Visiting Professor David Krugler will give a lecture titled "Remembrance of 100th anniversary of the Will Brown Lynching in Omaha" on Thursday, September 26, 2019 from 6-7:30 pm in Andrews Hall, Bailey Library.
In his lecture, David Krugler will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Will Brown lynching in Omaha, which took place on September 28, 1919. The murder of Brown, an African American laborer, by a white mob was part of a wave of anti-black violence sweeping the United States after World War I. The presentation will document how Will Brown was framed for a crime he didn't commit, describe the failed efforts of authorities to bring his murderers to justice, and explain how African Americans in Omaha took measures to defend themselves against further mob violence.
David Krugler is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin—Platteville, where he has taught since 1997. He has a B.A. from Creighton University and a M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A historian of the modern United States, he has published books on many topics including Cold War propaganda, nuclear warfare, and racial conflict in the United States. Krugler is the author of The Voice of America and the Domestic Propaganda Battles, 1945-1953 (University of Missouri Press, 2000); This Is Only a Test: How Washington, D.C., Prepared for Nuclear War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006); and 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back (Cambridge University Press, 2014). He is also editor of The Cold War: Core Documents (Ashbrook Press, 2018). Krugler frequently serves as a faculty leader of teacher seminars in the Teaching American History program administered by the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University. He is the past recipient of research grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Organization of American Historians, the White House Historical Association, and the University of Wisconsin System Institute on Race and Ethnicity. He appeared in the National Geographic Channel documentary American Doomsday in 2010. In Spring 2011, he was a fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. A novelist as well, Krugler has written two historical spy thrillers: The Dead Don’t Bleed (2016) and Rip the Angels from Heaven (2018), both published by Pegasus Crime.
For more informtion, please contact James Garza at jgarza2@unl.edu
