Name Edward Linenthal | ||
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Edward linenthal
Edward Tabor ("Ed") Linenthal (1947) is an American academic who specializes in religious and American studies, and particularly memorials and other sacred spaces.
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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.
Linenthal is the author of four scholarly monographs, and editor-in-chief of The Journal of American History. 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)this is the topic of his Sacred Ground, an interest which led to an involvement with the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. He is a consultant with the National Park Service, and has worked on such memorials as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; his Preserving Memory (first published 1995) describes various controversies and debates pertaining to the planning and building of the museum.