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Christian Appy is the author of three books about the Vietnam War and leads the The Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy at UMass Amherst, which promotes public understanding, scholarship and activism in support of compelling, realistic, democratic, and sustainable alternatives to militarism, authoritarianism, and environmental degradation. The Initiative was established in honor of American's most famous whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg. 

Appy is s now writing an Ellsberg biography with the working title "Ellsberg’s Mutiny: War and Resistance in the Age of Vietnam, The Pentagon Papers, and Nuclear Terror."

He has received the UMass Amherst Chancellor’s Medal, the Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award.

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Professor of History and Director of the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy

You can now sign up for "HISTORY 201- Imperial America: the United States and the World, 1898 to Present.'' This is a 4 credits class that is open to students of the 5 College Consortium and others. Click here to sign up for https://www.coursicle.com/umass/courses/HISTORY/201/

This class will be taught Christian G. Appy - a Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has received the Chancellor’s Medal, the Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award. He is the author of three books about the Vietnam War, including American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity (Viking, 2015) and Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides (Viking, 2003). He is currently working on a book about Daniel Ellsberg.

N.B. For more about enrolling for this class, contact Professor Christian G. Appy on 
appy@history.umass.edu or Meredith Pustell on 
undergrad@history.umass.edu

mperial America: USA and the World with Christian G. Appy at UMass Amherst

HISTORY 201 - Imperial America: USA and the World with Christian G. Appy at UMass Amherst

This interview was originally published on May 26, 2015. 

On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Appy, author of “American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity”, discusses growing up with a broad faith that America is always an indispensable and invincible force for good in the world – and the seeds of his disillusionment with Americanism.

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"America Does Bad Things for Good Reasons" - Christian Appy on RAI (1/5)

An OAH Lecture by Christian G. Appy, professor of history at the University of Massachusetts.
http://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/1919

This lecture was presented at Creighton University, sponsored by the university’s Henry W. Casper, SJ Associate Professorship in History, in February 2017. Recorded by Thomas Johnson III.

Christian G. Appy - Why the Vietnam War Still Matters

Chris Appy là giáo sư lịch sử tại Đại học Massachusetts Amherst và Harvard. Ông được biết đến rộng rãi như một chuyên gia hàng đầu về cuộc chiến Mỹ gây ra tại Việt Nam. Cuốn sách những người yêu nước của ông được tìm đọc rộng rãi bởi các sinh viên đại học đang nghiên cứu về Chiến tranh chống Mỹ ở Việt Nam bởi nó đem đến cái nhìn độc đáo và toàn diện về cuộc chiến. Chris Appy đã phỏng vấn 350 nhân vật ở cả Mỹ và Việt Nam để thực hiện cuốn sách. Ông cũng có quan hệ thân thiết với ông Daniel Ellsberg, người vào năm 1971 đã công bố hồ sơ 7,000 trang- được biết đến với cái tên Hồ sơ Lầu Năm Góc. Chris Appy trở thành Giám đốc Sáng kiến Ellsberg vì Hòa bình và Dân chủ tại Đại học Masachusetts sau khi đại học này mua lại các lưu trữ cá nhân của Ellsberg vào năm 2019.
Nhân dịp kỷ niệm ngày kết thúc chiến tranh Việt Nam, Talk Việt Nam có cuộc trò chuyện với Giáo sư Chris Appy về điều gì đã làm nên chiến thắng của người Việt Nam, và quan trọng hơn là thế hệ trẻ hai bên có thể đóng góp gì để hướng tới một tương lai hợp tác vì hòa bình và phát triển giữa hai nước.

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