Historian to lecture on 'Violence and the American Landscape'

8:27 a.m., March 10, 2016--Historian Edward T. Linenthal will speak at the University of Delaware at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 15, in 103 Gore Hall, on “Violence and the American Landscape.”

His talk, which is the Department of History’s annual William Watson Harrington Lecture, is free and open to the public. Coffee and refreshments will follow in the Gore Hall lobby.

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Linenthal, a renowned researcher in the effects of violence, terrorism and war on American society and culture, is a professor of history and editor of the Journal of American History at Indiana University. 

He was a Sloan Research Fellow in the Arms Control and Defense Policy Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he researched his first book, Symbolic Defense: The Cultural Significance of the Strategic Defense Initiative.

He also is the author of Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields; Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum; and The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory. 

Linenthal has co-edited books including History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past with Tom Engelhardt and, most recently, The Landscapes of 9/11: A Photographer’s Journey with art historian Christiane Gruber and photographer Jonathan Hyman. 

The Department of History holds the William Watson Harrington Lecture each year to honor Harrington, a UD alumnus (1895) and 59-year member of the University’s Board of Trustees.

History workshop

Linenthal also will speak earlier in the day on March 15, as part of the weekly History Workshop series that meets from 12:30-1:45 p.m. on Tuesdays in 203 Munroe Hall.

In that talk, also free and open to the public, he will speak on the topic "And Into the Black Hole of Journal Evaluation Goes My Manuscript: Demystifying the Process."

Article by Christopher Razzano