Brands, who presents history through stories, will speak at lunch on “We’re All Wilsonians, Whether We Like It or Not.” His books, "The First American" and "Traitor to His Class" were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize. He has written 25 books, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. His writings have earned critical and popular acclaim. Brands is a regular guest of national radio and television programs and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press.

His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Brands worked as an oral historian at the University of Texas School of Law and has taught at Vanderbilt University. Other teaching positions include Texas A&M University, where he remained for 17 years, and in 2005, he joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where he currently holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History.

The Teach-In will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall in Catlett Music Center, 500 W. Boyd St., with the first talk, “Christendom’s Last Holy War? The First World War as a Crusade” by Philip Jenkins, who has published 25 books, which have been translated into 16 languages.

Jenkins is a distinguished professor of history at Baylor University and serves as co-director for the Program on Historical Studies of Religion in the Institute for Studies and Religion.

The next session will begin at 10:30 a.m. on the subject of “Recycling the Disabled: Modern Medicine in the First World War” by Heather Perry, whose current book project, "Feeding War: Gender, Health, and Mobilization in WWI Germany," examines the history of food, nutritional health and the domestic sphere in World War I Germany.

Capozzola will speak on “Uncle Sam Wants You: Oklahoma, the First World War, and the Making of Modern America.” He is an associate professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the co-curator of an exhibition at the National World War I Museum and has appeared in World War I documentaries for "History, Who Do You Think You Are?" and "History Detectives."

The next session will begin at 3 p.m. for a talk titled “The First World War in the Middle East” by Eugene Rogan, a historian and author on modern Middle Eastern history. In his newest book, "The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East," he explores the often ignored story of the region’s crucial role in World War I. His works have been translated into 15 languages. Rogan is a professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Oxford and is director of the Middle East Centre at St. Antony’s College in Oxford.