Halmos Faculty Interviewed on World War I Podcast

David Kilroy, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Humanities and Politics in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS), was recently interviewed about his book, For Race and Country: The Life and Career of Colonel Charles Young, for the World War I Podcast presented by the MacArthur Memorial.

In 2022, Col. Young was posthumously promoted by the Biden administration to brigadier general – a rank he likely would have advanced to during World War I.  Born into slavery at the close of the U.S. Civil War, in 1917 Charles Young was the highest ranking African American officer in the U.S. Army.

A veteran of the 1916 Mexican Expedition, his name appeared on a list of that campaign’s officers that General John J. Pershing recommended for future brigade command.  Then, just as the U.S. entered World War I, he was controversially sidelined after failing a routine medical exam.  The podcast, linked below, explores the controversy of his forced retirement and other aspects of Charles Young’s extraordinary career.

Charles Young: For Race and Country (buzzsprout.com)

For information about Kilroy’s book, please see:

https://www.amazon.com/Race-Country-Career-Colonel-Charles/dp/0275980057

Posted 02/19/23