Michael Flamm, Ph.D., of Ohio Wesleyan University will present "Death of a Dream: Tragedies of 1968 in History and Memory" at Bexley Public Library, 2411 E. Main St., Bexley, Ohio 43209.
On the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, Flamm will explore how that terrible event, the urban uprisings that followed, and the subsequent murder of Senator Robert Kennedy shaped and shadowed American politics and society in 1968 – and continue to do so today, 50 years later.
Flamm is a scholar of modern American political history who joined the faculty of Ohio Wesleyan University in 1998. At Ohio Wesleyan, he has received the Fraternity Council Faculty Member of the Year Award in 2000, the Bishop Francis Emner Kearns Teacher of the Year Award in 2006, and the University’s highest honor, the Bishop Herbert Welch Meritorious Teaching Award, in 2012.
As a Fulbright Scholar and Senior Specialist, Flamm also has taught at San Andrés University in Buenos Aires. He is the author or co-author of numerous articles and five books, including “In the Heat of the Summer: The New York Riots of 1964 and the War On Crime.”