Friends of the Library of Sewanee and the Finding Your Place program are hosting a public lecture by historian and former Vice-Chancellor Samuel R. Williamson, at 3:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 17, in Convocation Hall. Williamson will talk about “The Start of the First World War: What Happened and Why It Still Matters.” A reception will follow the lecture.
Williamson, the 14th vice-chancellor of the University of the South (1998–2000) and professor of history emeritus, has written extensively on the origins of the First World War. His books include “The Politics of Grand Strategy: Britain and France Prepare for War, 1904–1914,” “Austria-Hungary and the Origins of the First World War” and “July 1914—Soldiers, Statesmen and the Coming of the Great War: A Brief Documentary History.” He has lectured often on the topic at Cambridge, Oxford, Vienna, Harvard and most recently as a keynote lecturer at Queen Mary University in London at an international conference on the start of the First World War.
Williamson is also the author of “Sewanee Sesquicentennial History: The Making of the University of the South,” the first comprehensive history of the institution. Making full use of the University’s rich archival resources and of many interviews, the book examines and re-examines Sewanee’s past: from the original concepts underlying its creation to the desperate struggle after the Civil War to become a distinctive and effective Episcopal university in the South.
For more information about the event or Friends of the Library, contact Judy Rollins at 598-1265 or email <jrollins@sewanee.edu>.
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