'Changing Landscapes: The Environment of the Second World War'

Mississippi State University is hosting the inaugural workshop of the Second World War Research Group-North America featuring award-winning military historian and author Robert Citino as the keynote speaker. The workshop provides participants a forum to reflect on new ways to view conflict. All sessions are in the Grisham Room of Mitchell Memorial Library and are free to the public. Opening remarks are at 8:45 a.m. with panels and sessions scheduled throughout the day. Citino’s address begins at 4:30 p.m. Author of numerous books on the German Army during WWII, Citino also is the senior historian at The National WWII Museum. In addition to Citino’s keynote, papers will be presented by distinguished World War II scholars from the U.S. and Canada, including Conrad Crane of the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center; Robert Engen of Royal Military College of Canada; Robert Jefferson of University of New Mexico; Benjamin Jones of Dakota State University; Kristin Mulready-Stone of the Naval War College; Katrin Paehler of Illinois State University; and Phillip Rutherford of Marshall University. Click the link below for more information.