Marilyn B. Young

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Marilyn B. Young
Born(1937-04-25)April 25, 1937
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
DiedFebruary 19, 2017(2017-02-19) (aged 79)
New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican

Marilyn B. Young (April 25, 1937 – February 19, 2017)

American foreign relations and professor of history at New York University
.

She graduated from

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, before moving to NYU in 1980.[4]

In 2000–01 she was awarded a

Berkshire Women's History Prize for The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990.[4] She was elected President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
in 2011.

Scholarly and political career

In the late 1960s, as part of her opposition to the American war in Vietnam, she was a founding member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars.[5] Many of her subsequent writings concerned this and following American wars. She recalled in her presidential address to the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations:

I find that I have spent most of my life as a teacher and scholar thinking and writing about war. I moved from war to war, from the War of 1898 and U.S. participation in the

Chinese civil war, to the Vietnam War, back to the Korean War, then further back to World War II and forward to the wars of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Initially, I wrote about all these as if war and peace were discrete: prewar, war, peace, or postwar. Over time, this progression of wars has looked to me less like a progression than a continuation: as if between one war and the next, the country was on hold.[6]

Of the

Operation Iraqi Freedom is Vietnam on crack cocaine. In less than two weeks a 30-year-old vocabulary is back: credibility gap, seek and destroy, hard to tell friend from foe, civilian interference in military affairs, the dominance of domestic politics, winning, or more often, losing hearts and minds."[7]

Young joined the faculty at NYU in 1980. Young founded the Women Studies Department at NYU and, from 1993 to 1996, she was the chairwoman of its history department.[2] Young was a co-director of the Tamiment Library's Center for the United States and the Cold War. She became president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 2011.[2]

While in graduate school she met and married Ernest P. Young, an historian of China described by a friend as her "early intellectual companion." They separated and then divorced in 1986. [8]

Selected publications

For a fuller list, see Rebecca Karl, "In Memoriam." [9]

Books

  • The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990. (Harper Collins 1991), .
  • with William G. Rosenberg, Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 1982), .
  • Women in China: Studies in Social Change and Feminism. (Center for Chinese Studies, 1973), .
  • The Rhetoric of Empire: America China Policy, 1895–1901. (Harvard University Press, 1968), .

Edited books

Articles

  • "The Korean War: Ambivalence on the Silver Screen," in The Korean War at Fifty: International Perspectives, edited by Mark F. Wilkinson (John Adams Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis, 2004).
  • "In the Combat Zone," reprinted in Hollywood and War: The Film Reader, edited by J. David Slocum (NY/London; Routledge, 2006).
  • "Two, Three, Many Vietnams," Cold War Studies, November 2006.
  • "The Vietnam Laugh Track," in David Ryan, ed. Iraq in Vietnam (London: Routledge, 2006)
  • "’Shared Victory,’ Korea, the U.S. and France," in The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, ed. Mark Atwood Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).
  • "The American Empire at War," in The Barbarization of Warfare, edited by George Kassimeris (London: Routledge/NY: NYU Press, 2006).
  • "Counterinsurgency, Now and Forever," in Gardner and Young, Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam
  • "Why Vietnam Still Matters," in The War That Never Ends, edited by John Ernst and David Anderson (University Press of Kentucky), 2007.

Notes

  1. ^ Christy Thornton; Stuart Schrader (February 24, 2017). "Marilyn Young (1937–2017)". Jacobin.
  2. ^ a b c Roberts, Sam. "Marilyn Young, Historian Who Challenged U.S. Foreign Policy, Dies at 79". New York Times. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  3. .
  4. ^ a b Faculty Profile New York University Department of History
  5. ^ Lanza (2017), pp. 82–83.
  6. .
  7. ^ quoted at Bill Moyers Journal (PBS) May 11, 2007 from Historians Reflect on the War in Iraq: A Roundtable (Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Memphis Tennessee, 2003).
  8. ^ Dudziak (2017).
  9. ^ Karl (2017).

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