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Lyndon Johnson with advisors including Robert McNamara and Dean Rusk.

How the Tet Offensive Undermined American Faith in Government

Fifty years ago, the January 1968 battle laid bare the way U.S. leaders had misled the public about the war in Vietnam.

by Julian E. Zelizer via The Atlantic on January 15, 2018

Magazine comic image of soldiers in Vietnam.

Comics Captured America's Growing Ambivalence About the Vietnam War

Comics were able to reflect changing views on the conflict in a way few other popular culture forms could.

by Cathy Schlund-Vials via The Conversation on September 20, 2017

Lieutenant William Calley walking alongside his civilian attorney, with two other men following behind.

Was William Calley MAGA’s Founding Father?

He committed mass murder at My Lai. He was also its fall guy.

by Timothy Noah via The New Republic on July 31, 2024

Howard Zinn Carried Out an Act of Radical Diplomacy in the Middle of the Vietnam War

The famous historian was also an antiwar activist who went to North Vietnam in 1968 to accompany three captured US pilots back home.

by Michael Koncewicz via Jacobin on August 24, 2022

Garbage in street

When the Young Lords Put Garbage on Display to Demand Change

In 1969, a group of Puerto Rican youth in East Harlem leveraged a garbage problem to demand reform.

by Johanna Fernandez via HISTORY on September 15, 2021

Mark Rudd addresses students as president of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society on May 3, 1968.

Mark Rudd’s Lessons From SDS and the Weather Underground for Today’s Radicals

The famous activist reflects on what radicals like him got right and got wrong, and what today’s socialists should learn from his experiences.

by Mark Rudd, Micah Uetricht via Jacobin on March 29, 2021

Four people looking at a latrine

The Paradise of the Latrine

American toilet-building and the continuities of colonial and postcolonial development.

by Simon Toner via Modern American History on November 29, 2019

Scene of Martin Luther King assassination, with people around King pointing to where the gunfire came from.

1968: Year of Counter-Revolution

What haunted America was not the misty specter of revolution but the solidifying specter of reactionary backlash.

by Todd Gitlin via New York Review of Books on May 8, 2018

William Sloan Coffin Jr. and his daughter.

Anti-War Protests 50 Years Ago Helped Mold The Modern Christian Right

Vietnam created a rupture in the Protestant church.

by David Mislin via The Conversation on May 2, 2018

Napalm explosion in Vietnam.

Episode-by-Episode Reviews: "The Vietnam War"

Watching Ken Burns' latest epic with a historian who has written extensively about the war.

by Christian G. Appy via Process: A Blog for American History on September 18, 2017

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