What are the legacies of the Great War for our world today? How can we avoid another terrible war in the 21st century?

Dr. Suri talks with University of Texas history professor Michael Stoff about World War I, and what United States citizens should do to stay informed and care for its veterans.

This episode opens with a reading of T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” by Tom O’Bedlam.

Michael B. Stoff received his B.A. from Rutgers College and Ph.D. from Yale University. He is currently Associate Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor and an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer.  For over a decade, he has been the director of the nationally acclaimed Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Oil, War and American Security, co-editor of The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age, series co-editor of The Oxford New Narratives in American History and co-author of five American history textbooks. He has been honored many times for his teaching, most recently with the UT system-wide Regents Outstanding Teaching Award. In 2015, he was recognized for his contributions with induction into the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is at work on a book about Nagasaki and the meaning of the atomic bomb.