Renowned WW I Expert Neiberg Speaks at ODU on April 8

March 24, 2015

Michael Neiberg

Old Dominion University's Department of History will commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I with a lecture by Michael Neiberg, U.S. Army War College professor of history in the department of national security and strategy.

Neiberg, who is also a well-published author on World War II, will present, "If You Are in Favor of the Kaiser, Keep it to Yourself: U.S. Responses to the War from 1914 to American Entry in 1917."

The free Town-N-Gown event will be held Wed., April 8 at 7 p.m. in room 1012 of the Batten Arts and Letters Building.

Neiberg's next book will be about American responses to the First World War. He has written 10 others, the latest on World War I titled "Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I (2011, Harvard University Press). "Dance of the Furies" was recently named by the Wall Street Journal among the best five books ever written about the First World War.

Neiberg attended the University of Michigan and earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. He has taught at the Air Force Academy, Southern Mississippi and currently is the Henry L. Stimson chair in history at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.