Edward Linenthal

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Edward Linenthal
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Linenthal at the National Archives, June 2016
Born (1947-11-06) November 6, 1947 (age 73)
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Edward Tabor ("Ed") Linenthal (born 1947) is an American academic who specializes in religious and American studies, and particularly memorials and other sacred spaces.

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Linenthal received his A.B. from Western Michigan University in 1969, [1] 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.

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, 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 . [2] 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 [3] )--this is the topic of his Sacred Ground, an interest which led to an involvement with the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. [4] [5] He is a consultant with the National Park Service, and has worked on such memorials as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; [6] his Preserving Memory (first published 1995) describes various controversies and debates pertaining to the planning and building of the museum. [7] [8]

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