Episode 50 - George Herring, Professor Emeritus of History

Host Bill Goodman is joined by Dr. George Herring, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Herring retired from UK after thirty-six years, including three terms as chair of the Department of History. He specializes in the history of U.S. foreign relations and is an expert on the Vietnam War. Dr. Herring is also a member of our Kentucky Humanities Speakers Bureau. On today’s episode, he discusses one of his favorite lectures, "An Ordinary Soldier in an Extraordinary War," which tells the story of a WWI soldier based on the letters he wrote home and a pocket diary he kept while in Europe.