What is Marilyn B. Young?
{{Infobox writer |image =Marilyn Blatt Young (cropped).jpg |imagesize=200px | name = Marilyn B. Young | birth_date = {{birth date|1937|4|25|mf=yes}} | birth_place = [[Brooklyn]], [[New York]], [[United States|U.S.]] | death_date = {{death date and age |2017|2|19|1937|4|25|mf=yes}} | death_place = New York, U.S. | occupation = | nationality = [[United States|American]] | subject = }} '''Marilyn B. Young''' (April 25, 1937 &ndash; February 19, 2017) was an American historian of American foreign relations. She served as professor of history at [[New York University]]. In 2000, she was awarded a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] and an [[American Council of Learned Societies]] Fellowship, and the [[Berkshire Women's History Prize]] for ''The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990''. She was elected President of the [[Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations]] in 2011. Young died in [[New York]] on February 19, 2017, aged 79.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/marilyn-young-obituary-vietnam-wars-feminism-imperialism/ | author1 = Christy Thornton | author2 = Stuart Schrader | title = Marilyn Young (1937–2017) | work = [[Jacobin (magazine)|Jacobin]] | date = February 24, 2017}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Young, Marilyn B.}} [[Category:1937 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:American historians]] [[Category:Educators from New York City]] [[Category:Writers from New York City]] {{US-bio-stub}}