Join author and professor John M. Kinder for a book talk about his book, Paying with Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran.
Paying with Their Bodies traces the complicated, intertwined histories of war and disability in modern America. He centers disabled veterans in his telling of the American war story, showing a different side of global conflict over the last century.
Event Details
Date: Sunday November 9, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
This event is FREE for Museum Members and is included with Museum admission.
About the Author
Professor John Kinder is a historian of war and society at Oklahoma State University, where he studies the effects of war and violence on American society. His first book, Paying with Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2015. Since then he has written or co-edited three books: Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History (2022); World War Zoos: Humans and Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict of the Modern Age (2025); and the forthcoming They Are Dead and Yet They Live: Civil War Memories in a Polarized America, which will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in February 2026. He is currently working on several books, including a true crime account of a murder committed by a pair of AWOL sailors in World War II Mississippi.
