Rate My Professor Christian Appy

Christian G. Appy is a Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he also serves as Director of the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy. He holds a BA in American Studies from Amherst College and a PhD in American Studies from Harvard University. Appy's academic interests center on the Vietnam War, U.S. foreign policy, twentieth- and twenty-first-century U.S. history, and nuclear weapons. His seminal works include Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam (University of North Carolina Press, 1993), an examination of the social history of American combat soldiers; Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides (Viking, 2003), a comprehensive oral history incorporating perspectives from Vietnamese and American combatants, policymakers, antiwar activists, and journalists, which received the Massachusetts Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2004; American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity (Viking, 2015), analyzing the war's enduring impact on American culture, identity, and foreign policy from the 1950s through the Obama era; and he edited Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-1966 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000).