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Much is known about George Seanor Robb as a World War I hero, Medal of Honor recipient and a long-serving government official in his home state of Kansas. Based on largely untapped primary sources at the Kansas State Archives and the Federal Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, New York University professor and author Jeffrey T. Sammons will share a much more nuanced and multidimensional rendering of the man beginning with his years at Park University to his tenure as a school teacher, matriculation at Columbia University, participation at the Second Fort Sheridan Officer Training Camp, assignment with the white-led, mostly black 369th Regiment of New York and life as a celebrity long after the war. The event is being held as part of the Park University Spencer Cave Black History Month Lecture and is also supported by the Organization of American Historians and the Black Archives of Mid-America.