Wednesday, May 31st, 2017

Bucknell, the Liberal Arts, & WWI

Where did history happen, what history do we consider to be significant, who are ‘we’, and what can history do for us? As a geographer involved with this project, I have found myself considering these essential and interrelated questions, as we have all struggled to make sense of the massive scale of death associated with WWI, and to somehow find some meaning in it. So where did WWI history happen? Here I would argue it’s all about perspective, and for most people in the world, WWI history happened somewhere else -far beyond respective nation state borders. The result is that […]

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Friday, May 19th, 2017

Retracing the journey and honoring the service of Joe Aleshouckas (1915)

After doing a lot of archival research and ‘detective work’, we’re really looking forward to visiting the little French village of Manonville on the afternoon of May 27th, and more precisely what is now a nondescript farmer’s field but what was once a WWI American aerodrome on the Western Front. Here we are retracing the journey and honoring the service of Joe Aleshouckas (1915), a pilot who was stationed here with the 168th Aero Squadron. Keep following our blog (here on our webpage) and we’ll let you know what we discover!

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