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David Steigerwald will explore how Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral in 1968 embodied and refracted many of the deep tensions streaming through American life in the Sixties. In partnership with DACO.
David Steigerwald, a Professor of History at The Ohio State University, will explore how Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral in 1968 embodied and refracted many of the deep tensions streaming through American life in the Sixties, and marked the last death of the New Deal-Democratic Party coalition. This program is in partnership with the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio as part of the current exhibition MOD: Visual, Social, Cultural, Renaissance Of The 1960s, June 1- August 25.
Speaker Bio
David Steigerwald is a Professor of History at Ohio State University, where he directs the History Department’s WWII program and has taught undergraduate courses in The Sixties for three decades. Among his books are The Sixties and the End of Modern America (New York, 1995) and Debating the Sixties: Liberal, Conservative, and Radical Perspectives, co-authored with Bexley’s own Michael Flamm. He is finishing a book on alienation in postwar-WWII America, a central socio-cultural element in the creation of “The Sixties.” With this talk he is launching on a new project on Robert Kennedy and America at a vital crossroads.
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Bexley Public Library was founded in 1924 and first housed in Bexley High School, now Montrose Elementary School. The present building opened in 1929 and was designed by architects O.C. Miller and R.R. Reeves who drew upon French and Italian architecture from the 17th century for the design.
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