University of Minnesota (West Bank) - Elmer L. Andersen Library

Free and open to the public. Professor Lowenthal's talk will deal with the causes and consequences of a loss of faith in the future, which has eroded global confidence over the last 30 or 40 years, and its implications for the Enlightenment sense of progress, social and ecological sustainability, and ... (more)concern for both biological and cultural posterity.

Free and open to the public. The University of Minnesota Libraries and the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest invite you to celebrate the recent release of the Max Lowenthal Papers at the University Archives. Please join us for a presentation and conversation about this Minneapolis native ... (more)and University of Minnesota alumnus. Max Lowenthal was a lifelong defender of civil liberties and a prolific writer whose papers include correspondence relating to his 1950 expose of the abuses of power in J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, his work on railroad bankruptcies and sedition laws, and his key role behind the Truman administration's recognition of Israel.