CANCELLED: UMass Amherst Mount Ida Campus Faculty Speaker Series: Ellsberg's Mutiny - War and Resistance in the Age of Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers and Watergate.

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Join us as UMass Amherst historian Christian Appy discusses Daniel Ellsberg’s remarkable transformation from Cold War hawk to antiwar whistleblower.  This lecture will span the decades from 1971, when Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times and 18 other newspapers, to today. At age 91, Ellsberg is still a dedicated champion of peace, nuclear disarmament, and nonviolent democratic activism. UMass Amherst acquired Ellsberg’s papers in 2019.
Christian Appy received his BA from Amherst College and his PhD from Harvard University (both in American Studies). He is best known for his books on the Vietnam War: a social history of American combat soldiers; a wide-ranging oral history from multiple perspectives (including accounts of Vietnamese and American combatants, policymakers, antiwar activists, journalists, etc.); and a history of the war’s impact on American national identity, culture, and foreign policy from the 1950s through the Obama administration.