Vietnam

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  4/4/2021
  

  “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World”

  by Liz Theoharis

  Martin Luther King's 1967 Riverside Church address pointed out that the cause nonviolent civil rights struggle required him to challenge the US government to end militarism. Today, the pandemic shows that an ethos of nonviolence must include an active approach to end suffering through global cooperation. 

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• 4/4/2021
  

  A Personal and Family History of Encountering Prejudice and Intolerance

  by Ron Steinman

  The author experienced antisemitic prejudice as a college student, but learned more about the pervasiveness of prejudice living in Asia as the husband of a Vietnamese woman during a time of anti-American sentiment, and then when living in suburban America as part of a mixed-race family. While it's necessary to understand the historical roots of racial bigotry, it's also always personal. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/20/2021
  

  I Don’t Want My Role Models Erased

  by Elizabeth Becker

  The work of women journalists covering the war in Vietnam has been obscured in remembrance of the war and its place in American history and culture. The author seeks to recover the stories of Frances FitzGerald, Kate Webb and Catherine Leroy.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/16/2021
  

  The Victims of Agent Orange the U.S. Has Never Acknowledged

  "The use of the herbicide in the neutral nation of Laos by the United States — secretly, illegally and in large amounts — remains one of the last untold stories of the American war in Southeast Asia."

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  3/2/2021
  

  What China's Last Major War Tells Us About How it Will Fight the Next One

  An examination of the roots of war between Vietnam and China, which may suggest that Beijing is willing to initiate military action in the future. China's poor military performance in this conflict led to reform and modernization of the People's Liberation Army. 

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• 2/14/2021
  

  King’s Final Book: Both Political Roadmap and Passionate Sermon

  by Fred Zilian

  As Black History Month unfolds amid an atmosphere of crisis and division like that which prevailed in 1968, it's worth revisiting Martin Luther King's publication that year of "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community" – a call for reordering national priorities toward justice through politics and for renewed spiritual and ethical dedication to shared humanity.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/29/2021
  

  What Should Drive Biden’s Foreign Policy?

  Columnist and Humphrey biographer James Traub says the former Senator and VP's interventionist liberalism in foreign policy is a model for Joe Biden's administration to reestablish American preeminence in world affairs. 

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• 7/26/2020
  

  One of the Chicago 7 Reflects on Dissident Politics Then and Now

  by Lee Weiner

  A veteran of dissident politics in the 1960s warns that while today's broad coalition of activists for a more just and democratic America are on the right track, they must learn from the mistakes of an older generation and find ways to keep united despite difference. 

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• 7/12/2020
  

  "The Day I Start Being Free": Detained Migrants Struggle for Human Rights

  by Jana Lipman

  The experiences of Vietnamese refugees in the 1990s, who experienced detention and a bureaucratic process exposing them to dangerous repatriation, are a precedent for the treatment of asylum-seekers in contemporary America.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/25/2020
  

  21 Lessons From America's Worst Moments

  Historians reflect on the lessons to be learned from the worst episodes of American history (if Americans can look unflinchingly on them). 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/11/2020
  

  The Myth of Henry Kissinger

  by Thomas Meaney

  Barry Gewen's new biography of the American national security figure argues that Kissinger's perspective was shaped by stories older German emigres told him about the end of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times Book Review
  3/17/2020
  

  A Stirring Family Saga Tells a Taboo History of Vietnam

  by Gaiutra Bahadur

  Americans may not know that literature has been doing history’s job with brutal episodes in Vietnam’s past. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  1/17/20
  

  Can Historical Analysis Help Reduce Military Deaths By Suicide?

  by Jeffrey Smith, Michael Doidge, Ryan Hanoa, and B. Christopher Frueh

  A longer look reveals interesting patterns and may clarify what is driving a rise in suicides.

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• 1/19/20
  

  What Dreams of Canada Tell Us About Race in America

  by April Rosenblum

  At a time when American casualties in Vietnam were disproportionately African American, most of those who successfully made it to Canada to resist the draft were white.

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• 1/19/20
  

  Four Speeches by Dr. King That Can Still Guide Us Today

  by Alan Singer

  Martin Luther King, Jr. challenged the war in Vietnam, U.S. imperialism, and laws that victimized working people and the poor, not just racial discrimination.

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• 9/29/19
  

  Myth vs History: A Study of Vietnam War Stories and Journalism

  by Jerry Lembcke 

  Australia’s Vietnam by Mark Dapin is important for the rectification it brings to public memory of Vietnam War homecomings.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  8/11/19
  

  Historian Tom Engelhardt Revisits His First Piece of Critical History – 48 Years Later

  by Tom Engelhardt

  How Hollywood created a spectacle of slaughter at the movies in which colonial and imperial history was flipped on its head.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  

  The U.S.’s Toxic Agent Orange Legacy

  Washington has admitted to the long-lasting effects of dioxin use in Vietnam, but has largely sidestepped the issue in neighboring Cambodia and Laos.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/24/19
  

  Peace With Honor: What Vietnam Can Teach Us About How to Leave Afghanistan

  by Thurston Clarke

  Nixon promised the Paris Peace Accords ending the Vietnam War would bring “peace with honor.” They brought neither, and it now appears that the Afghan War is headed for a similar denouement.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/13/19
  

  Vietnam’s Communist Party Ousts Historian Who Criticized Its China Policy

  The historian Tran Duc Anh Son said that Vietnam has irrefutable claims to islands in the South China Sea that China claims as its own.