Vietnam War 
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SOURCE: The Baffler
6/17/2023
Daniel Ellsberg's Moral Courage Was Unsparing, Even of Himself
by Erik Baker
Turning against Vietnam wasn't Daniel Ellsberg's great moral achievement. That was his realization that he had to choose between moral conviction and maintaining his place in the ranks of elite decisionmakers.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
5/25/2023
"Salts" are Part of Labor's Fight to Organize. They were once Part of the Antiwar Movement
by Derek Seidman
Taking a job with the covert intention of organizing the workplace is a time-honored labor tactic that's back in the news. Some dedicated activists in the 1960s "salted" the U.S. military in the hopes of building an antiwar movement within the ranks.
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5/14/2023
How a Little-Known Anti-Vietnam Protest Reverberates Today
by Gary B. Ostrower
A 1968 disruption of an ROTC ceremony at Alfred University in 1968 involved just 15 students and 2 faculty. It won't be remembered with Berkeley or Columbia in the annals of student protest, but it made a significant impact on the legal requirements placed on universities' policies for dealing with student protest.
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SOURCE: CBS
4/30/2023
As a Massachusetts Museum Exhibits Parts of "Hanoi Hilton," Survivors Reflect
Salvaged remnants of the POW camp have been reconstructed by the American Heritage Museum in Massachusetts.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/20/2023
The Documents Daniel Ellsberg Didn't Leak
While famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971, the researcher and activist has revealed that he had another stash of secret papers—about American nuclear war planning—that he felt a duty to publicize. He never did release them, but is committed in his last days to work against nuclear war.
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4/2/2023
50 Years Later: Eyewitness to the Last Day of US Military Command in Vietnam
by Arnold Isaacs
In this excerpt, a journalist observes the tragicomic exit of the last US military command in Vietnam 50 years ago on March 29, 1973.
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SOURCE: London Review of Books
3/1/2023
Review: The Unfinished Business of "Double V"
by Eric Foner
Eric Foner considers recent books on racism in the military in World War II and in Vietnam.
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1/29/2023
No Golden Anniversary for the Paris Peace Accords
by Arnold R. Isaacs
While the West observes January 27 as the anniversary of the agreement, it was already January 28 in Vietnam when the accords took effect, a telling symbol of the disjunction between American and Vietnamese views of the conflict and its stakes that contributed to their tragic failure.
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1/29/2023
50 Years After the Paris Accords: How the US Lost, then Won, in Vietnam
by Robert Buzzanco
As Vietnam becomes increasingly integrated into global capitalism, the temptation to identify a long-term victory for American interests in southeast Asia should be tempered by awareness of the massive human cost paid by the Vietnamese.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
12/14/2022
Why the POW-MIA Flag Now Flies Over America
by John Thomason
The mandate to fly the black banner over many government buildings across the nation reflects the organized power of a New Right faction that crafted a myth of soldiers left behind to air broader cultural grievances about militarism, masculinity, and a supposedly wayward nation.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/6/2022
Don Luce, Activist Against Vietnam War, Dies at 88
Luce helped expose the torture and human rights abuses carried out by the government of South Vietnam, and campaigned against the war after being expelled from South Vietnam as an aid worker.
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12/4/2022
Farewell, Brother Staughton
by Carl Mirra
Staughton Lynd was always in the trenches fighting for a better world, and for that he remains a “admirable radical” and, for that matter, a beautiful person.
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11/6/2022
Russian Soldiers' Calls Home Echo Moral Injury Testimony of Vietnam Vets
by Elise Lemire
Translations of intercepted calls from Russian soliders in Ukraine reveal guilt, shame, anger, and loss of faith in national institutions and leadership that echo the testimony of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Will these veterans help launch resistance to Russian militarism?
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SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
10/21/2022
Screaming Past Each Other at Christmas: Debating the End of the Vietnam War
by Ryan Reft
In December 1972 the United States launched a massive bombing campaign, notionally to force the North back to the bargaining table and secure an "honorable" peace. The fierce debate between Anthony Lewis and Robert Conquest over the merits of that reasoning would resonate for years.
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10/23/2022
After 50 Years, the Truth About the Vietnam Peace Agreement Remains Elusive
by Arnold Isaacs
In October 1972, Henry Kissinger declared "peace is at hand" in Vietnam. Why, then, did the United States continue bombing North Vietnam? Official deception still colors American foreign policy and military strategy today.
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SOURCE: Columbia News
8/13/2022
A Columbia Prof. Fact-Checked the New Vietnam-Era Film "The Greatest Beer Run Ever"
Although it tells the story of American protagonists, Prof. Lien-Hang Nguyen worked with the producers to ensure accuracy and avoid stereotyping in the depiction of Vietnamese characters in the film; she susggests that there are many more Vietnamese stories to tell.
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5/1/2022
1968: A Year of Dashed Hopes
by Walter G. Moss
While people seek to confront life's challenges with hope and courage and banish fear and doubt, some years, like 1968, don't make that easy.
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5/1/2022
Ukraine Evokes Past "Eve of Destruction"
by Richard Aquila
In 1960s America, popular songs gradually roused the conscience of many Americans against the war in Vietnam. What forces might make Russia (as well as Ukraine and the west) push away from the brink of unthinkable acts mass destruction?
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SOURCE: Substack
4/20/2022
What Did We Do in Indochina? Robert Buzzanco Interviewed
"There’s widespread politically useful misinformation about the war. And there’s also widespread liberal apologetics for the war."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
2/16/2022
When Eartha Kitt Disrupted the Ladies Who Lunch
In 1968, real life imitated "Batman" as the Catwoman actress broke the veneer of politeness at a luncheon hosted by Lady Bird Johnson to denounce the war against Vietnam. But while Catwoman always got away, Kitt's career was destroyed for a decade.