{"id":19960,"date":"2013-03-15T15:11:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T19:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=19960"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:43:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:43:14","slug":"controversy-in-public-history-to-be-focus-of-wright-state-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/03\/15\/controversy-in-public-history-to-be-focus-of-wright-state-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversy in public history to be focus of Wright State symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The senior curator of aeronautics for the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Air and Space Museum will highlight a symposium at Wright State University titled Wright in Your Own Backyard: Exploring and Presenting Controversy in Public History.<a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/03\/15\/controversy-in-public-history-to-be-focus-of-wright-state-symposium\/controversy-in-public-history-to-be-focus-of-wright-state-symposium\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19962\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19962\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2013\/03\/Controversy-in-public-history-to-be-focus-of-Wright-State-symposium-260x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom Crouch will be keynote speaker at the Public History Graduate Symposium, to be held Friday, March 22.<\/p>\n<p>Crouch has titled his talk Public History and the Culture Wars: Some Thoughts from a Veteran.\u00a0It will include reflections on his close personal involvement with controversial exhibitions such as <em>A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and<\/em> <em>the U.S. Constitution <\/em>and <em>Legend, Memory and the Great War in the Air<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Crouch has written or edited 12 books, and is a respected expert on the history of aviation and flight technology, specifically on the lives and careers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, inventors of the first powered aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The daylong symposium also features sessions that include The Enola Gay Controversy, Dillinger\u2019s Dayton Love and The Black Hills and the Fort Laramie Treaty Controversy: Mount Rushmore and the Ownership of the Black Hills.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium, to be held in the Endeavour Room of the Student Union, begins with registration at 8:15 a.m. and runs through 4:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public, but those who plan to attend are asked to RSVP by March 18 to Sam Mikell at mikell.2@wright.edu or the Wright State University Archives at (937) 775-2092.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The senior curator of aeronautics for the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National 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