WHAT: Brown Bag Lecture Series
HOSTED BY: UNK Department of History
TITLE: “George Norris at War and Peace”
TOPIC: From his vote against World War I to his call for a “peace without hate” in World War II, Nebraska Sen. George Norris searched for peace in a troubled world. As one of the Senate’s leading voices, Norris championed peace and diplomacy for decades, regardless of Washington’s political headwinds. Born during the Civil War’s opening months, Norris passed as the globe still burned in 1944. Across his life, Norris forged a path for peace, a path this talk will follow, from his Ohio boyhood to his storied Nebraska political career.
PRESENTER: Nathan Tye is the associate professor of Nebraska and American West history at UNK. He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. A Nebraska history specialist, Tye serves on the boards of community museums and cultural organizations across the state, including the Buffalo County Historical Society, G.W. Frank Museum, Japanese Hall History Project and Mari Sandoz Society. His research appears in Nebraska History, where it received the James Sellers Award in 2019, as well as the Annals of Iowa, Willa Cather Review and other publications. He also appeared on NBC’s celebrity genealogy show “Who Do You Think You Are?”
TIME: Noon
DATE: Wednesday, Nov. 18
PLACE: Kearney Public Library, 2020 First Ave.
VIDEO: Available on the Kearney Public Library YouTube channel
CONTACT: Nathan Tye, associate history professor, 308.865.8739, tyen@unk.edu