon stating that Dr. Michael Nieberg's guest lecture scheduled for this evening has been cancelled due to illness.
Original Story @ 6 a.m. Oct. 22: The Blinn College-Bryan Campus will host American diplomatic historian Dr. Michael Neiberg for a discussion about the relationship between the United States and France during World War II.
Sponsored by Blinn’s History Department in the Division of Social Sciences, the presentation will be streamed live through Zoom Wednesday, Oct. 26, at 6:00 p.m. in the Bryan Campus Student Center, Room F-120.
Participants can join in person or livestream the Zoom discussion.
“This is a great opportunity for our students and the larger Blinn community to learn about a complex and nuanced moment in our nation’s history from an expert in the field,” Assistant Academic Dean Dr. Katherine Wickes said.
Neiberg will discuss his book, “When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance,” which focuses on France’s dramatic fall to Germany in 1940 and the United States’ subsequent involvement with the Vichy government. Though intended to postpone U.S. involvement in the war, the partnership with the Vichy government severely threatened the United States’ relationship with Great Britain and had lasting repercussions on U.S.-French relations for decades.
The Wall Street Journal writes that Neiberg’s book is “Deeply researched and forcefully written … Neiberg deftly explains the confused politics and diplomacy that bedeviled the war against the Nazis.”
Neiberg is professor of history and chair of War Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. The author of numerous books and scholarly articles, his work focuses primarily on World War I and II. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Michigan and his Master of Arts and Ph.D. in history from Carnegie Mellon University.
For more information about the presentation, contact Katherine Wickes at katherine.wickes@blinn.edu.
Blinn’s History Program offers an Associate of Arts degree in history, and students can complete the degree online or on any of Blinn’s five campuses. Through the Clear Affordable Pathways to Success (CAPS) Program offered in partnership with the University of Houston-Victoria (UHV), history students can earn their Associate of Arts in History from Blinn and their Bachelor of Arts in History from UHV.
To learn more about Blinn’s history degree offerings and partnerships, visit www.blinn.edu/history.
(Story courtesy Richard Bray, Blinn Information)