Vietnam

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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.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/4/19
  

  40 Years After The Vietnam War, Some Refugees Face Deportation Under Trump

  U.S. officials have been working behind the scenes to convince the Vietnamese government to repatriate more than 7,000 Vietnamese immigrants with criminal convictions.

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/6/19
  

  How the U.S. Departure From Afghanistan Could Echo Kissinger's Moves in Vietnam

  by David Kaiser

  Neither involvement, in retrospect, was ever likely to have succeeded, because the political forces the U.S. chose to support were too weak to deal with an armed opposition supported from a neighboring territory.

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• 2/2/19
  

  Is This the Right Way to End a War?

  Many experts worry that the U.S. is repeating the mistakes of Vietnam in Afghanistan.

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• SOURCE: Dallas Morning News
  10-24-18
  

  That sensational New York Times story about LBJ saving America from nuclear war in Vietnam is wrong says author Gregg Jones

  by Gregg Jones

  It was based on Michael Beschloss’s new book.

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• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  5/25/18
  

  Historian William Polk is alarmed at the latest plan to stabilize Afghanistan

  by William Polk

  The situation is terrible now and looks like it will get worse.

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• 3-15-18
  

  The Massacre that Was Dismissed as Fake News

  by Scott Laderman

  It was the My Lai Massacre. It happened 50 years ago this week.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1-28-18
  

  The War That Never Ends (for the U.S. Military High Command)

  by Danny Sjursen

  And It’s Not the War on Terror

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-25-18
  

  U.S. Plans to Send First Aircraft Carrier to Vietnam Since War’s End

  The proposed visit to the port of Danang comes amid heightened tensions over China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, including to islands claimed by Vietnam.

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• 12/24/17
  

  Mark Bowden Looks Back at Vietnam and U.S. Foreign Policy Through the Lens of One Horrific Battle

  by David Kindy

  In an interview the New York Times bestselling author of “Black Hawk Down” explains why he decided to write a book about Hue.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-25-17
  

  A Defiant Map-Hunter Stakes Vietnam’s Claims in the South China Sea

  He scoured the world for evidence to make his case, but a scholar now finds his government reluctant to challenge Beijing, its powerful rival.

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• SOURCE: Washington Times
  11-22-17
  

  Vietnam veterans challenge Ken Burns on the accuracy of his epic documentary

  "The film portrays U.S. support for South Vietnam as blustering, blundering jingoism and the choice of music, graphics, and interviewees demonstrates a bias in favor of the militant leftist anti-war cliches of the 1960s."

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• SOURCE: Historians for Peace and Democracy (Press Release)
  9-12-17
  

  Historians Against the War changes its name – and mission

  by Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD)

  "From now on, we will be defending civil liberties, countering “alternative facts” and triumphalist narratives, and challenging militarism in its various forms."  –  Historians for Peace and Democracy

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-29-17
  

  Ken Burns argues that Vietnam is to blame for much of our current alienation and polarization

  by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

  In an op ed in the NYT he and Lynn Novick make the case that we need to understand Vietnam to understand ourselves.

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• 4-2-17
  

  Three Times When We Blundered into War

  by David R. Contosta

  Why it’s necessary to remember where and when we went wrong before.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-31-16
  

  Report: Nixon personally directed South Vietnam to reject LBJ’s 1968 peace initiative

  by John A. Farrell

  A journalist says he’s discovered proof in H.R. Haldeman’s papers that confirms the worst suspicions of LBJ.