[149] Internationally Acclaimed Holocaust Expert Visits MTSU

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 15, 2009
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081, or WMOT-FM, 615-898-2800

INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED HOLOCAUST EXPERT VISITS MTSU
Weinberg Discusses Holocaust and Modern Ripple Effects on “MTSU on the Record”

(MURFREESBORO) – Dr. Gerhard L. Weinberg, professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and world-renowned Holocaust expert, will be the guest on “MTSU on the Record” with host Gina Logue at 7 a.m. this Sunday, Oct. 18, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).
Weinberg is slated to speak on the topic “Roosevelt, Truman and the Holocaust” at 7:15 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 22, at the 2009 MTSU International Holocaust Studies Conference.
The author of 10 books, Weinberg’s A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II received three major awards for scholarship, was a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection, and is widely considered to be the best single-volume history of the war.
To hear last week’s program with gender equality expert Dr. Paula England, go to http://frank.mtsu.edu/~proffice/podcast2009.html and click on “October 11, 2009.” For more information, contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.

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