Jan 3, 2018 2 min read

Michael Neiberg returns to Peters Township Public Library at 7 p.m. Jan. 18 for “America in War and Peace.”

This is the final program in the World War I and America series presented in partnership with VFW Memorial Park Post 764 and the Veterans Breakfast Club.

Neiberg will examine the role of the United States in winning the war and shaping postwar peace. Military strategy and postwar diplomacy were intimately linked as President Woodrow Wilson sought a distinct, independent American contribution to victory in order to ensure him a guiding role in the peace conference. Wilson’s views on postwar peace met with resistance, both from his European allies and from his fellow Americans. Echoes of that debate still resonate today.

Neiberg has a doctorate in history from Carnegie Mellon University and is the inaugural chairman of War Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College.

His published work specializes on the First and Second World Wars, notably the American and French experiences. The Wall Street Journal named his “Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I” one of the five best books ever written about the First World War.

World War I and America is presented by Library of America in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the National World War I Museum and Memorial, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

To register for this free program, visit www.ptlibrary.org or call 724-941-9430.