If you haven't seen this story about Mary Ann Vecchio, the girl in the famous Kent State photo, it's really well worth your time.
Vietnam War
I highlighted Frank McGee in the grave series yesterday. In it, I mentioned his Vietnam War reporting Same Mud Same Blood, about race relations in the Army in Vietnam. So.
The United States will never do enough to compensate Vietnam for the horrible crimes it committed against that country. Those crimes didn't suddenly end in 1973 or 1975. Rather, the.
On January 11, 1968, around 1,000 workers in Saigon walked off the job, protesting the unfair treatment they faced from South Vietnamese government and demonstrating the lack of commitment to democratic unionism from that government, even as the AFL-CIO pushed them and the U.S. government...
This is the grave of William Colby. Born in 1920 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Colby came from a military family. His father was a longtime officer who had served in.
I haven't seen the Ken Burns Vietnam series yet and given my indifference to Burns, not to mention my outright hostility to his anti-intellectual and anti-scholar claims that professional historians.
I know it's fun to read about the intrigues of politics, with its charismatic figures and seemingly missed opportunities, but in terms of South Vietnam and its 1967 battle between Thieu and Ky for control, I hesitate very strongly in believing a Ky victory would...
The great anti-war priest has died at the age of 94. The legendary anti-war priest Father Daniel Berrigan died today at 94. He was a poet, pacifist, educator, social activist,.
This is the grave of Robert McNamara. This is a man who died without any blood on his hands at all. In fact, it's hard to think of an American.
When teaching about postwar America, I always tell my students that just about anything that happened in this nation during the Cold War has its roots in Cold War politics or fed back into Cold War issues. Jacob Hamblin's 2013 book Arming Mother Nature demonstrates...
I tend to believe that events have their roots in structural causes rather than the actions of a single individual. And I confess to not thinking too much about nail.
What happens if LBJ decides to run for reelection in 1968?