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Cambridge scholar to give Friends annual lecture April 21
Posted 4/19/1999
MADISON, Wis.-- Cambridge Historian Jay Winter will speak at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 21, in room 160 of the Elvehjem Museum on campus.
His lecture is titled "Public History & Historical Scholarship: The Making of the Television Series The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century. The talk is the annual lecture hosted by the Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.
Winter, a lecturer in history and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, was chief historian and co-producer of the Emmy-award winning public television series The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, first screened on PBS and BBC2 in 1996.
Critics called The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century "a journey into the intense personal experiences of people trying to make sense of war on a scale the world had never seen."
The television series presented the history of World War I in a new way, interweaving cultural history with well-known political and military events.
Winter has published many books on the First World War, including Socialism and the Challenge of War (1974), The Experience of World War I (1988), and Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning (1995).
Previous annual speakers for the Friends have included Fannie LeMoine (1996), Nancy Willard (1997), and Marianna De Marco Torgovnick (1998).
For more information, contact the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries, 976 Memorial Library, 728 State Street, Madison, WI 53706, or call (608) 265-2505 (e-mail: Friends@library.wisc.edu).
