{"id":21855,"date":"2019-01-24T07:05:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=21855"},"modified":"2019-01-24T09:18:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T15:18:34","slug":"a-world-at-war-taking-a-closer-look-at-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/21855","title":{"rendered":"A World at War: Taking a Closer Look at WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uww.edu\/ce\/fairhaven\/spring-2019\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/ww2lectures.jpg\" alt=\"lectures series website\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>The Spring 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uww.edu\/ce\/fairhaven\/spring-2019\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fairhaven Lecture Series<\/a> will focus on &#8220;A World at War: Taking a Closer Look at WWII.&#8221; All lectures are free and take place on Mondays at 3pm in Fellowship Hall of Fairhaven Senior Services (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/435+W+Starin+Rd,+Whitewater,+WI+53190\/@42.8374313,-88.738451,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8805e0933380f77f:0x626876eee4f6063b!8m2!3d42.8374274!4d-88.736257\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">435 West Starin Road, Whitewater<\/a>), starting on January 28th. Here&#8217;s the schedule of lectures, recordings of which may be posted to the lecture series website:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jan 28:<\/strong> &#8220;Making the Movies Safe for War: The WWII Combat Film&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/cls\/cls-directory\/profile?id=mcguigaj\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John McGuigan<\/a>, Professor, Languages and Literatures<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feb 4:<\/strong> &#8220;Hidden Pasts and Desires: Gay and Lesbian Lives During WWII&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/cls\/cls-directory\/profile?id=barnesa\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Barnes-Gilbert<\/a>, Lecturer, Women\u2019s and Gender Studies<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feb 11:<\/strong> &#8220;Why American Literature Mattered in the 1940s&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/rock.uwc.edu\/bio\/john-pruitt\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Pruitt<\/a>, Associate Professor, English<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feb 18:<\/strong> &#8220;The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb, Part 1&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/rock.uwc.edu\/bio\/david-mckay\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David McKay<\/a>, Senior Lecturer, History<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feb 25:<\/strong> &#8220;The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb, Part 2&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/rock.uwc.edu\/bio\/dave-carlson\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Carlson<\/a>, Senior Lecturer, Philosophy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mar 4:<\/strong> &#8220;American Politics in the Shadow of World War II: Re-examining the Presidential Elections of 1940 and 1944&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/cls\/cls-directory\/profile?id=fucillal\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Louis Fucilla<\/a>, Assistant Professor, Political Science<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mar 11:<\/strong> &#8220;American Hegemony: The World the Greatest Generation Built&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/cls\/cls-directory\/profile?id=wagnerp\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F. Peter Wagner<\/a>, Associate Professor, Political Science<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mar 18:<\/strong> &#8220;Women of the Air: American Women Pilots in World War II&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/rock.uwc.edu\/bio\/elizabeth-jozwiak\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Jozwiak<\/a>, Associate Professor, History<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mar 25:<\/strong> &#8220;Understanding the Soviet Experience in World War II&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/cls\/cls-directory\/profile?id=hachtene\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Hachten<\/a>, Assistant Dean, College of Letters and Sciences<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apr 1:<\/strong> &#8220;WWII and the Creation of the Modern Middle East&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/cls\/cls-directory\/profile?id=pattersm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Molly Patterson<\/a>, Associate Professor, History<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apr 8:<\/strong> &#8220;The German-American Community and World War II: A Cautionary Tale&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/rock.uwc.edu\/bio\/timothy-holian\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Holian<\/a>, Senior Lecturer, Languages and Literatures<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apr 15:<\/strong> &#8220;Children, Save Yourselves! One Family\u2019s Story of Holocaust Survival&#8221; by Ronald Berger, Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Criminology and Anthropology<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apr 22:<\/strong> &#8220;Humanity, Hospitals, or Historical Monuments? Protecting Italian Cities from Aerial Bombardment During World War II&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/cls\/cls-directory\/profile?id=kleinfem\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Margo Kleinfeld<\/a>, Associate Professor, Geography, Geology and Environmental Science<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apr 22:<\/strong> &#8220;The West Is the Best \/ The Beast in the East: World War II Ends and the Cold War Begins&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/cls\/cls-directory\/profile?id=brownk\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karl Brown<\/a>, Assistant Professor, History<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can learn more with Andersen Library resources, such as books like <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=aYRmAQAACAAJ&#038;dq=editions:rxrT48_4WoAC&#038;hl=en&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=0ahUKEwi2o73uk4TgAhVqiOAKHW20B5EQ6AEILzAB\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The World War II combat film: Anatomy of a genre<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, D743.23 .B36 1986) and articles such as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&#038;AuthType=ip,uid&#038;db=asu&#038;AN=505299830&#038;site=ehost-live&#038;scope=site\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strange fruit: White, Black and Asian in the World War II combat film \u201cBataan\u201d<\/a> (<em>Journal of Popular Film &#038; Television<\/em>, 2008, vol.36:no.1, pp.9\u201320. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3200\/JPFT.36.1.9-20) and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&#038;AuthType=ip,uid&#038;db=asu&#038;AN=505134689&#038;site=ehost-live&#038;scope=site\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cinema and the civilizing process: Rethinking violence in the World War II combat film<\/a>&#8221; (<em>Cinema Journal<\/em>, 2005, vol.44:no.3, pp.35-63. There also may be online resources, such as this blog entry from the National Archives with viewable Marine film clips, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov\/2018\/11\/19\/the-camera-tells-the-truth-camera-rolls-from-the-battle-of-tarawa\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Camera Tells the Truth\u201d: Camera Rolls from the Battle of Tarawa<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/get-help\/ask-a-librarian\" target=\"_blank\">ask a librarian<\/a> (email, chat, phone 262.472.1032, or visit the Reference Desk) for assistance with finding additional materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spring 2019 Fairhaven Lecture Series will focus on &#8220;A World at War: Taking a Closer Look at WWII.&#8221; All lectures are free and take place on Mondays at 3pm in Fellowship Hall of Fairhaven Senior Services (435 West Starin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/21855\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2768,34,35],"tags":[351,141,175,178,1672,335,1630,783,231,353,2520,2378,1848,942,17836],"class_list":["post-21855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-wisconsin","category-campus-connection","category-infogov","tag-archives","tag-articles","tag-blogs","tag-books","tag-cinema","tag-federal-government","tag-films","tag-government-info","tag-history","tag-lectures","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-motion-pictures","tag-websites","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21855"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21873,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21855\/revisions\/21873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}