Wednesdays, January 15 - February 19 | 6 weeks | 10 am - 12 pm | $65

Instructor: Dr. Robert Haws

In the first sentence of his book Winston's War, Max Hastings writes, "Churchill was the greatest Englishman and one of the greatest human beings of the twentieth century, indeed of all time." Doubtless, Churchill was one of the most compelling public figures of the twentieth century. We spend six weeks evaluating that assertion.

His career spans nearly seven decades, but the defining years of his public life remain the years of the Second World War. That conflict was the central event of the twentieth century, and we still live in its long shadow. Of the major leaders of the belligerents, only Winston Churchill survived to write his version of events. Franklin Roosevelt died just short of final victory, Josef Stalin survived but was a paranoid psychopath, Hitler died by his own hand, Benito Mussolini was murdered by Italian partisans and Hideki Tojo was executed as a war criminal. To a far greater extent than we often realize, our understanding of those events is frequently Churchill's understanding. He was determined to shape the events of 1939-1945 and, more importantly, dominate the historical understanding of those events.

Through lectures, power-points, videos and weekly readings, the class decides whether Hastings’ assertion is deserving.

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Dr. Robert Haws taught American history at the University of Mississippi for forty-two years. In the spring of 1994, he taught American Constitutional history at Moscow State University as a Fulbright scholar. Also, he taught Comparative Constitutionalism for a program dealing with democracy and civil society in the summers of 2010-2013 for the University of Osnabruck, Germany.

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