June 29, 2001

Noted Historian Misled Students That He Was Vietnam Veteran

By ANA MARIE COX

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history professor at Mount Holyoke College apologized last week after The Boston Globe reported that he had lied to his colleagues and students for years about being a Vietnam veteran. College officials later said that Joseph J. Ellis, who also won a National Book Award in 1997, would no longer teach the course on the Vietnam War in which he told many of his tales.

The news that Mr. Ellis would not teach his class on the Vietnam War came after Mount Holyoke's

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