UMass Amherst's Christian Appy to Present "Ellsberg's Mutiny: War and Resistance in the Age of Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers, and Watergate" December 7
Appy will speak in historic Shaw Hall as part of Mount Ida Campus Faculty Speaker Series
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Christian Appy, professor of history, will present “Ellsberg’s Mutiny: War and Resistance in the Age of Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers, and Watergate,” a talk for community members, Wednesday, December 7, at 4 p.m. as part of the UMass Amherst Mount Ida Campus Faculty Speaker Series.
Appy will discuss Daniel Ellsberg’s remarkable transformation from Cold War hawk to antiwar whistleblower. His 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.
Appy is currently working on an Ellsberg biography following the acquisition of Ellsberg’s papers by the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center at UMass Amherst in 2019. This trove of more than 500 boxes of material has inspired university courses, the Ellsberg Archive Project, and the 2021 international conference marking the 50th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers’ release. The university has launched the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy under Appy’s leadership
The talk will take place in the historic Shaw Hall mansion, commissioned in 1912 by Robert Gould Shaw II, first cousin of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the Civil War commander of the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry of African American soldiers.
The Mount Ida Campus Faculty Speaker Series serves to expose the Greater Boston constituency of the campus to faculty expertise at UMass Amherst, and features topics of interest to the broader campus community.
Registration for the talk, which is free and open to the public, can be completed via EventBrite or by calling 617-243-1119.