The Antiwar Movement We’re Not Supposed to Know About
Ephrata Public LibraryThursday, Sep. 23, 6:30 p.m.
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Presented by H. Bruce Franklin, Ph.D.
The true history of the movement against America's war in Vietnam is crucial to understand the history of that war itself. It would also help us finding a way out of our current endless wars. But our society's memory of the antiwar movement today consists mainly of fantasies, myths, and falsification. Above all we need to unearth the crucial roles of veterans and active duty service people in leading that movement and ending the war.
One of America's leading cultural historians, H. Bruce Franklin is the author or editor of nineteen books and more than 300 articles on culture and history published in more than a hundred major magazines and newspapers, academic journals, and reference works. He has given over five hundred addresses on college campuses, on radio and TV shows, and at academic conferences, museums, and libraries, and he has participated in making four films. He has taught at Stanford University, Johns Hopkins, Wesleyan, and Yale and currently is the John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University in Newark. Before becoming an academic, Franklin worked in factories, was a tugboat mate and deckhand, and flew for three years in the United States Air Force as a Strategic Air Command navigator and intelligence officer.
Franklin has published continually on the history and literature of the Vietnam War since 1966, when he became widely known for his activist opposition to the war. His pioneering course on the war and his book "M.I.A. Or Mythmaking in America" have had a major national impact, and he is co-editor of the widely-adopted history text "Vietnam and America: A Documented History." "Vietnam and Other American Fantasies" offers a sweeping vision of American culture into the 21st century.
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