Kenneth W. Rendell, dealer in historical letters, documents and manuscripts, and historical artifacts,
and director of the Museum of World War II
Wednesday, April 30
5:30-7:00 p.m.
John Hay Library, Lownes Room
20 Prospect Street, Providence
Kenneth Rendell has been a dealer in historical letters, documents and manuscripts, and historical artifacts since 1959 with offices in New York and Boston. He has authored numerous articles and has written the two standard textbooks in the field, History Comes to Life and Forging History.
Rendell has been involved in every major archival appraisal and has won the Tax Court opinions for both the government and the taxpayers that have become the standards for the field. He has been a consultant to virtually every university in the country, the National Archives, the Library of Congress, as well as the FBI, CIA, IRS, Newsweek, CBS News, and many other media organizations. He has uncovered literally all of the major journalistic hoaxes of modern times from the Hitler diaries in 1983 to the Jack the Ripper diaries several years ago.
His primary personal interest has been preserving archives and artifacts from World War II, and his collection is now housed in the 10,000 sq. ft. Museum of World War II in Natick, MA. London’s Imperial War Museum describes his museum on its Web site as the best World War II museum in the world. His other major collecting interest is the American West, and he formed what is probably the most diverse collection of Western Americana. This is the basis of his most recently published book, The Western Pursuit of the American Dream.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the John Nicholas Brown Center at 401 863-1177 or publichumanities@brown.edu. We look forward to seeing you there!