LEXINGTON, Va. April 8, 2026 — Virginia Military Institute welcomes Michael Neiberg, Ph.D., professor of history at the U.S. Army War College and award-winning author, for a talk entitled, “Whole, Free, and at Peace? Why History Won't Let Europe Go,” Thursday, April 16 at 8 p.m. in the Hall of Valor in Marshall Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Neiberg is a renowned historian who specializes in 20^th century military history. He has written multiple books including “Making Citizen-Soldiers: ROTC and the Ideology of American Military Service;” “Fighting the Great War: A Global History;” “The Second Battle of the Marne;” “The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944,” winner of the Madigan Award; and “Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I,” which was named one of the five best books on WWI by the Wall Street Journal.  

The event is sponsored by the John A. Adams ’71 Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis and the John Biggs ’30 Cincinnati Endowment in Military History.

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