Southeastern presents annual Veterans Day Lecture
Friday, October 29, 2021
by: Tonya Lowentritt
VETERANS DAY LECTURE SET - Historian and consultant for HBO, National Geographic and Sledgehammer Games Marty Morgan will present Southeastern Louisiana University’s Veterans Day Lecture Nov. 10, at 1 p.m. in the Student Union Theatre. Titled “Sentimentalizing D-Day: Rising above the Mythologized Narratives of June 6, 1944,” the lecture is free and open to the public.
HAMMOND – The History and Political Science Department at Southeastern Louisiana
University has scheduled the annual Veterans Day Lecture Wednesday, Nov. 10, at 1
p.m., in the Student Union Theatre. Historian and consultant for HBO, National Geographic
and Sledgehammer Games Marty Morgan will present “Sentimentalizing D-Day: Rising above
the Mythologized Narratives of June 6, 1944.” The event is free and open to the public.
“The memory of the D-Day invasion has become a patchwork of myths and legends
pulled together to titillate, romanticize and entertain,” said History and Political
Science Department Head Bill Robison. “It describes June 6, 1944 in sentimentalized
ways that distort the narrative to a substantial degree, leaving us a complicated
mess. But is it possible to cut through the noise by going back to basics, letting
original documents do the talking, and dismantling the mythologized narrative.”
For more information, contact the History and Political Science Department at
985-549-2109.