Vietnam War

The National Chicano Moratorium was an anti–Vietnam War movement organized by Mexican American activist groups under the National Chicano Moratorium Committee Against the Vietnam War. Its largest demonstration took place on August 29, 1970, when an estimated 20,000–30,000 Chicano/a protesters…

This agreement was signed by the French government and the anti-colonialist, socialist Viet Minh guerilla force. It divided Vietnam into two halves at the 17th parallel, with the northern half administered by the Viet Minh and the southern half under the French, although the two sections were meant…

<p>We weren't always welcomed home from the war. But we were good at what we did and the patients knew we mattered. </p>

<p>President Johnson shocked the nation when he ended his bid for reelection in 1968. As early as 1964, Lady Bird had suggested that he might not want to run for a second term.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A domino theory, distant wilderness warfare, the notion of “defensive enclaves,” hawks, doves, hired mercenaries, possible intervention by hostile powers, a Little trouble telling friendly natives from unfriendly—George</span> III <span class="typestyle"> went through the whole routine</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="body"><span class="body">America has taught the world that freedom is humanity’s birthright. Why should we expect President Carter to keep quiet about it?</span></span></p>

<p>After a varied career as a soldier, statesman, diplomat, and presidential adviser, Taylor wants to known as someone who “always did his damndest.”</p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The first major engagement of the U. S. Army in Vietnam was a decisive American victory. Perhaps it would have been better for all of us if it had been a defeat.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A veteran reporter looks back to a time when the stakes were <span class="typestyle"> really</span> high, and, yet, military men actually trusted newsmen. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Historians have failed to help Americans understand what the war was all about. So charges this scholar, author, and Vietnam veteran.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Hard Looks at Hidden History</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">That was the question an Oklahoma high school teacher sent out in a handwritten note to men and women who had been prominent movers or observers during the Vietnam War. Politicians, journalists, generals, and combat veterans answered him. Secretaries of Defense answered him. Presidents answered him. Taken together, the answers form a powerful and moving record of the national conscience.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">He didn’t want the job, but felt he should do it. For the first time, the soldier who tracked down the My Lai story for the office of the inspector general in 1969 tells what it was like to do some of this era’s grimmest detective work.</span></p>

<p>“C<span class="body"><span class="body"><span class="pullquote odd">ombat fatigue</span></span></span>” a<span class="body"><span class="body"><span class="pullquote odd">nd </span></span></span>“post-Vietnam syndrome” lost ground to a more sophisticated understanding of the problem of PTSD.</p>

<p><span class="deck">A civilian adventurer gave us the best artist’s record of America in Vietnam.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The “loser decade” that at first seemed nothing more than a breathing space between the high drama of the 1960s and whatever was coming next is beginning to reveal itself as a richer time than we thought.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Jan Wollett found herself on the last flight of refugees out of a crumbling Da Nang in 1975.</span></p>

<p>The general responsible for remaking the American Army in the aftermath of the Cold War knows a great deal of history, and it sustains him in a very tough job.</p>

<p><span class="deck">A scholar searches across two centuries to discover the main engine of our government’s growth, and reaches a controversial conclusion.</span></p>

<p>A wide range of historians, writers, and public figures reflect on “the most important, or interesting, or overlooked way in which America has changed"</p>

<p><span class="deck">FOR MORE THAN A DECADE NOW, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS HAVE BEEN LEAVING LETTERS AND SNAPSHOTS, CIGARETTES AND CLOTHING AND BEER FOR THEIR FRIENDS, LOVERS, AND PARENTS WHO NEVER MADE IT BACK FROM VIETNAM.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A tantalizing archival discovery suggests the perils of historical evidence.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A historian argues that, in Vietnam, America’s cause was just, its arms effective, and its efforts undermined by critics back home, and that this is how things must work in a free society.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How a patch of ground forged a man’s future, stole a part of his soul, and gave it back to him 30 years later</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Powered flight was born exactly one hundred years ago. It changed everything, of course, but most of all, it changed how this nation wages war.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Forty years ago, the USS <span class="typestyle"> Maddox</span> fought the first battle of America’s longest war. How it happened—and even <span class="typestyle"> if</span> it happened—are still fiercely debated. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A search begun in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse 140 years ago continues today as a $100-million-a-year effort to reunite the U.S. military and American families with their missing soldiers.</span></p>

<p>The explosion at the Army Math Center blew in the window near my laboratory desk.</p>

<p><span class="deck">Viewing a transformation that still affects all of us—through the prism of a single year</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How the U. S. military reinvented itself after the Vietnam disaster</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A magazine reporter covered the first American deaths in Vietnam, unaware that the soon-to-explode war would mark America’s awakening to maturity.</span></p>

<p>The late David Halberstam was a journalist, heart and soul, with a distinctive way of writing history.</p>

<p>CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite underwent a dramatic change of heart during the Vietnam War—and in doing so, changed the face of broadcast journalism.</p>

<p>Jan Scruggs fought on multiple fronts to build the Vietnam Memorial, which was once derided as a “black gash” and “Orwellian glop.” His work inspired a nation and helped bring Americans together.</p>

<p>After we published the Papers at the <em>Washington Post</em>, the Supreme Court decision in our favor has underpinned American freedom of the press.</p>

<p>The <em>New York Times</em> reporter who spent months in hiding analyzing the Pentagon Papers remembers how they broke the story.</p>