‘Place Matters: Domestic Regionalism, The American South, and The Vietnam War’
Distinguished Professor of History, Joseph “Andy” Fry on August 26, 2013.
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Dr. Joseph A Fry, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, opens the Contemporary History Institutes Spring Semester speakers series on Thursday, Jan. 14, at 4:30 p.m. in Baker 240, focusing on how place matters in how Americans have responded to and sought to influence U.S. foreign policy.
Domestic regional influence on U.S. foreign relations was especially apparent in the American South’s role in the Vietnam War. From the general public to soldiers, college students, and crucially placed political leaders, Dixie supported the war more strongly and longer than any other section of the country.
Joseph A. (Andy) Fry is a distinguished professor of history emeritus at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and his B.A. from Davis and Elkins College. Fry has published five books: Henry S. Sanford: Diplomacy and Business in Nineteenth Century America (1982); John Tyler Morgan and the Search for Southern Autonomy (1992; Dixie Looks Abroad: The South and U.S. Foreign Relations, 1789-1973 (2002); Debating Vietnam: Fulbright, Stennis, and Their Senate Hearings (2006); and The American South and the Vietnam War: Belligerence, Protest, and Agony in Dixie (2015). He has published articles in Diplomatic History, the Pacific Historical Review, and various other journals and collections. He is the series editor for Biographies in American Foreign Policy published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. Fry’s current research focuses on Lincoln, Seward, and U.S. foreign relations in the 1860s.
This event is free and open to the public.
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