Lecture by Professor Kurk Dorsey Seventy-five years ago, U.S. leaders faced a series of difficult decisions about the nation's role in the world. Fearing a rise in Soviet power and a decline in faith in democracy in Europe, men like Dean Acheson and George Marshall worried that the hard-won victory in World War II was […]
Lecture by Professor Marion Dorsey In a century in which we are told to spend money to support the economy and the country, and when many rely upon Amazon Prime or Instacart for rapid delivery of necessities and luxuries, how should we understand the World War II rationing programs—especially their challenges and successes--for staples such […]
Lecture and book signing by author Peter Lion On November 17th 1944, at the height of WWII, George Mergenthaler, an only son and heir to a family fortune, arrived into the small war torn town of Eschweiler, Luxembourg. A soldier with the 28th Cavalry Recon Troop, George and the rest of the Recon Troop lived […]
2024 Festival of Trees
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