History Speaker Series: Edward Linenthal on the Problem and Promise of Public History

[Anne Leask]

Please join us for the last History Speaker Series event for the Fall term:

Edward T. Linenthal of Indiana University to speak at the UW History Department on what memorializing our victims and heroes tells us about ourselves.

Friday 28 November 2014
12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Hagey Hall 117, MacKirdy Reading Room
Light lunch provided
RSVP by 21 November to aeleask at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:aeleask at uwaterloo.ca>


*      Edward T. Linenthal, Department of History, Indiana University, and editor of the Journal of American History, speaker.

*      Gary Bruce, Chair of the UW History Department, moderator.

*      Geoffrey Hayes, UW History Department, commentator.

On Friday 28 November, 12:30 PM-2:00 PM, Prof. Edward T. Linenthal of Indiana University, will give a talk entitled, "The Problems and Promise of Public History: From the Battlefield, to Oklahoma City, to 9/11."

Prof. Edward T. Linenthal is a professor of history at Indiana University, and the editor in chief of The Journal of American History. Prof. Linenthal is one of the world's most eminent authorities on what memorializing our deceased heroes and other victims of violence tells us about ourselves. He is the author or co-author of many path-breaking works on the memorializing of heroes and victims of violence, including Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields (1993), The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory (2001) and, most recently, The Landscapes of 9/11: A Photographer's Journey (2013). Prof. Linenthal has done pioneering work on memorializing a wide range of traumatic events in the U.S.: 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Battle of Gettysburg, the assassination of JFK, the Washington DC Holocaust Museum, and Gen. George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn. Recently, he has begun consulting with the commission in Norway that is overseeing the memorializing of the 22 July 2011 bombing and shootings that left more than seventy people dead and scores wounded.


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Anne Leask
Undergraduate Program Co-ordinator
Department of History<https://uwaterloo.ca/history/current-undergraduates>
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