Marilyn Young
Professor of History
Ph.D. 1963 (history), M.A. 1958 (history), Harvard; B.A. 1957 (history), Vassar College
Office: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Building, Room 605
Phone: 212.998.8610
Email: marilyn.young@nyu.edu
Research/Interests: U.S. foreign relations; U.S.-East Asian relations; Third World women and gender.
Books:
The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990, HarperCollins, 1991. Recently translated into Greek and Italian.
Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the 20th century (with William Rosenberg), Oxford University Press, 1980.
Rhetoric of Empire: American China Policy, 1895-1901, Harvard University Press, 1969.
Edited Books:
Bombing Civilians: a 20th century history, with Y. Tanaka (The New Press, 2009).
Making Sense of the Vietnam War, with Mark Bradley (Oxford University Press, 2008). Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam (with Lloyd Gardner), The New Press, 2007.
The New American Empire (with Lloyd Gardner), The New Press, 2005.
The Vietnam War: A History in Documents (with Tom Grunfeld and John Fitzgerald), OUP, 2003. Companion to the Vietnam War (with Robert Buzzanco) Blackwell, 2002.
Human Rights and Revolutions, edited with Lynn Hunt and Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).
Reporting Vietnam:American Journalism, 1959-1975, two volumes, Library of American, 1998; Editorial Committee.
Vietnam and America (with Marvin Gettleman, Jane Franklin and Bruce Franklin), Grove Press, 1985; rev. edition Anchor Books, 1995.
Promissory Notes: Women and the Transition to Socialism (with Rayna Rapp and Sonia Kruks), Monthly Review Press, 1983.
American Expansionism: the Critical Issues, Little Brown, 1973, edited collection