Join Tammy Proctor, distinguished professor of history, for the University Forum Lecture, "Europe, War, and the Birth of American Global Power," at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025 at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Auditorium.

About the Lecture

While many Americans think of World War I as a footnote in U.S. history and the 1920s as a time in which the nation moved toward isolation, Tammy Proctor examines the birth of U.S. global power in Europe and the world from 1914 to 1924. Rather than staying out of global matters, the United States intervened for military and humanitarian purposes in Europe, established a political and economic presence on the world stage, and began a century-long project of U.S. foreign aid and development.