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2016-2020

“On Julian Assange,” RT America (International TV), September 7, 2016.

VIETNAM AND OTHER AMERICAN FANTASIES. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. x1v+256 pages. Paperback, 2001. [Spanish edition: VIETNAM Y LAS FANTASIAS NORTEAMERICANAS. Translated by Mario Iribarren. Introduction by Pablo Pozzi. Buenos Aires: Final Abierto, 2008. 382 pages. 2nd Edition, Introduction by Eduardo Grüner. Buenos Aires: Final Abierto, 2012. 374 pages.] [Cuban edition, Introduction by Jorge Hernández Martínez. Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2017. 317 pages.]

“Vietnam and Other American Fantasies,” Cuba Network in Defense of Humanity, February 20, 2017.

“From Realism to Virtual Reality,” WhoWhatWhy, April 13, 2017.

“Vietnam and Other American Fantasies,” Presentation of Cuban edition of Vietnam and Other American Fantasies, Havana Book Fair, February 10, 2017.

WAR STARS: THE SUPERWEAPON AND THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. x+256 pages. Paperback edition, 1990. Revised and expanded edition, Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xii+280 pages. [WAR STARS: GUERRA, CIENCIA FICCIÓN Y HEGEMONÍA IMPERIAL. (Spanish edition.) Translated by Mario Iribarren. Introduction by Andrés Criscaut. Buenos Aires: Final Abierto, 2011. 462 pages.] [Japanese edition, Translated by Nobuo Kamioka (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2011.] [Cuban edition, forthcoming, 2018, Instituto Cubano del Libro.]

2011-2015

Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written By Himself: A New Critical Edition by Angela Y. Davis. African American Review, Vol. 44, Numbers 1-2, Spring/Summer 2011. 298-300.

"The Most Important Fish in the Sea," Saltwater Anglers of Bergen County, February 15, 2011.

Invited Testimony on HB1142, Environment Committee, Maryland House of Delegates, March 16, 2011.

“The Case of Stanford,” “Academic Freedom and the 1960s” Conference, NYU, April 1, 2011.

Keynote, Nor’east.Com Fishing Seminar Series, Oakdale, New York, April 9, 2011.

“Billy Budd: A Tale of Four Centuries” in Demands of the Dead: Executions, Storytelling, and Activism in the United States,, Ed. Katy Ryan (University of Iowa Press, 2012). 113-134.

“The Flight of the Young Chicken-Hawk: How Mitt Romney Dodged the Draft,” Counterpunch, Vol. 19, No. 8, April 16-30, 2012. 1-2. http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/07/how-mitt-dodged-the-draft/

“How America’s Fictions of Future War Have Changed the World” in Future Wars: The Anticipations and the Fears. Ed. David Seed. (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012). 32-49.

“Menhaden: The Most Important Fish in the Bay,” Documentary film based on The Most Important Fish in the Sea, including interview with H. Bruce Franklin. LinkTV: Earth Focus Episode 40, May 29, 2012. http://news1.linktv.org/videos/menhaden-the-most-important-fish-in-the-bay

“Menhaden Catch Limits Vital to Ecosystem, Economy,” Asbury Park Press, December 7, 2012. http://www.app.com/article/20121208/NJOPINION03/312080012/FRANKLIN-Menhaden-catch-limits-vital-ecosystem-economy?odyssey=nav%7Chead&nclick_check=1

“Missing in Action in the 21st Century” in Four Decades On: Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War. Ed. Scott Laderman and Edwin Martini (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013). 259-296.

(“Missing in Action in the 21st Century,” excerpted, The Veteran, Spring 2013 (Vol. 43, Number 1), 8-9.)

(“Komputery z Fantastyki,” [Polish translation of “Computers in Fiction”], Science Translations, May 2013). http://cheap.de/science/komputery-z-fantastyki

“Vietnam, Star Trek, and the Real Future” in Star Trek and History. Ed. Nancy Reagin. (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2013). 87-108.

“The Weapons of Science Fiction and the Pax Americana,” Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, March 28, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxzJfMEZcO0

Interview about Assata Shakur, NBC Channel 4 News, May 2, 2013.

“Wars and the Environment,” Norfolk Academy, Virginia, November 7, 2013.

Chair, “Keywords for American Studies, War, and Peace,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 23, 2013.

“New World Imaginations and Deceptions: Greg Grandin’s The Empire of Necessity,” Los Angeles Review of Books, January 12, 2014. http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/new-world-imaginations-deceptions

"Reimaging Vietnam," Yellow Peril! A Critical Archive of Images, Documents, Essays, ed. John Kuo, Wei Tchen, and Dylan Yeats (NY: Asian/Pacific/American Institute and Verso Press, 2014). 313-316.

“American Memory of the Vietnam War in the Epoch of the Forever War,” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 16, 2014. http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/americas-memory-vietnam-war-epoch-forever-war

“Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and American Militarism; Or, How We Lost World War II,” Review essay on Paul Ham’s, Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath, Los Angeles Review of Books, August 3, 2014. http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/hiroshima-nagasaki-american-militarism

“Maximum Security Nation,” Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, January 19, 2014.

"Menhaden Fisheries--The Most Valuable Fish in the Sea?", 19th Annual Summit on Environmental Law & Policy, Tulane Law School, February 21, 2014.

"The Final Solution: American Superweapons," "Yellow Peril: Detoxifying Fear," The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, March 7, 2014.

“Where Have All the Weakfish Gone and What Can We Do To Bring Them Back,” Hudson River Fishermen’s Association, Ridgefield Park, NJ, March 11, 2014.

“American Memory of the Vietnam War in the Epoch of the Forever War,” Keynote Address, A3M Reunion, Stanford/Palo Alto, May 17, 2014.

“Our Collapsing Marine Ecology,” Manasquan Fishing Club, Manasquan, NJ, June 6, 2014.

“The Collapse of the Chesapeake Bay and the Disappearance of Weakfish,” Saltwater Anglers of Bergen County, June 17, 2014.

Foreword to Passing Time by W. D. Ehrhart. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995. (Japanese translation forthcoming, Toyko: Tosui-Shobo, 2015.)

“Pay Per Vote: The Wave of the Future,” Counterpunch, January 25, 2015. http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/26/pay-per-vote-the-wave-of-the-future

Japanese Translation of Foreword to W. D. Ehrhart’s Passing Time, Tokyo: Tosui-shobo, 2015.

“Of Television in the 1960s: Star Trek, Vietnam, and the Transformation of America,” Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek, ed. Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 13-24.

“Prison Literature, Then and Now,” American Book Review, Vol. 36, #3, March/April 2015.

“American Prisons: The Caging of Human Rights,” Mehr News Agency (Tehran), July 5, 2015.

“Menhaden and the Need for Ecosystem Management,” Underwater Naturalist, Vol. 36, Fall 2015, 8-15.

2006-2010

"Missing in Action in the 21st Century" in Blackwell Companion to the Vietnam War. Ed. Marilyn Young and Robert Buzzanco. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002, 2006. 317-332.

"The World in a Prison: Beethoven's Fidelio," Fidelio Program, San Francisco Opera 2005-2006 Season. San Francisco, 2005. xvi-xviii.

"Net Losses," Mother Jones, Vol. 31, No. 2, March-April 2006, 54-57. http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/229/net-losses.html

("Net Losses" reprinted as cover story, Weeklyplanet.com, April 19, 2006: http://www.weeklyplanet.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A30156;
also reprinted on TheFishingLine,com, March 2006:

"Net Losses," "Mother Jones on the Air," National Public Radio, March 10, 2006. http://www.thefishingline.com/history_of_bunker.htm

"On Menhaden," "Marketplace” with Kai Ryssdal, National Public Radio, April 17, 2006.http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2006/04/17/PM200604176.html

"On Menhaden," "Shining Light into Darkness," KOOP (San Antonio), May 18, 2006.

"The Most Important Fish in the Chesapeake--and America," The Mariner's Museum, Newport News, VA, June 14, 2006.

"Net Losses" (Mother Jones, April/May 2006) adapted as PBS NOW show with David Brancaccio, July 21, 2006.http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/229/net-losses.html http://www-tc.pbs.org/now/rss/media/NOW-229.mp3?mii=1&play

"On George Jackson," KAZU (Pacific Grove, CA), August 25, 2006.

"From Vietnam to Iraq," WORT (Madison, WI), December 19, 2006.

"The Inside Stories of the Global American Prison," American Literature Section, Modern Language Association Convention, December 28, 2006.

HERMAN MELVILLE'S THE CONFIDENCE-MAN: HIS MASQUERADE. Annotated edition with critical introduction. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967. xxxiv+355 pages. Revised edition with Preface by Daniel Handler. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2007. xxxiii+355 pages.

THE MOST IMPORTANT FISH IN THE SEA: MENHADEN AND AMERICA. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2007. vii+268 pages. Audible Book, 2007. Paperback, 2008.

CRASH COURSE: THE AMERICAN CENTURY AND THE FOREVER WAR. Manuscript finished.

("From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars" reprinted in Composing Knowledge, Ed. Rolf Norgaard. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007. 756-773.)

"'Vietnam' in the New American Century," The United States and the Legacy of the Vietnam War (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). 33-50.

"Burning Illusions: The Napalm Campaign" in Against the Vietnam War (Revised edition) Ed. Mary Susannah Robbins. Lanham, MD: Rowman, Littlefield, 2007. 62-75.

"The Most Important Fish in the Ocean State," Providence Journal, June 4, 2007.

"Voices from Prison," "What's the Word" (Modern Language Association Radio Program), National Public Radio, March 2007; available at www.mla.org.

Moderator, “Prison Literature,” New England PEN, Boston, April 19, 2007; broadcast live on WGBH; podcast http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=3456

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” Save the Bay, Providence, RI, April 20, 2007.

On The Most Important Fish in the Sea: “Ecologic,” WBAI, April 17, 2007; “Law and Disorder,” WBAI, April 18, 2007; WORT, Madison, WI, May 8; “Steal This Radio,” podcast, May 11; Maryland Saltwater Sportfishing Association, Cambridge, May 17; WSCL, Delmarva Public Radio, May 18; WCTR, Chesterton, MD, May 18; WUSB, Stony Brook, NY, May 21; East Carolina Radio, May 30; Manasquan Fishing Club, June 1; New Jersey Historical Society, June 6; KPFA, Berkeley, June 15; WAMU, Washington, DC, June 29; Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, June 29; Raritan Bay Anglers Club, August 8; Saltwater Anglers of Bergen County, September 18; Teaneck Library, October 9, 2007; WTKF (NC), January 21, 2008.

Commencement Address, Brooklyn Friends School, 2007.

“Save the Ugly Little Fish,” National Public Radio, “Marketplace, Morning Report,” June 5, 2007.http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/06/05/AM200706052.html

"The Vietnam War Today," "Shining Light into Darkness," KOOP (San Antonio), September 10, 2007.

"An Evening with Bruce Franklin," NARA Theater, Norfolk, VA, September 20, 2007.

"The Most Important Fish in the Chesapeake," Virginia Wesleyan College, September 21, 2007.

"Scholar/Activist, Activist/Scholar: The Life and Work of H. Bruce Franklin," Respondent, American Studies Association, Philadelphia, October 12, 2007.

THE MOST IMPORTANT FISH IN THE SEA: MENHADEN AND AMERICA. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2007. vii+268 pages. Audible Book, 2007. Paperback, 2008.

(“From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America’s Wars,” reprinted in An Introduction to Reading, Research and Writing at the University of Washington (New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2008.)

(“Can Vietnam Awaken Us Again? Teaching the Literature of the Vietnam War,” reprinted in Controversies in the Classroom, Ed. Joseph Entin, Robert G. Rosen, and Leonard Vogt. New York: Teachers College Press, 2008. 22-28.)

"Teaching 'Vietnam' as Matrix for the ‘War on Terror,’" in Peace Not Terror. Ed. Mary Susannah Robbins. Lanham, MD: Rowman, Littlefield, 2008. 25-38.

"Can the Penitentiary Teach the Academy How to Read?" PMLA, May 2008 (Vol. 123, No. 3), 643-649.

Review of The Last Fish Tale, by Mark Kurlansky. Book World, Washington Post, August 3, 2008.

“The Inside Stories of the Global American Prison,” Texas Studies in Language and Literature, 50 (Fall 2008). 235-242. [Reprinted in Liberation Literature Anthology, Summer 2009.]

“Seeing Through the American Prison,” Radical Teacher, Number 83 (Winter 2008), 25.

"What Is Science Fiction--And How It Grew" in Reading Science Fiction, Ed. James Gunn, Marlene Barr, and Matthew Candelaria (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 23-32.

p>On The Most Important Fish in the Sea: “Ecologic,” WBAI, April 17, 2007; “Law and Disorder,” WBAI, April 18, 2007; WORT, Madison, WI, May 8; “Steal This Radio,” podcast, May 11; Maryland Saltwater Sportfishing Association, Cambridge, May 17; WSCL, Delmarva Public Radio, May 18; WCTR, Chesterton, MD, May 18; WUSB, Stony Brook, NY, May 21; East Carolina Radio, May 30; Manasquan Fishing Club, June 1; New Jersey Historical Society, June 6; KPFA, Berkeley, June 15; WAMU, Washington, DC, June 29; Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, June 29; Raritan Bay Anglers Club, August 8; Saltwater Anglers of Bergen County, September 18; Teaneck Library, October 9, 2007; WTKF (NC), January 21, 2008.

"Music and the Vietnam War" on "When Pop and Politics Meet," Radio Scotland, BBC, January 18, 2008.

“The Tet Offensive,” Brecht Forum (NYC), February 25, 2008.

“Menhaden,” Consultative Group on Biological Diversity, Baltimore, March 6, 2008.

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” The Nature Conservancy (New York), March 6, 2008.

“The Antiwar Movement We’re Supposed to Forget,” Campus Antiwar Network, East Coast Conference, April 5, 2008.

“The Superweapon and the American Imagination,” Hamner Lecture, University of Western Michigan, April 10, 2008.

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” University of Western Michigan, April 11, 2008.

Keynote Address, Forage Fish Conference, Marine Fish Conservation Network, Raleigh, NC, April 18, 2008.

Keynote Address, Marine Fish Conservation Network Annual Conference, Washington, DC, June 3, 2008.

“War Stars,” Electric Politics Podcast, June 20, 2008. http://www.electricpolitics.com/podcast/2008/06/its_not_defense_spending.html

"Science and History: The Case of Menhaden," Virginia Institute of Marine Science, July 8, 2008.

“War Stars,” WORT (Madison), July 15, 2008.

"The Most Important Fish in the Sea," Chilmark Public Library, Martha's Vineyard, July 30, 2008.

"From Whales to Menhaden," New Bedford Whaling Museum, July 31, 2008.

On War Stars, KOOP (Texas), August 3, 2008.

Interview on “Eco Logic,” WBAI, August 5, 2008.

Interview on “Law and Disorder,” WBAI August 11, 2008. http://lawanddisorder.org/2008/08/10/law-and-disorder-august-11-2008/

"The Inside Stories of the American Prison," Old Dominion University, October 2, 2008.

"War Stars," New York Metropolitan Area American Studies Association, November 12, 2008.

"The Most Important Fish in the Sea," William Paterson University, November 13, 2008.

“The Inside Stories of the Global American Prison,” Texas Studies in Language and Literature, 50 (Fall 2008). 235-242. [Reprinted in Liberation Literature Anthology, Summer 2009.]

“Transforming Futures,” Science Fiction Studies, 36 (July 2009), 197-198.

“Ne vous inquiétez pas, ce n’est que de la science-fiction!” (translated from War Stars) in Solution non satisfaisante, (Paris: Editions du Somnium, 2009 ; ISBN : 978-2-9532703-4-1), 89-117.

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” One Community, One Book, Wellfleet, MA, March 21, 2009.

Video presentation of VIETNAM Y LAS FANTASIAS NORTEAMERICANAS, University of Buenos Aires, April 27, 2009.

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” University of the District of Columbia, November 5, 2009.

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” Coastal Flyrodders of New Jersey, November 17, 2009.

Chair and commentator, “Technologies of War,” American Studies Association, November 7, 2009.

“Menhaden,” Radio Five Live, BBC, December 24, 2009.

“An Industry’s Ruins,” in Ruth Formanek, Fish Factories: Ruins of an American Industry (New York, NY: Pogonia Press, 2010; ISBN 978-0-9817670-1-7), 19-59.

“La mente como campo de batallo,” (Interview) Ñ, Clarin, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 3, 2010. http://www.revistaenie.clarin.com/notas/2010/04/03/_-02171995.htm

"'Doctor' Frankenstein and 'Scientific' Medicine" reprinted in Bioethics in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” ed. Gary Wiener (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 2010).

"Billy Budd and Capital Punishment: A Tale of Three Centuries" reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 234 (Gale Publishing: Farmington Hills, MI, 2010.)

“Forage Fish,” KUOW (Seattle), January 5, 2010.

“Menhaden,” Voice of America TV (recorded January 7, 2010).

“Omega Protein,” Fox News TV, Washington, March 4 and 5, 2010.

“Menhaden,” Morning Show, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, April 5, 2010.

“The U.S. Political Environment,” 3CR 855AM, Melbourne, April 27, 2010.

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” WMNY (Pittsburgh); WVLY (Wheeling, WV). (Recorded, September 2, 2010).

“The Antiwar Movement We’re Not Supposed to Know About,” The Big Read, Ephrata (PA) Library, September 23, 2010.

2001-2005

VIETNAM AND OTHER AMERICAN FANTASIES. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. x1v+256 pages. Paperback, 2001. [Spanish edition: VIETNAM Y LAS FANTASIAS NORTEAMERICANAS. Translated by Mario Iribarren. Introduction by Pablo Pozzi. Buenos Aires: Final Abierto, 2008. 382 pages. 2nd Edition, Introduction by Eduardo Grüner. Buenos Aires: Final Abierto, 2012. 374 pages.][Cuban edition, Introduction by Jorge Hernández Martínez. Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2017. 317 pages.]

"Kicking the Denial Syndrome: Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods" in Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and Each Other). Ed. Mark C. Carnes. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. 331-343.

"The War in American Culture about the Vietnam War" ("Xung Dot Trong Nen Van Hoa My Xung Quanh Van de Chien Tranh Viet Nam") in Tiep Can Duong Dai Van Hoa My: Contemporary Approaches to American Culture. Ed. Nguyen Lien and Jonathan Auerbach. Hanoi, 2001. 257-298.

"The Most Important Fish in the Sea," Discover, September 2001. 44-51.

("The Most Important Fish in the Sea" reprinted by California Fish (http://www.californiafish.org/menahden collapse.html). September 24, 2001)

"(The Most Important Fish in the Sea" reprinted by Coastal Conservation Association Virginia, September 2001 (http://www.ccavirginia.org/cca_va_html/menhadenDiscover.html)

"Interviews on Vietnam and Other American Fantasies : KVMR (Nevada City, CA), November 15, 2000; "Democracy Now," WBAI (New York) and Pacifica Radio Network, November 16, 2000; WORT (Madison, WI), November 20, 2000; I E Radio Network, November 21, 2000; "New York and Company," WNYC (New York), November 22, 2000; KPFA (Berkeley), November 28, 2000; Working Assets Radio, November 30, 2000; KPFK (Los Angeles), November 14, 2000, WUSB (Stony Brook, NY), December 11, 2000; KQED (San Francisco), January 8, 2001; "Public Interest," National Public Radio, January 12, 2001, KUCI (Irvine, CA), January 17, 2001; et al.

"The Vietnam War and the Culture Wars; Or, The Perils of Western Civilization," Popular Culture Association Convention, Philadelphia, April 13, 2001.

Programs on Bob Kerrey and the Vietnam War: Pacifica Radio Network, April 26, 2001; Radio France International, May 2, 2001; "Talk of the Nation," National Public Radio, May 2, 2001; "Talking History," National Public Radio, May 28, 2001; WORT (Madison, WI), June 5, 2001; WBAI (New York), June 20, 2001.

"The Vietnam War and the Culture Wars; Or, The Perils of Western Civilization," Popular Culture Association Convention, Philadelphia, April 13, 2001.

"Reading the Future," Keynote Address, New Jersey Council of Teachers of English, Newark, May 4, 2001.

On Cuba-US Relations, WPKN (Hartford), June 12, 2001.

"Teaching the Vietnam War," The William Joiner Center, University of Massachusetts, Boston, June 27, 2001.

"Agent Orange," Radio France International, July 2, 2001.

"Cluster Bomb," Democracy Now, Pacifica Radio, October 26, 2001.

"Teaching the Vietnam War During the 'War on Terrorism,'" American Studies Association Convention, November 11, 2001.

On Menhaden, WGBB, December 8, 2001.

("The Antiwar Movement We Are Supposed to Forget" reprinted in International Socialist Review, March-April 2002. 50-54.)

"The Science Fiction of Medicine," in No Cure for the Future: Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Gary Westfahl and George Slusser. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 9-22.

"Computers in Fiction," Computer Sciences. Ed. Roger R. Flynn. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2002.

(Chapter on "Bartleby" from The Wake of the Gods reprinted in Melville's Short Novels: Norton Critical Edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002, 176-185.)

"Nuclear War Literature," in Violence in America: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Ronald Gottesman and Mauricio Mazón. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002.

"Missing in Action in the 21st Century" in Blackwell Companion to the Vietnam War. Ed. Marilyn Young and Robert Buzzanco. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002, 2006. 317-332.

"The Most Important Fish in the Sea," reprinted in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Ed. Natalie Angier. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Fall 2002. 80-88.

("The Most Important Fish in the Sea" reproduced in "Physical and Integrated Science," Powerweb. McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. Fall 2002.)

("The Most Important Fish in the Sea" reproduced in "Oceanography 03/04," Powerweb. McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. Fall 2002. )

"From Vietnam to Afghanistan," Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, February 10, 2002.

On Jack Henry Abbott, All Things Considered," National Public Radio, February 12, 2002. Archived at www.npr.org.

"Teaching 9/11: Contexts and Texts," Conference on September 11: One Year After, Museum of the City of New York, October 19, 2002.

"Teaching the Literature of the Vietnam War," Modern Language Association Convention, December 28, 2002.

1973-2002 : Editorial Board, Editorial Consultant, Science-Fiction Studies.

"The Quiet American's War on Terror," The Nation. February 3, 2003. 43-44.

"We'll Take Menhaden," Star-Ledger, March 16, 2003. Perspective section,1 and 6.

"Can Vietnam Awaken Us Again: Teaching the Literature of the Vietnam War," Radical Teacher, 66 (Spring 2003). 28-31.

("From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars" reprinted in The Arlington Reader: Canons and Contexts, Ed. Lynn Z. Bloom, Louise Smith, and Ning Yu. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. 514-530.)

("The Most Important Fish in the Sea" reprinted in Outlooks: Readings for Environmental Literacy, 2nd ed. Ed. Michael McKinney. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett, 2004. 19-23.)

"Under Attack for 150 Years," Clarion, Summer 2003, 10.

"`Peace Is Our Profession': The Bombers Take Over," in The Airplane and American Culture. Ed. Dominick A. Pisano. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2003. 333-356.

On War and Historical Memory, WUSB (Stony Brook, NY), January 13, 2003.

"Teaching in a Time of War Fever," Panel, Socialist Scholars Conference, March 15, 2003.

"Vietnam Again," Talkback, WBAI, April 23, 2003.

"Vietnam and Iraq," Pastors for Peace/IFCO, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, April 24, 2003.

"Teaching American Literature Post 9/11," Roundtable, American Literature Association, May 22, 2003.

Commentator, "The Cold War and American Memory," American Studies Association Convention, October 16, 2003.

Keynote address, American Studies Association Secondary Educators' Luncheon, October 18, 2003.

"War Is Peace: Washington's Final Science Fiction Solution," Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature Discussion Group, Modern Language Association Convention, December 29, 2003.

"Bioterror Comes Home," Literature and Science Division, Modern Language Association Convention, December 30, 2003.

("The Most Important Fish in the Sea" reprinted in Outlooks: Readings for Environmental Literacy, 2nd ed. Ed. Michael McKinney. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett, 2004. 19-23.)

"Under Attack for 150 Years," Clarion, Summer 2003, 10.

"`Peace Is Our Profession': The Bombers Take Over," in The Airplane and American Culture. Ed. Dominick A. Pisano. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2003. 333-356.

"Menhaden: Our Most Precious Fish," The Sportsman's Magazine, February 2004, 24, 49. Reprinted in Rhode Island Saltwalter Anglers Association Newsletter, April 2004, 1, 37-39.

"Computers in Fiction" in Concise Encyclopedia of Computer Science. Ed. Edwin Reilly. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. 322-325.

("Animal Farm Unbound Or, What the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Reveals about American Literature" reprinted in Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 141 [NCLC-141]. Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2004.)

("From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars" reprinted in The Brief Arlington Reader: Canons and Contexts, Ed. Lynn Z. Bloom, Louise Smith, and Ning Yu. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. 384-400.)

"Billy Budd and Capital Punishment," San Francisco Opera 2004/2005 Yearbook. San Francisco, 2004. 32-35.

"Billy Budd, War, Empire, and Music," Billy Budd Program, San Francisco Opera 2004-2005 Season. San Francisco, 2004. xi-xii.

"Ralph Nader and the Progressive Agenda," TruthOut.org, October 17, 2004. http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/101704F.shtml

"The American Prison and the Normalization of Torture" in Torture, American Style, ed. Margaret Power. November 28, 2004. http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/resources/torture/brucefranklin.html

"War is Peace: Washington's Final Science Fiction Solution," Fictions (Rome) III (2004), 13-20.

Review of The Final Frontier: America, Science, and Terror by Dominick Jenkins, Science & Society, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Winter 2004-2005), 520-522.

"When Did the Vietnam War Begin?", American Historical Association, January 10, 2004.

"The Hidden History of the Antiwar Movement," New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Center, March 27, 2004.

"The Antiwar Movement We Are Not Supposed to Know About," New School University, March 30, 2004.

"When Did the Vietnam War Begin? And What Difference Does It Make?" Yeshiva University, April 22, 2004.

"Kerry and Vietnam," WRT (Madison, WI), September 14, 2004.

"Iraq and Vietnam," West Chester University (PA), October 12, 2004.

"History of the Vietnam War," Montclair Adult School, October 19, 2004.

"History of the Iraq War," Kean University, October 21, 2004.

"Billy Budd and Capital Punishment," San Francisco Opera 2004/2005 Yearbook. San Francisco, 2004. 32-35.

"Billy Budd, War, Empire, and Music," Billy Budd Program, San Francisco Opera 2004-2005 Season. San Francisco, 2004. xi-xii.

"Ralph Nader and the Progressive Agenda," TruthOut.org, October 17, 2004. http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/101704F.shtml

"The American Prison and the Normalization of Torture" in Torture, American Style, ed. Margaret Power. November 28, 2004. http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/resources/torture/brucefranklin.html

"War is Peace: Washington's Final Science Fiction Solution," Fictions (Rome) III (2004), 13-20.

Review of The Final Frontier: America, Science, and Terror by Dominick Jenkins, Science & Society, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Winter 2004-2005), 520-522.

Review of Striper Wars: An American Fish Story by Dick Russell, American Scientist, September-October 2005, 461-462. http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/45920

("Kicking the Denial Syndrome: Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods" reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 211, 2005.)

"The World in a Prison: Beethoven's Fidelio," Fidelio Program, San Francisco Opera 2005-2006 Season. San Francisco, 2005. xvi-xviii.

"On the 30th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War," Radio France International, April 30, 2005.

"'Vietnam' in the New American Century," The British Academy, London, May 14, 2005.

"The Conservative Labyrinth in Recent US History" (Commentator), American Studies Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC, November 6, 2005.

"On Agent Orange and Torture," WBAI (NYC), November 14, 2005.