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Who is the Enemy Here?

The Vietnam War pictures that moved them most.
by Alice Gabriner via TIME on September 15, 2017
The filmmakers discuss the Vietnam miniseries.

Burns and Novick, Masters of False Balancing

In promoting healing instead of a search for truth, “The Vietnam War” offers misleading comforts.
by Jerry Lembcke via Public Books on September 15, 2017
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
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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?
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

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
Murray Rothbard

It Has Always Been About Foreign Policy

Movement conservatism’s excommunications have always centered on one set of issues.
by David Brady via The American Conservative on November 30, 2025
Richard Nixon

Escalating the Escalation

A short history of the long war on drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.
by Greg Grandin via Tom Dispatch on November 13, 2025
Donald Trump speaking to U.S. Navy sailors.

Trump: The US Lost Vietnam and Afghanistan Due to Woke

Trump thinks the US was constrained by “political correctness” in Vietnam and Afghanistan. But those wars were characterized by dehumanization and destruction.
by Ben Burgis via Jacobin on October 9, 2025
Soldiers scan the horizon in Vietnam.

My Lai Memorial

Amid bluster about warfighting and lethality, it is important to recall the moral burdens of war.
by Jonathan Clarke via The Hedgehog Review on September 17, 2025
"Napalm Girl" or "Terror of War" photograph credited to Nick Ut shows Kim Phuc and Vietnamese children running after their village was bombed with napalm in the Vietnam War.

Inside the Battle Over 'Napalm Girl'

What we have long accepted about one of the most galvanizing war photographs of all time may not be true. Can history be rewritten?
by Gary Knight via Rolling Stone on August 1, 2025
Photograph of President Nixon

The Cambodia Bombing Case

The August 1973 contretemps over President Nixon's bombing of Cambodia was a turning point in how the Supreme Court handles emergency applications.
by Steve Vladeck via One First on July 21, 2025
A line of Marines firing from behind a barricade.

Neither Marine nor Maggot

"Full Metal Jacket" and the crisis of masculinity.
by Christopher Deutsch via Nursing Clio on June 4, 2025
George Kennan; American soldiers and helicopters in Vietnam.

Conservative Realism and Vietnam

We were warned.
by Francis P. Sempa via Modern Age on May 12, 2025

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
A group of Asian men standing with towels around their necks

“Endless Bad Infinity”

A conversation with the creators of a podcast series on the feedback loop of American empire.
by Charlotte E. Rosen, Noah Kulwin, Brendan James via Public Books on April 22, 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
Collage of protesters holding up signs against war taxes.

Could Tax Protests Defund the American War Machine?

Tax resistance has long opposed war and empire in North America, and could be a way to resist U.S. funding of violence in Gaza today.
by Lauren Fadiman via Current Affairs on March 18, 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
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