Event Examines Public Representations of History

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Distinguished historian Edward Linenthal will give the UM Department of History's second annual Hampton Lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 11.

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EVENT EXAMINES PUBLIC REPRESENTATIONS OF HISTORY

MISSOULA –

Distinguished historian Edward Linenthal will give The University of Montana Department of History’s second annual Hampton Lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 11 (Veterans Day). The annual lecture honors former UM history faculty member Duane Hampton.

Linenthal will present “The Problems and Promise of Public History: Little Bighorn Battlefield and Other Contested Historical Sites” at 8 p.m. in Gallagher Business Building Room 106. The event is free and open to the public.

In the illustrated presentation, Linenthal will talk about the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Oklahoma City National Memorial.

Linenthal teaches in the history and religious studies departments of the University of Indiana, Bloomington. Among the many books he has written are “Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum,” “The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory” and “Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields.”


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