Christian Appy

Christian Gerard Appy (born April 5, 1955) is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is widely known as a leading expert on the Vietnam War experience. The most recent of his three books on the subject is American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. It explores the war's impact on American politics, culture, and foreign policy from the 1950s to the Obama presidency.

Christian Appy
Born5 April 1955
Atlanta, Georgia
OccupationProfessor author
NationalityUnited States
SubjectVietnam War
Notable worksPatriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity

Biography

Appy was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1955. In 1964, his family moved to Westport, Connecticut, where he attended public school and graduated from Staples High School in 1973. At Amherst College, class of 1977, he majored in American Studies and wrote a prize-winning honors thesis on Appalachian coal miners. He received his Ph.D in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University in 1987.[1] His dissertation received the Ralph Henry Gabriel dissertation prize from the American Studies Association.[2] It went on to become his first book, Working Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam. Appy taught at Harvard and MIT before accepting a position in the history department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2004. His book Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides is widely assigned to college students studying the Vietnam War, due to its unique and nearly comprehensive view of those involved in the war. The book includes 135 oral histories drawn from 350 interviews conducted by Appy over the course of researching the book. Patriots won the 2004 Massachusetts Book Award for nonfiction.[3]

At the University of Massachusetts, Appy has received the Distinguished Teaching Award, the Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, and the Chancellor's Medal.[4] Professor Appy is married to Katherine Appy, and has two children and three stepchildren. He and his family live in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Works
  • Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-1966. University of Massachusetts Press. 2000. ISBN 978-1-5584-9218-9.
  • Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam. University of North Carolina Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8078-6011-3.
  • Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides. Penguin Publishing Group. 2004. ISBN 978-1-4406-2654-8.
  • Vietnam: The Definitive Oral History Told from All Sides, Ebury, 2006, ISBN 9780091910112
  • American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. Penguin Publishing Group. 2015. ISBN 978-0-698-19155-6.

References
  1. "Christian Appy - History - UMass Amherst". Umass.edu. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  2. "ASA Awards and Prizes - ASA". Theasa.net. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  3. "Mass Center for the Book Previous Winners". Massbook.org. Archived from the original on 11 August 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  4. "Christian Appy to Receive Chancellor's Medal at Distinguished Faculty Lecture". 2 March 2017.


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