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Jay Winter

Yale University

Jay M. Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University.  He received his BA from Columbia University and his PhD and DLitt degrees from Cambridge University.  Winter is a specialist on World War I and its impact on the 20th century.  His other interests include remembrance of war in the 20th century, such as memorial and mourning sites, European population decline, the causes and institutions of war, British popular culture in the era of the Great War and the Armenian genocide of 1915.  Winter is the author or co-author of a dozen books and was co-producer, co-writer and chief historian for the PBS series “The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century,” which won an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award and a Producers Guild of America Award for best television documentary in 1997.

Contributed Articles

The Great War in American Memory


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