{"id":3646,"date":"2015-03-23T13:53:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T17:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/looking-back-at-world-war-i\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:30:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:30:32","slug":"looking-back-at-world-war-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/looking-back-at-world-war-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at World War I"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dr.<\/a>

Dr. Carolyn Day<\/p><\/div>\n

World War I, which began in 1914 and lasted four years, was one of the deadliest conflicts in human history.<\/p>\n

Furman history professor Carolyn Day will examine how the missing and the dead were treated during and after World War I as well as look at the continuing efforts to honor the soldiers who gave their lives when she speaks at the university\u2019s High Noon spring lecture series Wednesday, April 1 at the Upcountry History Museum-Furman.<\/p>\n

Her lecture, \u201cAnd Also for his Brother: Grief and the Missing in World War I,\u201d begins at noon.\u00a0 It is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Dr. Day\u2019s talk is the third of four High Noon lectures presented by Furman professors during the spring.<\/p>\n

On the evening of August 4, 1914, as time expired on Britain\u2019s ultimatum to Germany, the British foreign minister Sir Edward Grey observed that \u201cthe lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our time.\u201d Given the tragedy of the next four years, when not only the lamps but also the lives of millions were extinguished, that proved to be all too true.<\/p>\n

Day joined the Furman history faculty in 2012.\u00a0 She teaches courses in Modern Europe, Modern Britain and the History of Western Medicine.\u00a0 A graduate of Louisiana State University, she received her M.Phil from the University of Cambridge and her Ph.D. from Tulane University.<\/p>\n

The Upcountry History Museum\/Furman is located at 540 Buncombe Street in downtown Greenville\u2019s Heritage Green area.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact Furman\u2019s Marketing and Public Relations office at 864-294-3107 or vince.moore@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World War I was one of the deadliest conflicts in human history. Furman professor Carolyn Day will examine how the missing and the dead were treated during and after World War I as well as look at the continuing efforts to honor the soldiers who gave their lives when she speaks at the university\u2019s High Noon lecture series Wednesday, April 1 at the Upcountry History Museum-Furman. Her lecture, \u201cAnd Also for his Brother: Grief and the Missing in World War I,\u201d begins at noon. It is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}