Lynn Dumenil, the Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History at Occidental College, will give a public lecture on “World War I and Representations of the Modern American Woman,” at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, March 2, in Denison University’s Higley Hall (100 Ridge Road). The lecture is presented by the Sharp Lecture Series in American History and the departments of history and women’s studies. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Dumenil is the author of “Freemasonry and American Culture,” “The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s,” and “Through Women’s Eyes: An American History,” to name a few. Currently, the book she is working on is, “Women, World War I, and the Emergence of Modern American Culture.” Dumenil began teaching at Occidental College in 1989 after she received a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. Dumenil’s teaching focus is on political, social and cultural history of America in the 20th century.

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CALENDAR LISTING: Denison University, Granville — Lynn Dumenil lecture “World War I and Representations of the Modern American Woman” at 4:30 p.m. on Mon., March 2, at Higley Hall room 105 (100 Ridge Road). Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Megan Threlkeld at threlkedm@denison.edu.

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