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An American flag at the Vietnam Memorial on the National Mall.

Ken Burns’s American War

The filmmaker wants ‘The Vietnam War’ to unite America. Can anyone do that under Trump?
by Alyssa Rosenberg via Washington Post on September 14, 2017

How Vietnam Dramatically Changed Our Views on Honor and War

The military’s focus on individual service members in the late years of Vietnam has created a permanent legacy
by Richard Lachmann via The Conversation on September 13, 2017
Richard Nixon

The Presidency Never Recovered After Vietnam

The war opened the credibility gap. What we’ve learned since has only widened it.
by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick via The Atlantic on September 12, 2017
Outside of the New York Historical Society building.

Bringing It All Back Home: The Vietnam War in Public History and Personal Memory

Louise Mirrer reflects on the history and memory of the Vietnam War and a new exhibit at the New York Historical Society.
by Louise Mirrer via HuffPost on September 5, 2017
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Vietnam in American Memory

America's involvement in Vietnam remains a contested historical landscape: how should the conflict be remembered, and who has the right to tell the stories?

Hell No, He Must Go!

What anti-Trump protesters can learn from the successes, and mistakes, of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
by David Kieran via Slate on February 7, 2017
Two A-4C Skyhawks fly past the USS Kearsarge. (Photo: U.S. Navy/public domain)

Bombing Missions of the Vietnam War

A visual record of the largest aerial bombardment in history.
by Cooper Thomas via ArcGIS StoryMaps on January 9, 2017
Antiwar protest against the Vietnam War outside the White House.

Vietnam in the Battlefield of Memory

On the war's 50th anniversary, peace activists will be challenging the Pentagon's whitewashed history.
by Jon Wiener via The Nation on April 15, 2015

Photographer Who Took Iconic Vietnam Photo Looks Back, 40 Years After the War Ended

His photo of Kim Phuc was a transformative moment in a horrible conflict.
by Mark Edward Harris, Nick Ut via The Hive on April 3, 2015
Cover of "Brothers in Arms: A Journey From War to Peace" by William Broyles, Jr., featuring the silhouette of a Vietnam War soldier in the sunset.

The War that Won't Go Away

The question of whether or not one served, or was willing to serve, or would be willing to serve, goes deeper than name-calling and allegations of draft dodging.
by John Gregory Dunne via New York Review of Books on September 25, 1986
Antiwar protest against the Vietnam War outside the White House.

Viet Guilt

Were the real prisoners of war the young Americans who never left home?
by Christopher Buckley via Esquire on September 1, 1983
John McCain in 1974.

John McCain, Prisoner of War

John McCain's harrowing account of nearly six years as a North Vietnamese prisoner of war, in his own words.
by John McCain via U.S. News & World Report on May 14, 1973
Johnson delivers the State of the Union address in 1965.

Lyndon B. Johnson's 1968 State of the Union Address

An unpopular Lyndon B. Johnson sought unity amid turmoil in his 1968 address to Congress.
by Lyndon Baines Johnson via The American Presidency Project on January 17, 1968

A Chorus of Defiance

Fifty years after the Vietnam War’s end, lessons from the peace movement on mobilizing resistance.
by David Cortright via Boston Review on April 24, 2025
Harvard University "veritas" seal displayed on flags on its campus.

Harvard Stood Up to Trump. Too Bad the School Wasn’t Always So Brave.

The university’s last “finest hour” was more than 200 years ago.
by Timothy Noah via The New Republic on April 16, 2025
Bertrand Russell.

‘Vietdamned’

Can a new book rescue Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre’s activism from irrelevance?
by Yuan Yi Zhu via History Today on April 4, 2025
Soldiers sing at the end of the day in Vietnam, January 1968.
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The Soundtrack to Vietnam War History Isn’t Quite Historically Accurate

Why rock overtook every other genre to define our understanding of America at war.
by David Suisman via HNN on December 3, 2024

You Had to Be There

Whose side is the war correspondent on?
by Zoë Hu via The Baffler on November 5, 2024
Vietnamese refugees preparing to evacuate a village during an American air raid.

The End of a Village

Jonathan Schell’s account of the US military’s destruction of the village of Ben Suc in Vietnam laid bare the problem with many American interventions.
by Wallace Shawn via New York Review of Books on September 12, 2024
Lieutenant William Calley leaving court with his attorney George Latimer.

Tracking Down Lieutenant Calley

How I learned the story of the My Lai Massacre.
by Seymour M. Hersh via seymourhersh.substack on August 1, 2024
Human figures colored either blue or green.

Mortality Wars

Estimating life and death in Iraq and Gaza.
by Shaan Sachdev via The Drift on July 8, 2024
An FTA button with a drawing of a raised fist holding dogtags.
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Not Bob Hope’s Idea of Troop Entertainment

Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland provide an outlet for antiwar soldiers.
by Lindsay Goss via HNN on June 25, 2024
Joe Biden speaking in January.

No, the 2024 Election Won’t Be Anything Like 1968

The election will be a challenge for Joe Biden. But looking to the past won’t help him—or us—understand what lies ahead.
by Walter Shapiro via The New Republic on May 9, 2024
Fr. Daniel Berrigan, left, and his brother, Fr. Philip Berrigan, outside the Montgomery County Court House in Norristown, Pennsylvania, 1981 (AP Photo/Paul Shane).

When the FBI Feared the Catholic Left

Even if today's anti-war protestors couldn’t tell you who the Berrigan brothers were, the Catholic Left’s shadow looms large.
by Arvin Alaigh via Commonweal on March 11, 2024
Henry Kissinger in the table in the White House situation room.

Kissinger, Me, and the Lies of the Master

‘Off off the record’ with the man who secretly taped our telephone calls.
by Seymour M. Hersh via seymourhersh.substack on December 6, 2023
Lyndon B. Johnson speaking with a U.S. soldier in Vietnam in 1966.

The Cost of Overcorrecting on Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam

For years, LBJ was reviled for Vietnam. Then the historical tables turned in his direction. But they turned a little too far.
by Fredrik Logevall, Julian E. Zelizer via The New Republic on December 2, 2023

Henry Kissinger, Who Shaped World Affairs Under Two Presidents, Dies at 100

He was the only person ever to be national security adviser and secretary of state at the same time. He was also the target of relentless critics.
by Thomas W. Lippman via Washington Post on November 30, 2023
The aftermath of U.S. bombs in Neak Luong, Cambodia, on Aug. 7, 1973.

Kissinger's Bombings Likely Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Cambodians and Set Path for Khmer Rouge

A Cambodian scholar who fled the Khmer Rouge as a child writes about the legacy of Henry Kissinger, who died at the age of 100 on Nov 28, 2023.
by Sophal Ear via The Conversation on November 30, 2023
Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America's Ruling Class, Finally Dies

In a demonstration of why he was able to kill so many people and get away with it, the day of his passage will be a solemn one in Congress and newsrooms.
by Spencer Ackerman via Rolling Stone on November 30, 2023
Henry Kissinger, 1975.

Henry Kissinger: The Declassified Obituary

The primary sources on Kissinger’s controversial legacy.
by Peter Kornbluh, Tom Blanton, William Burr via National Security Archive on November 29, 2023
French photographer Catherine Leroy in between two soldiers in Vietnam

Catherine Leroy Parachutes into Danger

When the Pentagon wanted a photographer to record the largest airborne assault in the Vietnam War, the most qualified candidate was a young French woman.
by Elizabeth Becker via American Heritage on November 6, 2023
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