France's Haunting Past: Recent Debates on Twentieth Century French History and National Identity

FAIN: FS-50300-11

Texas A & M Research Foundation (College Station, TX 77843-0001)
Richard J. Golsan (Project Director: March 2011 to April 2016)

A five-week seminar for sixteen college and university faculty members to examine recent debates in France concerning the Vichy Regime and the Holocaust.

This Seminar will examine recent debates in France concerning Vichy and the history of World War II and the Holocaust; decolonization and the Algerian War; the history and memory of Communism’s crimes; and changing perceptions of World War I and commemorative practices associated with it.