Cancelled/The Big Read 2017 "America in Vietnam"

The Big Read features Author and professor David F. Schmitz as he examines why the United States was in Vietnam and the state of the war when Tim O'Brien fought. In the process Schmitz will place O'Brien's The Things They Carried in its historical context to illuminate some of the key themes in the work. David Schmitz is a Whitman College professor of history and a widely published author on the Vietnam era. He teaches The Things They Carried at Whitman and is an articulate and entertaining presenter.