Topic: “Shell Shock to PTSD” Date: 29 August 2026 Time: 1 p.m. ET/12 p.m. CT/11 a.m. MT/10 a.m. PT. Description: Dr. Sheffer will discuss the evolution of shell shock to the current PTSD that results from wartime trauma. Her scholarship includes The Buffalo Soldiers, A Comprehensive History (2015), contributing author, “Buffalo Soldiers, 1914-1918,” and a chapter in the forthcoming “Old Negro, New Negro: African-American Military Service in the Civil War and the Great War,” for Wars Civil and Great. She earned a Master of Arts degree in Literature from Central Missouri State University and a doctoral degree in Military History from the University of Kansas. Click on this box to go to the Zoom Link!
