Vietnam War

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• 11/10/19
  

  Echoes of the 1969 Vietnam War Protests 50 Years Later

  by Jim Castagnera

  "As I watch events unfolding in Washington today, I recall the river of candles flowing up Fifth Avenue fifty years ago. The more things change, the more they remain the same.”

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  September 23, 2019
  

  Protesters shut down D.C. traffic before. It helped end the Vietnam War — and reshaped American activism.

  by Hannah Natanson

  Thousands of protesters against the Vietnam War took to the streets of downtown Washington in May 1971 with a single goal: Bring traffic to a total, grinding halt in the nation’s capital.

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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: Yale News
  5/25/19
  

  History is Often Closer Than We Think

  by Wayne Willis

  “Isn’t it interesting that you are talking to a man, who talked to a man who was exactly your age, only 110 years ago?"

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/22/19
  

  They attacked a draft board office to protest the Vietnam War. Fifty years later, the fallout continues.

  The three young men, dubbed the Silver Spring Three, poured blood on draft cards in suburban Maryland.

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• 5/14/19
  

  Cassius Marcellus Clay and Muhammed Ali: What’s in a Name?

  by Joshua M Casper

  They were born with the same moniker, and both changed history. Two names. Two men. Two identities, Muhammed Ali and Cassius Marcellus Clay will forever be linked.

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  4/20/19
  

  Agent Orange: US to clean up toxic Vietnam War air base

  Agent Orange was a defoliant sprayed by US forces to destroy jungles and uncover the enemy's hiding places.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  4/15/19
  

  Lessons From Vietnam on Leaving Afghanistan

  by George C. Herring

  There’s No Good Way to End a Bad War, but Some Options Are Worse Than Others.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/29/19
  

  ‘Blue water’ Navy veterans from Vietnam-era win Agent Orange benefits case

  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled overwhelmingly for these sailors, finding they are eligible for the same disability benefits as those who put boots on the ground or patrolled Vietnam’s inland rivers.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-26-2018
  

  The national security adviser who colluded with foreign powers — decades before Michael Flynn

  by Shane O’Sullivan

  New documents reveal that Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign colluded with a foreign government far more than historians thought.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-26-2018
  

  Did a Queens Podiatrist Help Donald Trump Avoid Vietnam?

  The daughters of Dr. Larry Braunstein say he came to Donald J. Trump’s aid with a diagnosis of bone spurs during the Vietnam draft.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10-28-18
  

  The Time a President Stoked a Protest So He Could Play the ‘Law and Order’ Card

  by David Greenberg

  Running against Democratic ‘mobs’ has worked for Republicans in the past.

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• SOURCE: HarperCollins
  9-12-18
  

  The co-author of Robert McNamara’s memoirs has himself written a history of Vietnam

  by Brian VanDeMark

  He suggests that mistakes may have been avoided had policymakers understood, as we do today, our biases, as cognitive science now makes clear.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8-21-18 (accessed)
  

  The whole world is watching

  How the 1968 Chicago 'police riot' shocked America and divided the nation.

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• 8/19/18
  

  Emmy Voters: It’s Time to Brush Up on Your History

  by Michael Stewart Foley

  The PBS series on Vietnam may have made a big splash. But that doesn’t mean it’s the last word on the subject.

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• 8/10/18
  

  The Ken Burns/Lynn Novick Vietnam Documentary Has Been Nominated for an Emmy in Several Categories

  by Barbara Myers

  It doesn’t deserve an award for its content.

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• 8/12/18
  

  This Social Scientist’s Verdict on the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick Vietnam War Documentary

  by James W. Russell

  The film is well made, engrossing, and fundamentally wrong in key respects.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  5-20-18
  

  It’s the 50th anniversary of the day Trump left college and (briefly) faced the draft

  The same year that 16,899 U.S. soldiers died at the peak of the Vietnam War.

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• SOURCE: UChicago News
  5-2-18
  

  In new book, UChicago historian examines rise of white power movement

  Assistant Professor Kathleen Belew traces birth of hate groups to Vietnam War.

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• SOURCE: Omaha World-Herald
  4-25-18
  

  Michael Beschloss says this isn't the most politically divisive time in America

  The political climate after the Revolutionary War was much more polarized, and so were the environments during and after the Civil War and during and after the Civil Rights era, including the Vietnam War.