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Edward Linenthal

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Edward Linenthal's Degrees

PhD History University of California, Berkeley
Masters History University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Edward Tabor Linenthal is an American academic who specializes in religious and American studies, and particularly memorials and other sacred spaces. Biography and scholarship Linenthal received his A.B. from Western Michigan University in 1969, his M.Div. from the Pacific School of Religion in 1973, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1979. He worked for 25 years at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, in religious studies and completed his career with the Indiana University history department. Now retired, Linenthal now resides in Virginia.

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Edward Linenthal's Published Works

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Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum (1995) (262)
History wars : the Enola Gay and other battles for the American past (1998) (221)
American Sacred Space (1992) (150)
Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields (1991) (137)
Remembering War the American Way. (1995) (88)
Stories and Bodies: A Personal Reflection on Alessandro Portelli's The Order Has Been Carried Out (2005) (36)
Changing Images of the Warrior Hero in America: A History of Popular Symbolism (1983) (27)
Struggling with History and Memory (1995) (26)
American samurai : myth, imagination, and the conduct of battle in the First Marine Division, 1941-1951 (1995) (26)
The boundaries of memory: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (1994) (17)
The National Park Service and Civic Engagement (2006) (16)
Symbolic Defense: The Cultural Significance of the Strategic Defense Initiative (1989) (13)
Committing History in Public (1994) (12)
Ritual Drama at the Little Big Horn: The Persistence and Transformation of a National Symbol (1983) (8)
Problems and Promise in Public History (1997) (8)
A Review of: “The Martyrs of Columbine: Faith and the Politics of Tragedy” (2006) (7)
The Contested Landscape of American Memorialization: Levinson's Written in Stone (2000) (6)
Violence and the American Landscape: The Challenge of Public History. (2002) (5)
Nuclear War: A Teaching Guide. (1984) (5)
Constructing Political Reality: Language, Symbols, and Meaning in Politics@@@Constructing the Political Spectacle@@@Government Is Good: Citizenship, Participation, and Power@@@The Symbolic Presidency@@@Symbolic Defense: The Cultural Signficance of the Strategic Defense Initiative@@@Common Knowledge: (1994) (4)
A Shuddering dawn : religious studies and the nuclear age (1990) (4)
Review of The Martyrs of Columbine: Faith and the Politics of Tragedy By Justin Watson.:The Martyrs of Columbine: Faith and the Politics of Tragedy (2004) (4)
:Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn since 1876 (2009) (4)
“The Predicament of Aftermath” : Oklahoma City and September 11 (2005) (3)
Between history and memory: TheEnola Gaycontroversy at the national air and space museum (1995) (3)
American Atomic Culture@@@Unthinking the Unthinkable: Nuclear Weapons and Western Culture@@@War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination@@@Symbolic Defense: The Cultural Significance of the Strategic Defense (1991) (2)
Editor's Annual Report, 2012–2013 (2013) (2)
Our Town A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America by Cynthia Carr (2007) (2)
“1699: When Virginia Was the Wild West!” DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Colonial Williamsburg, 325 Francis St., Williamsburg, VA 23185. (2002) (2)
“Stony the Road They Trod: Forced Migration of African Americans in the Slave South, 1790–1865.” (2002) (1)
Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post–9/11 Era by Marita Sturken (review) (2022) (1)
Ken Burns's The National Parks: America's Best Idea: Compelling Stories and Missed Opportunities (2011) (1)
Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site; Birmingham Civil Rights Institute; and National Civil Rights Museum (2004) (1)
The A‐Bomb Controversy at the National Air and Space Museum (1995) (1)
Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America (2005) (1)
The instability of sacred space sacralization and desecration (2011) (1)
Editor's Annual Report, 2013–2014 (2014) (0)
Editor's Annual Report, 2007–2008 (2008) (0)
Warrior of the Lord: Sergeant York as Man and Symbol@@@Sergeant York: An American Hero. (1985) (0)
Chapter 2. Remembrance, Contestation, Excavation: The Work of Memory in Oklahoma City, the Washita Battlefield, and the Tulsa Race Riot (2008) (0)
History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past Gary B. Nash Charlotte Crabtree Ross E. Dunn (1999) (0)
Review: Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post–9/11 Era, by Marita Sturken (2022) (0)
Becoming the Editor (2011) (0)
Mass Atrocity, Collective Memory, and the Law (review) (2012) (0)
At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture James Young (2001) (0)
A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775–1783. By Charles Royster. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979. xi + 452 pp. $19.50. (1982) (0)
“Time Capsules: History Goes Underground.” Outagamie County Historical Society, 330 East College Ave., Appleton, WI 54911 (1997) (0)
Living alongside the Holocaust (2020) (0)
David Chidester: An Appreciation (2018) (0)
WESTERN RELIGIOUS HISTORY (1983) (0)
Editor's Annual Report, 2011–2012 (2012) (0)
Middle Passage Exhibit (2003) (0)
An Open Letter to the National Park Service (2013) (0)
“The Rankins of Cherry Hill: Struggling with the Loss of Their World.” (2003) (0)
Shaping a heroic presencce: Iwo Jima in American memory (1993) (0)
“One Nation under God: The Church, the State, and the Louisiana Purchase.” (2004) (0)
Trauma and the Memory of Politics (review) (2005) (0)
Editor's Annual Report, 2009–2010 (2010) (0)
PRIZE FOR BEST ENGLISH LANGUAGE ESSAY What Makes a Memorial Museum? Understanding their Different Functions in a Modern World By Emily Vetne (2019) (0)
Editor's Annual Report, 2006–2007 (2007) (0)
Editor's Annual Report, 2008–2009 (2009) (0)
Who owns grief. Interview by James S. Russell. (2002) (0)
Holocaust: An American Understanding (2017) (0)
Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape (Savage) (2011) (0)
Editor's Annual Report, 2015–2016 (2016) (0)
Editor's Annual Report, 2010–2011 (2011) (0)

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