Contemporary policymakers including Neville Chamberlains appeasement policies and the vietnam war. Southern Methodist University hosted this event. It is about 80 minutes. Professor log host my main purpose is to introduce you to professor Fred Logevall a professor of history at cornell university. And the vice provost for International Affairs. He is those things but much more. Those further attributes are the reasons why youre here tonight, here to listen to one of the truly great minds working the field of history today. Let me be more specific when i call fred one of the truly great historians of our day. He is in my opinion and i am biased but i have the microphone nothing less than a foremost historian of vietnam working in the country today. The anon, of course, th vietn am that word which has come to mean so much in american society. It means a war, an era, a period when the United States was perhaps ripped apart at the seams internally more than any other time in recent memory
Here to listen to one of the truly great minds working the field of history today. Let me be more specific when i call fred one of the truly great historians of our day. He is in my opinion and i am biased but i have the microphone nothing less than a foremost historian of vietnam working in the country today. Vietnam, of course, vietnam that word which has come to mean so much in american society. It means a war, an era, a period when the United States was perhaps ripped apart at the seams internally more than any other time in recent memory. It is a moment and bloodshed seemed endemic. Vietnam looms large over the field of american contemporary history. There are three basic types of american historians. Those who study the civil war. Those who study the vietnam war. And then there is everybody else. To be at the peak of one of these Three Pinnacles i think is no mean thing and no small feat. Let me tell you why i think fred is there. Because he asks and answers not only the question
Party to the 1938 agreement, americans would access over munich from that day to the present. For over seven decades, munich and appeasement would be among the dirtiest words in the american political lexicon. They are really political four letter words. To americans, the terms are synonymous with weakness implying a craven willingness to barter away a nation possible vital interests for empty promises. But certainly, in the minds of most historians, munich was a major mistake. Even one that, in the context of its time, had a certain logic. There has been a swing in historical interpretations in this regard, at least to some degree, looking at the context and the poor set of choices that chamberlain in particular had. Still, the take away for most later observers and historians was that appeasement of a highly wound up and heavily armed totalitarian state, in the context of a relatively firm and articulated continual equilibrium of power, was likely to upset the balance and make furthe
Introduce you to professor Fred Logevall, a professor of history at Cornell University and the vice provost for International Affairs. He is those things but much more. Those further attributes are the reasons why youre here tonight, here to listen to one of the truly great minds working the field of history today. Let me be more specific when i call fred one of the truly great historians of our day. He is in my opinion and i am biased but i have the microphone nothing less than the foremost historian of vietnam working in the country today. Vietnam, of course, vietnam that word which has come to mean so much in american society. It means a war, an era, a period when the United States was perhaps ripped apart at the seams internally more than any other time in recent memory. It is a moment in global history when violence and bloodshed seemed endemic. Vietnam looms large over the field of american contemporary history. There are three basic types of american historians. Those who study
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