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Postwar Germany, U.S. subject of David M. Kennedy Center lecture Feb. 24

Louisiana Tech history professor Brian C. Etheridge will be speaking at Brigham Young University’s David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies Wednesday, Feb. 24, at noon in 238 Herald R. Clark Building.

His subject will be “Nazis and Berliners: State Power, Public Diplomacy and Narratives of Germany in Postwar America.” His lecture will also be archived online at kennedy.byu.edu.

He holds the John D. Winters Endowed Professorship in History at Louisiana Tech University, where he directs the university honors program and American Foreign Policy Center. In 2009, Etheridge received the Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize, awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for the best article in the field of American foreign relations by a younger scholar.

For more information, contact Lee Simons at (801) 422-2652.

Writer: Brandon Garrett

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