This History U course aims to add more context and nuance to the traditional American views of the Second World War.
Course Instructor: Professor Michael Neiberg, US Army War College
Eligibility: High school students
Image Source: A photograph of the Tuskegee Glee Club, ca. 1941–1945 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC09587.233)
History U
Free for high school students
This course aims to add more context and nuance to the traditional American views of the Second World War. Although keeping the American experience at the center, this course examines that experience through a global lens. The content covered will challenge some of the myths and half-truths that Hollywood has bequeathed to Americans about the war while introducing some arguments that have emerged from the latest scholarship on themes like the home front, the actual fighting of the war, and the processes of peacemaking. The intention of this course is to provide a serious, scholarly, and objective analysis of the interplay between American, world, and military history during the most destructive war ever.
The views expressed in this course are those of Dr. Michael Neiberg.
Zach MacIntosh explains what you will learn in this course.
Michael Neiberg, Chair of War Studies, US Army War College
Michael Neiberg is the chair of war studies at the US Army War College. He previously taught at the US Air Force Academy and the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Neiberg has conducted extensive research on World War I and World War II through the lenses of social, military, and world history. Some of his books include When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance, The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America, and Making Citizen-Soldiers: ROTC and the Ideology of American Military Service.
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