About the Event

This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War. Why did Germany lose the war? What role did the United States play in winning the war? How did the war’s ending lead to an even greater conflict a generation later? Military historian John H. Maurer explores these questions in a lecture on the dramatic and tragic events of 1918.

John MaurerMaurer is a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute's Program on National Security, sits on the Board of Editors for FPRI’s journal, Orbis, and serves as the Alfred Thayer Mahan Professor of Grand Strategy and Sea Power and Distinguished University Professor at the Naval War College. He is also the author of The Outbreak of the First World War.

 

 


Venue

New York Historical Society

170 Central Park West
New York. NY. US. 10024


Registration

For tickets and registration information, call 212-873-3400 or visit www.nyhistory.org.

Discounted tickets are available to FPRI members. 

For more information, please contact Eli Gilman at 215-732-3774, ext. 103 or at egilman@fpri.org


Speakers

John H. Maurer

John H. Maurer - Professor John H. Maurer is a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Program on National Security, sits on the Board of Editors for FPRI’s journal, Orbis, and serves as the Alfred Thayer Mahan Professor of Grand Strategy in the Strategy and Policy Department at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.