Vietnam War

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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.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-26-18
  

  What Was the Vietnam War About?

  by Christian G. Appy

  How we name and define this most controversial of American wars is not a narrow scholarly exercise, but profoundly shapes public memory of its meaning and ongoing significance to American national identity and foreign policy.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-26-18
  

  How the marches for gun control are like the protests against Vietnam

  As in Vietnam, students have a stake in this fight.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-24-18
  

  Why Lyndon Johnson Dropped Out

  by Fredrik Logevall

  He had known for years that the Vietnam War would destroy him. In March 1968, it did.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  3-16-18
  

  Only One Man Was Found Guilty for His Role in the My Lai Massacre

  This Is what it was like to cover his trial.

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• 3-15-18
  

  The Massacre that Was Dismissed as Fake News

  by Scott Laderman

  It was the My Lai Massacre. It happened 50 years ago this week.