Historian Fredrik Logevall, the author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Vietnam War, will be at the UO May 14 to talk about the war and its place in American history.

Logevall will discuss “The Meaning of the Vietnam War” at 7 p.m. in Room 175 of the Knight Law Center. The Wednesday talk is part of the Wayne Morse Legacy Series and is free and open to the public.

"America's war in Vietnam was a crucial turning point for the country and coincided with social and economic upheavals,” said Margaret Hallock, director of the Wayne Morse Center. “Fredrik Logevall's brilliant research and analysis of the war adds a historical perspective to our lecture series examining the ongoing echoes of the Vietnam era.”

Logevall won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for history with his book "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam," which details the French war in Vietnam. He is also the author of "Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam," which chronicles the escalation of American involvement in Vietnam in the early 1960s.

An alumnus of the University of Oregon, Logevall is the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, where he also serves as vice provost for international affairs and director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

The Wayne Morse Legacy Series commemorates Morse's famous dissent to the Vietnam War and examines the relevance of his principles to current issues of national security and military affairs. For more information on the series and a complete list of events, visit waynemorsecenter.uoregon.edu.

The series is sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, Oregon Historical Society and World Affairs Council of Oregon. Cosponsors for this event include the UO, Savage Endowment for International Relations and Peace, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Department of History, University Housing, KLCC and ACLU of Oregon.