Wilkinson College and the History Department present special guest speaker, Annessa Stagner, Monday, March 31, 2014 at 1 p.m. in Beckman Hall, Rom 212.

Stagner will discuss the history of medical understandings of wartime mental trauma from the Civil War through the First World War. This talk will focus on the ways in which military officers, medical doctors, and families understood shell shock and attempted to assist in the soldier’s recovery.

Stagner has been a speaker for TEDx as well as CSPAN American History TV.  Her most recent article, entitled “Healing the Soldier, Restoring the Nation: Representations of Shell Shock in the United States of America During and After the First World War” will be published in the April 2014 edition of the “Journal of Contemporary History”.

This event is free and open to the public and sponsored by the History Department and Wilkinson College. For Further Information, please contact Jennifer Keene at keene@chapman.edu or (714) 744-2102.