PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY: WWII - Class 1, "A Return to Normalcy"

May 29, 2018
7:00pm - 7:00pm

TUESDAY, JULY 24, 2018 AT 7 PM

PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY: WWII - "A Return to Normalcy: America Between the Wars"

The decades of the 1920s and 1930s were separated from the past and the future by two catastrophic world wars. President Harding’s 1920 election campaign called for a “Return to Normalcy” — "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; ...not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality." The next two decades would bring both roaring prosperity and great depression before the outbreak of a second world war in the 1940s.

Instructor: DR. DAVID JAVERSAK, Professor Emeritus, West Liberty University.

Instructor Dr. David Javersak grew up in Weirton and was educated at West Liberty State College, the University of Hawaii, and WVU. He is Dean Emeritus of Liberal Arts and Professor Emeritus of History at West Liberty University.

In keeping with the mission of public libraries as sanctuaries of free learning for all people, the Ohio County Public Library created The People’s University, a free program for adults who wish to continue their education in the liberal arts. The People’s University features courses — taught by experts in each subject — that enable patrons to pursue their goal of lifelong learning in classic subjects such as history, music appreciation, philosophy, and literature. Patrons may attend as many classes as they wish. There are no tests of other requirements and all programs are free and open to the public.

To register for People’s University: WWII, please email the library by visiting the library's website and clicking to the "Contact/Email us" page, call 304-232-0244, or visit the Reference Desk.

- Tuesday, May 29, 2018 - 
People's University classes start at 7 PM in the Library Auditorium. 

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