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From: Cathy Sullivan Seblonka <cathys_at_uproc.lib.mi.us>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:38:33 -0500
More than 30 years ago I read Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth. I may be forgetting some facts but I remember Vera lost her brother and fiancee in World War I. In order to try to make some sense of the war and the loss of a generation of men, Vera wished to study the Great War at Oxford in the early 1920s. However, there weren't any classes because the war was too close. Seems to me she was told it would be decades before there were history classes about the Great War. Are universities studying the history of the Gulf Wars now? Our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? How long ago do events have to have occurred before university history departments offer classes about them?
Cathy Sullivan Seblonka Youth Services Librarian Peter White Public Library 217 N. Front St. Marquette, MI 49855 906-226-4323 cathys_at_pwpl.info
Received on Fri 09 Nov 2012 09:38:33 AM CST
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:38:33 -0500
More than 30 years ago I read Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth. I may be forgetting some facts but I remember Vera lost her brother and fiancee in World War I. In order to try to make some sense of the war and the loss of a generation of men, Vera wished to study the Great War at Oxford in the early 1920s. However, there weren't any classes because the war was too close. Seems to me she was told it would be decades before there were history classes about the Great War. Are universities studying the history of the Gulf Wars now? Our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? How long ago do events have to have occurred before university history departments offer classes about them?
Cathy Sullivan Seblonka Youth Services Librarian Peter White Public Library 217 N. Front St. Marquette, MI 49855 906-226-4323 cathys_at_pwpl.info
Received on Fri 09 Nov 2012 09:38:33 AM CST
