USM history professor, map library director to discuss memorializing WWI
As part of the University of Maine’s Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s Symposium series, Libby Bischof, executive director of the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education and professor of history at the University of Southern Maine, will give a lecture from noon–2 p.m. April 9 in Room 100, Nutting Hall.
“Memorializing WWI in Maine and Beyond” is based on the work Bischof and her students have been doing with the Maine World War I Memorial Inventory. The lecture will begin at 12:30 p.m. following a catered reception.