Dr. Gerhard Weinberg

The Robert H. Jackson Center will host Dr. Gerhard Weinberg, a noted World War II historian, on Monday, Sept. 24, at 12:30 p.m. in the Robert H. Jackson Center’s Cappa Theatre.

Weinberg is a German-born American diplomatic and military historian noted for his studies in the history of World War II. He is the William Rand Kenan Jr. professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Weinberg has been a member of the history faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1974. Previously he served on the faculties of the University of Michigan (1959-1974) and the University of Kentucky (1957-1959).

The program will be the inaugural Al and Marge Brown lecture on World War II, established with an endowment gift from Philip and Mary Ann Zimmer to benefit the Jackson Center. Weinberg will be interviewed by Gregory L. Peterson, Jackson Center co-founder, a partner at Phillips Lytle LLC. The interview will focus on the rise of the Nazi party that forced a young Gerhard to flee his native Germany in 1938. That development led to his lifelong interest in researching and writing about World War II.

The program is also part of a series of events sponsored, in part, by Chautauqua County Veterans Service Agency, PFC Joseph Dwyer Peer-to-Peer program.

The program is free and open to the public. For questions, contact the Jackson Center at 483-6646.