The Melbern G. Glasscock Lectures:  New Directions in U.S. History

 

presents

 

"Japanese Internment in the Great Plains "

 

by

 

Dr. R. Douglas Hurt

Professor & Head of History, Purdue University

 

 

Monday, October 1, 2007

7:00 - 8:30 PM

Sterling Evans Library, Room 204E

 

R. Douglas Hurt is Professor and Head of History at Purdue University.  He has written or edited eighteen books, including The Great Plains During World War II (forthcoming spring 2008), The Indian Frontier, 1763-1846 (2002), and the award-winning Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Little Dixie (1992), and over three dozen articles and book chapters.  He served as Director of the Graduate Program in Agricultural and Rural Studies at Iowa State University for fifteen years, and as editor of Agricultural History from 1994 to 2003.  Among many honors, he is past president (2000-2001) of the Agricultural History Society.

 

 

A public lecture sponsored by the Department of History.

For additional information, please contact Dr. Walter L. Buenger by email: w-buenger@tamu.edu