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The Contested American Past

2025 Birchler Lecture: Dr. Andrew Hartman, Illinois State University

The UW-L Departments of History, English, and Philosophy -- along with the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecture Series and the Allan B. Birchler Fund -- present the 2025 Allen B. Birchler Memorial Lecture in the Humanities: "The Contested American Past" by Dr. Andrew Hartman, Professor of History at Illinois State University. Lecture 5-6PM, questions & book signing to follow.

"In the late twentieth-century United States, Americans took an extraordinary interest in the nation’s past. But they fervently disagreed about how it should be represented. In short, history wars gripped the nation. 

This division in how Americans saw the American past played out in a number of high profile cases, including controversies over the National History Standards and the Smithsonian's attempts to display the Enola Gay."

Andrew Hartman is a professor of history at Illinois State University focusing on U.S. intellectual history. He is the author of Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School (2008) and A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars (2015).

https://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/andrew-hartman/

When

  • 5 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26

Where

Cameron Hall of Nations, 1300 Centennial Hall

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University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Centennial Hall

Contact

For questions about this event or to request disability accommodations , contact Amy Ticknor at 608.785.8350 or aticknor@uwlax.edu.

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