Name: American Tragedy: Kent State on the Page a panel discussion framing a new examination of May 4
Start: 2024-09-27T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-27T12:00:00-04:00
Location: 137 Bowman Hall, Kent State University

American Tragedy: Kent State on the Page a panel discussion framing a new examination of May 4

Brian VanDeMark’s Kent State: An American Tragedy adds to the discourse around May 4, contributing guardsmen’s perspectives in a retelling of the May 4 shootings. VanDeMark, a historian at the United States Naval Academy, will participate in a panel discussion with Thomas M. Grace, a historian at Erie Community college, author of Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties, and one of the students wounded on May 4, and Gregory S. Wilson, a historian at the University of Akron and author of Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings. The discussion will be moderated by Kevin Adams with books by all the authors available for purchase at a signing and reception following the panel.
Although this event will not be broadcast live, it will be recorded and accessible to May 4 Visitors Center followers in the week following the talk.