WWI Lecture: John Deak (University of Notre Dame)

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Location: Annenberg Auditorium, Snite Museum of Art

John Deak, Department of History

The Great War's Forgotten Realm: Revisiting the Habsburg Monarchy's First World War

For a long time historians have seen the First World War as the last nail in the coffin for the dying Habsburg Empire. Notre Dame’s own Historian John Deak will talk about new, emerging perspectives that fundamentally call into question this classic interpretation and what it may mean for central European history and our understanding of the First World War.