Friday Forum: Mark P. Bradley, Alfred W. McCoy, and Monica Kim

The Forever Wars in Asia: A Roundtable Discussion on Marilyn B. Young and American Intervention Overseas

Mark Philip Bradley
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of History
University of Chicago

Alfred W. McCoy
Harrington Professor of History
UW-Madison

Monica Kim
William Appleman Williams & David G. And Marion S. Meissner Chair in US International and Diplomatic History
Associate Professor of History
UW-Madison

The constancy of American war, and its paradoxical erasure in U.S. politics and culture, were central concerns of Marilyn Young, the preeminent historian of war’s place in modern U.S. history. This roundtable on Making the Forever War, a new collection of Young’s most important writings, will explore how endless war came about, the nature of its deadly consequences, and how it became embedded and invisible for most Americans.

This lecture is free and open to the public.