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.
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.
Dan Weimer talked about his book Seeing Drugs: Modernization, Counter-Insurgency, and U.S. Narcotics Control in the Third World, 1969-1976 while Jeff Rutherford discussed his study Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front: The German Infantry's War, 1941-1944. Both of their interviews, as
well as those of other local authors, will be televised on January 17
and 18, 2015, on C-SPAN 2 and 3. For more information on the Wheeling
visit, see Weelunk.com's coverage of the press conference held today in Independence Hall.
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