Later tonight twelve Bethel University students, my colleague Sam, and I will be flying off to London to start our three-week adventure studying the history of the First World War on location in England, Belgium, France, and Germany.
I don’t expect to do a lot of blogging during the trip (maybe a few tweets — follow @cgehrz). But if you’re a longtime reader — or if you just stumbled across this blog and would like an introduction to one of its most popular themes — you can “follow along” by using the chart below.
Day by day it suggests some blog reading that relates to what we’ll be up to that day: mostly posts from my summer 2011 series in which I thought through this very trip (some matched up closely, some got changed as details came together), but then a few other Pietist Schoolman posts on the history of the war and its commemoration and legacy, plus links to the Bethel History Department blog (AC 2nd) on days that I expect to post updates.
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Where We’ll Be / |
Suggested Reading |
Jan. 4 |
Arriving in London |
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Jan. 5 |
London: Touring memorials in Whitehall and Hyde Park Corner |
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Jan. 6 |
London: St Paul’s Cathedral, Museum of London |
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Jan. 7 |
London: National Army Museum (the Imperial War Museum is closed until June) |
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Jan. 8 |
London: the Tate Britain |
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Jan. 9 |
London: War Horse at the |
Not much on theatre in my oeuvre, but next closest is… “Great Films about the Great War” |
Jan. 10 |
Day trip to Oxford |
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Jan. 11 |
London: free day |
Visit our department blog for my first update |
Jan. 12 |
Touring battlefield and memorial sites near Ypres |
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Jan. 13 |
Touring sites near Vimy Ridge and the Somme |
“Commemorating World War I: Post-Christian Memory” or |
Jan. 14 |
Touring American sites near Belleau and Château-Thierry |
“Text in Context: Readings for Our World War I Travel Course” or “Bennie and Mabel“ |
Jan. 15 |
Paris: Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, and Les Invalides |
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Jan. 16 |
Day trip to Versailles |
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Jan. 17 |
Paris: free day |
Visit our department blog for my second update |
Jan. 18 |
Paris: sites associated with American expatriates and Armenian refugees |
“Expats” |
Jan. 19 |
Traveling to Munich |
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Jan. 20 |
Munich: the Pinakothek der Moderne |
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Jan. 21 |
Munich: free day |
I’ll be using my day off to visit the Nazi sites at Nuremberg, so maybe read… “This Day in History: |
Jan. 22 |
Munich: walking tour of Nazi sites |
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Jan. 23 |
Day trip to Dachau |
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Jan. 24 |
Flying home to Minneapolis-St. Paul |
“Loving War, Seeking Peace” or perhaps my series on how the war has been commemorated in Minnesota |
After we get back, I’m sure I’ll have some reflections to share here (and some initial thoughts about my next new course — on the history of the Second World War), plus a couple of our students are planning to produce photo essays for their course research projects, which will also be published at the department blog.
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