John E. Bodnar is currently Chancellor's Professor of History at Indiana University. His scholarly and teaching interests focus on modern U.S. history with a special interest in the relationship between politics and culture. His publications include The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America (1985); Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century(1992); Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film (2003); and "'Saving Private Ryan' and Postwar Memory" (American Historical Review 106, June 2001).

Lecture topics:

• The American Remembrance of World War II

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