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* Stephen Ives, The Great War series producer
* A. Scott Berg, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and author of Wilson
* Andrew Carroll, Director of the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University and author of My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War
* Jennifer Keene, Chair of the Department of History at Chapman University and author of three books about World War I: Doughboys, the Great War and the Remaking of America, The United States and the First World War, and World War I
* Jeffrey Sammons, Professor of History at New York University and co-author of Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality
* Lisa Desjardins, PBS Newshour Correspondent, will moderate the discussion.
Introductory remarks from:
* Jonathan Barzilay, PBS Chief Operating Officer
* Pat Harrison, Corporation for Public Broadcasting President and CEO
* Mark Samels, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE executive producer
ABOUT THE GREAT WAR
Premiering APRIL 10, 11 and 12 at 9pm on WETA and PBS stations nationwide
Drawing on the latest scholarship, including unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, The Great War tells the rich and complex story of World War I through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and the American troops who came to be known as “doughboys.” The series explores the experiences of African-American and Latino soldiers, suffragists, Native-American “code talkers” and others whose participation in the war to “make the world safe for democracy” has been largely forgotten. The Great War also explores how a brilliant PR man bolstered support for the war in a country hesitant to put lives on the line for a foreign conflict; how President Woodrow Wilson steered the nation thr ...More...
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