WVSU College of Business and Social Sciences Convocation to Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the End of World War I

11/8/2018

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Contact: Jack Bailey
(304) 766-4109
Jbaile19@wvstateu.edu
     
INSTITUTE, W.Va. – The West Virginia State University (WVSU) College of Business and Social Sciences will host its fall convocation, “The American Army and the First World War: Looking Back 100 Years,” beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 13.

The convocation will be held in the auditorium of Wallace Hall, room 122, and will feature Dr. David R. Woodward, emeritus faculty member of the History Department at Marshall University.

“The topic is especially relevant for 2018,” said WVSU History Professor Billy Joe Peyton, “as we commemorate the centennial of the armistice that ended the fighting in World War I on the ‘eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month’ in 1918 — a holiday we now call Veterans Day.” 

Woodward is the author of three books on World War I. His most recent work, “The American Army and the First World War,” was published by Cambridge University Press and has been called “a definitive history of the American army's performance in World War I, ranging from wartime leadership to training and combat in France and Russia.”

The event is free and open to the public.

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