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Allen Ginsberg at the End of America

The polarized dialogue over Vietnam and the civil rights movement convinced Ginsberg that America was teetering on the precipice of a fall.
by Michael Shumacher via The Paris Review on August 27, 2020

The Forever War Over War Literature

A post-9/11 veteran novelist explores a post-Vietnam literary soiree gone bad, and finds timeless lessons about a contentious and still-evolving genre.
by Matt Gallagher via The New Republic on July 17, 2020

Where Were You in ‘73?

In the turbulent 1970s, the balm of pop cultural nostalgia set the tone for today's political reaction.
by Jason Tebbe via Tropics of Meta on July 16, 2020

A Letter From Viet Nam on the Occasion of the 45th Anniversary of the End of the War

The war and its aftermath, from a Vietnamese perspective.
by Mark Ashwill via CounterPunch on April 30, 2020
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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?
Photo of Richard Holsbrook on an abstract paint background.

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

After serving in Vietnam, Richard Holbrooke became a proponent of soft power. He would then contribute greatly to American foreign policy.
by Samuel Moyn via London Review of Books on January 27, 2020
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The Whistleblowers of the My Lai Massacre

Three men who brought the terrors of My Lai to light.
by Howard Jones via HNN on December 17, 2019

Vietnam Draft Lotteries Were a Scientific Experiment

The Vietnam draft lotteries functioned as a randomized experiment—which has allowed social scientists to study its life-changing effects.
by Tim Johnson, Dalton Conley, Christopher T. Dawes via The Atlantic on December 2, 2019
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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

Fifty Years Ago Today, US Soldiers Joined the Vietnam Moratorium Protests in Mass Numbers

Soldiers who had fought in Vietnam weren’t pitted against an anti-war movement — in fact, many were actually part of it.
by Derek Seidman via Jacobin on October 15, 2019

The Vietnam Myth That Gave Us All Those ‘Rambo’ Movies

For decades, conspiracy theorists have clung to the fiction that thousands of soldiers are being held captive in Asia.
by Nathan Smith via The Outline on September 20, 2019

Fifty Years Ago, Hendrix’s Woodstock Anthem Expressed the Hopes and Fears of a Nation

It also inspired my own scholarship on the national anthem.
by Mark Clague via The Conversation on August 14, 2019

White Power

A review of two recent books about white paramilitarism in the wake of the Cold War.
by Thomas Meaney via London Review of Books on August 1, 2019

Gump Talk

25 years later, what does Gump mean?
via Contingent on July 1, 2019

When Presidents Intervene on Behalf of War Criminals

Amid reports that Trump may pardon accused or convicted war criminals, it's worth remembering Nixon's response to the My Lai Massacre.
by Mikhaila Fogel via Lawfare on May 27, 2019

When Pat Buchanan Brought Johnny Cash to the Nixon White House

It didn't go exactly as planned. But for TAC's founder, this is where his populist antiwar movement may have begun.
by Jack Hunter via The American Conservative on May 24, 2019
Anna Chennault with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger.
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The Natl. Security Adviser who Colluded With Foreign Powers Decades Before Michael Flynn

New documents reveal that Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign colluded with a foreign government far more than historians thought.
by Shane O'Sullivan via Made By History on December 26, 2018

The Lethal Crescent

The 45 years of peace between the Cold War superpowers were 45 years of killing for much of the rest of the world.
by Daniel Immerwahr via The Nation on December 20, 2018
US soldiers use tear gas to “flush” women and children from hiding in Vietnam, 1966.

Tear Gas and the U.S. Border

How did it come to pass that a weapon banned for military use was deployed against asylum-seekers on the U.S. border?
by Stuart Schrader via Process: A Blog for American History on December 6, 2018

Democrats’ Struggle Over Masculinity 50 Years Ago is Still Playing Out Today

Liberal politicians should trumpet a vision of masculinity that incorporates the best qualities of LBJ and Humphrey.
by Aram Goudsouzian via The Conversation on November 1, 2018

The Dual Defeat

Hubert Humphrey and the unmaking of Cold War liberalism.
by Michael Kazin via The Nation on October 18, 2018

MacArthur's Last Stand Against a Winless War

MacArthur leaned on JFK to stay out of Vietnam. Had Kennedy survived, might history have been different?
by Mark Perry via The American Conservative on October 3, 2018

The Vietnam War: A History in Song

The ‘First Television War’ was also documented in over 5,000 songs.
by Justin Brummer via History Today on September 25, 2018

My Fellow Prisoners

The grand lesson of John McCain's life should be that heroic politics is a broken politics.
by George Blaustein via n+1 on August 29, 2018

White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream

“Very fine people”—fathers and husbands, as well as mothers and daughters—have always been central to the work of white supremacy.
by Stephen Kantrowitz via Boston Review on July 23, 2018

Declaration of War

The violent rise of white supremacy after the Vietnam War.
by Patrick Blanchfield via The Nation on June 20, 2018

Department of State’s Dissent Channel Revealed

Dozens of newly declassified documents show foreign service staff raising serious concerns about a range of U.S. policies abroad.
by Nate Jones, Tom Blanton, Emma Sarfity via National Security Archive on March 15, 2018
Lyndon Johnson with advisors including Robert McNamara and Dean Rusk.
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It’s Time for Congress to Wrest Its War-Making Authority Back From the President

If the U.S. government is going to wage unending war, it should at least get the public on its side.
by Marc J. Selverstone via Made By History on February 23, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr. speaking into news microphones.

Against National Security Citizenship

By connecting liberation at home with an end to U.S. militarism abroad, today's black activists are picking up where MLK left off.
by Aziz Rana via Boston Review on February 7, 2018
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LBJ’s 1968 State of the Union Was a Disaster. Can President Trump Avoid His Fate?

For unpopular presidents, the State of the Union is a minefield.
by Kyle Longley via Made By History on January 30, 2018

The Untold Story of the Pentagon Papers Co-Conspirators

A historian reveals the crucial role that he played in helping Daniel Ellsberg leak the documents to journalists.
by Eric Litchblau via The New Yorker on January 29, 2018
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