{"id":7989,"date":"2019-02-04T19:56:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T19:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/05\/tollison-to-participate-in-wwi-symposium-hosted-by-lander-university\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:18:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:18:47","slug":"tollison-to-participate-in-wwi-symposium-hosted-by-lander-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/tollison-to-participate-in-wwi-symposium-hosted-by-lander-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Tollison to participate in WWI symposium hosted by Lander University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Assistant Professor of History Courtney Tollison will serve as a panelist in <span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">a symposium hosted by Lander University March 14-15 on the impact of World War I on the South. Panel discussion topics include The Military, Foreign Policy &amp; World War I; Women, Patriotism &amp; World War I; Local Stories: World War I, Greenwood and the S.C. Upstate; Race Relations and World War I; and Southern Agriculture and World War I, among others. Read more about the symposium in an article appearing in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexjournal.com\/lakelands_connector\/lander-to-host-symposium-on-world-war-i\/article_b46a236d-6aec-5a62-bc16-664cd63c2420.html\">Index-Journal<\/a><\/strong> (Greenwood).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tollison is Assistant Professor of History at Furman. Previously, she served as the Founding Historian for the Upcountry History Museum-Furman University and Founding Director of the Furman University Oral History Project. She specializes in modern American history, particularly in South Carolina and the Upstate, and in Public History.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Assistant Professor of History Courtney Tollison will serve as a panelist in a symposium hosted by Lander University March 14-15 on the impact of World War I on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-history","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}