American historian and author Daniel Immerwahr to speak at UWRF

American historian and author Daniel Immerwahr to speak at UW-River Falls

Aug. 25, 2026 — The Walker D. and Helen Bryant Wyman Speaker Series will present featured speaker Daniel Immerwahr on Thursday, Sept. 10, at 4 p.m. at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls in the Kinnickinnic River Theater in the University Center, 501 Wild Rose Ave. Immerwahr will deliver a talk titled “Donald Trump and the Collapse of U.S. Power.” The event is free and open to the public.

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Immerwahr is the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University, where he teaches U.S. and global history. He is also a contributing writer at The New Yorker. His first book, "Thinking Small," offers a critical account of the United States' pursuit of grassroots development at home and abroad in the middle of the 20th century. His second, the bestselling "How to Hide an Empire," is a narrative history of the United States and its overseas territory included in the story.

A reception with light refreshments will begin at 3:30 p.m. outside the theater.

For more information, contact Wyman Committee Chair Ryan Fischer at john.ryan.fischer@uwrf.edu.

Photo: Daniel Immerwahr. Contributed photo.