Wed 5/4 @ noon
Wed 5/4 @ 7PM
Pulitzer Prize-winning author/historian Jon Meacham has written numerous books about American history, the kind of accessible books ordinary people will actually read, not 1,000-page tomes, books that relate history to our own times. He’s written about Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt, and George H.W. Bush. He’s also wrote His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope; The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, a book that looks at the crises the U.S. has gone through in the past to put our current dark impulses in perspective; and Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation, co-written with country singer Tim McGraw.
Meacham is coming to northeast Ohio to be the keynote speaker for this year’s May 4 commemoration at noon on the Kent State Commons, remembering the lethal antiwar protest of May 4, 1970 when four students were killed and nine other people were wounded. He’ll also be the featured speaker in the evening for Kent State University’s Presidential Speaker Series. It’s free and open to the public, but tickets are required.
For more information and to order tickets, go to ksuevents.universitytickets.