An American Tragedy: Kent State on the Page 
A panel discussion framing a new examination of the May 4, 1970 shootings 

Brian VanDeMark’s Kent State: An American Tragedy adds to the discourse around May 4, contributing guardsmen’s perspectives in a retelling of the May 4 shootings. VanDeMark, a historian at the United States Naval Academy, will participate in a panel discussion with Thomas M. Grace, a historian at Erie Community college, author of Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties, and one of the students wounded on May 4, and Gregory S. Wilson, a historian at the University of Akron and author of Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings. The discussion will be moderated by Kevin Adams with books by all the authors available for purchase at a signing following the panel. 

Presented by the May 4 Visitors Center and the History Department