Professor Leo Marx died in March at the age of 102, thus severing the last tie to the founding generation of American Studies scholars. After serving in WWII, Marx took his PhD from Harvard’s new History of American Civilization program. There, he studied with and befriended many of the major figures in the new field, including Perry Miller (his dissertation adviser), F.O. Matthiessen, Bernard Bowron, and Henry Nash Smith. He went on to teach at the University of Minnesota and Amherst College, before settling at MIT, where he spent the last four decades of his career. He taught his last Read more