2025 LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium
“This is a True War Story”
April 3, 2025
Dee J. Kelly Alumni & Visitors Center
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Keynote Speaker
Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations at Vassar College and the Director of the Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts
Professor Brigham is an internationally known historian and leading expert on the Vietnam War and postwar relations between the United States and Vietnam. He is the author or co-author of ten books, among them Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam (PublicAffairs, 2018); Is Iraq Another Vietnam? (PublicAffairs, 2006); and Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy (PublicAffairs, 1999), written with former secretary of defense, Robert S. McNamara and James G. Blight. He has earned research fellowships from the Rockefeller, Mellon, Ford, and Smith Richardson foundations as well as the National Endowment for Humanities. In 2019, the Alumnae/i Association of Vassar College presented Brigham with its Outstanding Faculty Award. In 2023, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations selected Brigham for the Peter L. Hahn Distinguished Service Award.
His memoir and history of the rippling effects of the Vietnam War on American families is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.
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