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Paul Wilson
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History talk set at Jeanerette Museum

The Jeanerette Museum is hosting a history talk at 6 p.m. March 25 on The Home Front and World War II featuring Nicholls State University Professor Paul Wilson.
Life on the home front during the war not only affected women and civilians, but played a major impact on the outcome of the war, according to Wilson. Citizens were encouraged to plant gardens to increase farming and production of goods. The government rationed supplies, prepared for home defense and encouraged the collection of scrap materials to be used in the war effort.
“I picked The Home Front because it allows me to talk about not just women but other aspects of mobilizing for war using groups often neglected and dismissed,” said Wilson.
Wilson is the associate professor of history at NSU. He has publications on European and American history and is the author of “Himmler’s Cavalry: The Equestrian SS, 1930-1945.” He teaches a variety of courses on modern U.S. and modern European history, and he supervises history interns working at the Regional Military Museum in Houma.
He is a member of the teaching committee of the Louisiana Historical Association and is involved in a number of community organizations that promote the study of history.
Wilson also teaches a study program at Nicholls in partnership with the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, called the Normandy Academy. Students study at the museum and travel to Normandy to battlefields and various sites related to the D-Day invasion.
For more information on this free program, which is suitable for an adult audience, contact the Jeanerette Museum Tuesdays to Fridays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 337-276-4408, visit its webpage at www.jeanerettemuseum.com or email the museum at jeanerettemuseum@yahoo.com.

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