MIT World Speakers

Edward T. Linenthal

Edward T. Linenthal is the Edward M. Penson Professor of Religion and American Culture and the Chancellor's Public Scholar at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. His books include Sacred Ground: Americans and their Battlefields (University of Illinois Press, 1993), Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum (Viking Press, 1995), and co-edited with Tom Engelhardt, History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past (Henry Holt, 1996). His latest book, The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory, was released by Oxford University Press in November 2001.