C-SPAN 2014 Cities Tour and WJU Historians

As part of the C-SPAN 2014 Cities Tour, two historians from Wheeling Jesuit University -- Associate Professors Dan Weimer and Jeff Rutherford -- were interviewed about their respective publications. The C-SPAN series highlights the history and literary communities of various American cities, with recent stops in Waco and Austin, Texas, as well as Madison, Wisconsin and Lafayette, Indiana. While in Wheeling, C-SPAN will investigate the history of National Road, look at the importance of Wheeling as an entrance to the western frontier, and examine the life and legacy of Earl Oglebay. In addition to focusing on the history of the region, the program also interviews local authors of non-fiction.

WJU Historian at Work, Part III: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front: The German Infantry's War, 1941-1944

In keeping with the History Department's emphasis on maintaining an active scholarly agenda, Jeff Rutherford, Associate Professor of History, recently published the monograph Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front: The German Infantry's War, 1941-1944 with Cambridge University Press. The book was released simultaneously in hardcover, paperback, and electronic form. David Stahel, author of four books on Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, has written in War in History that the book is "[a] pioneering new work. . . It is an impressive achievement which underlines the potential for future research into the many unknown divisions of the German Ostheer. Wherever such research takes us, Rutherford’s concept of ‘military necessity’ will require substantive engagement. . . "