Feinberg Series to Host Panel of Scholars, Activists, Including Daniel Ellsberg, on Vietnam Era Antiwar Movement

On Thursday, Dec. 1, the Feinberg Series presents a virtual panel on the Vietnam-era antiwar movement. Join historians, writers and activists, including Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, at 7 p.m. on Zoom for reflections on the most vibrant, diverse and sustained antiwar movement in U.S. history. What impact did it have on the conduct and conclusion of the war? Does it offer lessons for our own time?

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Moderated by filmmaker Judith Ehrlich (“The Boys Who Said NO!” and “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers”), the panel includes, along with Ellsberg (the former government official who turned against the war), Carolyn Eisenberg (an antiwar activist and historian of the Vietnam War), Nguyet Nguyen (a historian of the transnational Vietnamese antiwar movement), and W. D. Ehrhart (a Marine veteran of the Vietnam War who joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the War and became a poet and author).

This event is part of the yearlong Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series, Confronting Empire, which is exploring histories of U.S. imperialism and anti-imperialist resistance. The Feinberg Series is presented by the UMass Amherst Department of History in collaboration with the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy and more than three dozen university and community and university partners. Visit the Feinberg Series website for more information about the series.

This panel is free and open to the public, and a question and answer will follow. Audio and video recordings will be available on the Feinberg Series website and the History Department's YouTube. Spanish interpretation and closed captioning will be available.

For more information and to register: https://bit.ly/feinberg-dec1