Edward Linenthal

Edward Tabor ("Ed") Linenthal (born 1947) is an American academic who specializes in religious and American studies, and particularly memorials and other sacred spaces.

Edward Linenthal
Linenthal at the National Archives, June 2016
Academic background
EducationPh.D.
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

Biography and scholarship

Linenthal received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and worked for 25 years at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, in religious studies. He is currently at Indiana University, in the history department. In his youth, Linenthal played drums for a rock band called 'The Thyme' who often opened for well known acts such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Cream band, The Who, and MC5 at the Grande Ballroom (where The Thyme served as a house band) and The Union Street Station among other locations.

Linenthal is the author of four scholarly monographs, and has served as the editor-in-chief of The Journal of American History.[1] One of his research interests is "sacred ground", that is, the places that are sanctified by sacrifice of one sort of another (and later frequently commercialized[2])--this is the topic of his Sacred Ground, an interest which led to an involvement with the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.[3][4] He is a consultant with the National Park Service, and has worked on such memorials as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum;[5] his Preserving Memory (first published 1995) describes various controversies and debates pertaining to the planning and building of the museum.[6][7]

Books

Authored
  • The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)[8]
  • Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum (2nd ed, New York: Columbia University Press, 2001)[9]
  • Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields (2nd ed, Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1993)[10][11][12]
  • Symbolic Defense: the Cultural Significance of the Strategic Defense Initiative (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1989)

Edited
  • With Jonathan Hyman and Christiane Gruber, The Landscapes of 9/11: A Photographer's Journey (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013)
  • With Tom Engelhardt, History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. New York: Metropolitan Books (1996)
  • With David Chidester, American Sacred Space (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995)

References
  1. "Ed(itor) Linenthal dishes on the details of the Journal of American History". Historiann. 16 April 2009. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  2. Worden, Amy (31 August 2010). "Battle lines drawn over casino near Gettysburg - philly-archives". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  3. "Edward Linenthal Interview". PBS. September 4, 1999. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  4. "Shanksville Memorial". PBS. September 4, 2009. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  5. Fishman, Aleisa (1 November 2012). "Edward T. Linenthal". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  6. Magilow, Daniel H.; Silverman, Lisa (2015). Holocaust Representations in History: An Introduction. Bloomsbury. p. 189. ISBN 9781472513007.
  7. "Rev. of Linenthal, Preserving Memory". The American Historical Review. 101 (5): 1652. 1996. doi:10.1086/ahr/101.5.1652.
  8. Meyers, Leslie D. (2012). "Flagship Memorial: An Analysis of Themes at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 1982-2007". Sociation Today. 10 (1).
  9. Blatt, Martin (1996). "Rev. of Linenthal, Preserving Memory". The Public Historian. 18 (2): 72–74. JSTOR 3377917.
  10. Spielvogel, J. Christian (2013). Interpreting Sacred Ground: The Rhetoric of National Civil War Parks and Battlefields. U of Alabama P. p. 167. ISBN 9780817317751.
  11. Glassberg, David; Edward Tabor Linenthal; John Bodnar (1993). "Patriotism from the Ground Up". Reviews in American History. 21 (1): 1. doi:10.2307/2702941. ISSN 0048-7511. JSTOR 2702941.
  12. Cookman, Claude (2007). "The My Lai Massacre Concretized in a Victim's Face". The Journal of American History. 94: 154–62. Archived from the original on 2015-01-25. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
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