QU Professor Emeritus Presents a Series of Talks

Quincy University’s Wendell Mauter, Ph.D., professor emeritus of history, will present “Faces of the Second World War” in a series of talks at the Quincy Public Library on Saturdays at 2 p.m., November 13, 2021, and in 2022 on January 8, February 12, March 12 and April 9.

The Second World War was the largest, most complex and costly single event in human history. Mauter will explore the perspectives of those affected by the war and explain their unique experiences. The series of talks will examine what it was like to live through a war of this magnitude as a leader, soldier, airman, sailor, on the home front, as a woman, and as a POW/incarcerated person.

Mauter is also presenting the lecture “December 8, 1941- A Date the Should Live in Infamy: The Global Significance of the 8th of December and the Attack on Pearl Harbor after 80 Years,” on December 8, 2021, in Room 434 at 7 p.m. in Francis Hall (1800 College).

Mauter will discuss what the Japanese really intended to do at Pearl Harbor and throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific on December 8, 1941. The discussion will examine why the Japanese military’s main target was not Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, what the attack on Pearl Harbor meant to Japan and why it was both a major victory and the beginning of the end for Japan. Mauter will also discuss what the attack meant to President Roosevelt in his Declaration of War address to Congress and the American public and what the attack meant for the rest of the world.

Mauter was a long-time professor at QU and has taught courses on the Second World War for years.

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