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The Vietnam War
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The Vietnam War : an intimate history by From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017. More than forty years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country. We still argue over why we were there, whether we could have won, and who was right and wrong in their response to the conflict. When the war divided the country, it created deep political fault lines that continue to divide us today. Now, continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed collaborations, the authors draw on dozens and dozens of interviews in America and Vietnam to give us the perspectives of people involved at all levels of the war: U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers and their families, high-level officials in America and Vietnam, antiwar protestors, POWs, and many more. The book plunges us into the chaos and intensity of combat, even as it explains the rationale that got us into Vietnam and kept us there for so many years. Rather than taking sides, the book seeks to understand why the war happened the way it did, and to clarify its complicated legacy. Beautifully written and richly illustrated, this is a tour de force that is certain to launch a new national conversation.Call Number: DS557.7.W368 2017ISBN: 9780307700254 -
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War by The largest and most comprehensive study to date of one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history. * Over 900 A-Z entries with extensive cross references after each entry * Biographies of key Vietnamese and American participants * 200 primary source documents * 150 illustrations and 22 mapsCall Number: eBookISBN: 0874369835 -
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War by Vietnam was the most controversial and diverse war in 20th-century American History. Its legacy of confusion and contention continues to mar our understanding of what happened and why - and what Vietnam means for future generations. This volume sets out to shed light on the people, events and actions involved in the war. It contains three types of articles: brief, dictionary-like entries (50 to 1000 words) for easy reference to personalities, military units, and battles; longer articles (1000 to 2500 words) on major figures such as John F. Kennedy, Ho Chi Minh and Henry Kissinger; and extended essays (5000 to 10,000 words) that describe and interpret major themes including The Land and the People of Vietnam, Diplomacy, The Search for Peace The War at Home and The Media. The encyclopaedia is well illustrated with more than 200 maps, photographs and drawings that add important visual information to this text. For ease of use, the encyclopaedia is in alphabetical order with extensive cross-references, blind entries, and bibliographies.Call Number: DS557.7 .E53 1996ISBN: 0132769328 -
The Vietnam War by Call Number: DS557.7.V568 1985ISBN: 0345326318Available in the reference collection, on the main floor of the library
Vietnam War Protests
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The War Within: America's battle over Vietnam by The Vietnam war left a gash in the heart of America that can still be felt today. The War Within is the definitive history of America's internal battle over that war, and it chronicles, as no other book has done, the full story of how a powerful grassroots force--the antiwar movement--changed the course of American history. Tom Wells spent over ten years painstakingly researching government and antiwar-movement documents and interviewing virtually every key player from the Vietnam era--from Dean Rusk, William Westmoreland, and John Ehrlichman to Dave Dellinger, Philip Berrigan, and Daniel Ellsberg. Wells moves from protests at the White House gates to antiwar meeting halls, recreating the activities of the student factions, religious organizations, political splinter groups, and other organizations that waged campaigns of mass protest, draft resistance, civil disobedience, and sometimes political violence. Here, too, are the behind-the-scenes planning sessions of Democratic and Republican administrations as they sought to discredit and subvert the antiwar movement's efforts. Wells demonstrates that Washington took the antiwar movement seriously at every stage of the war and that the movement was instrumental in the eventual withdrawal of U.S. forces from Southeast Asia. He also reveals how the movement's growing influence prompted the Watergate fiasco. And he graphically conveys the internecine conflicts that plagued the antiwar movement and its leaders. In these pages the human drama of the antiwar era unfolds through the words of its participants, both the famous and the forgotten. Wells not only captures the spirit of these tumultuous times but also shows how the events of twenty-five years ago shaped the America of today.Call Number: DS559.6.W45 1994ISBN: 0520083679
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Martin Luther King Jr.: "Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam"
Speech delivered at New York City's Riverside Church on April 4th 1967.
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Telltale Hearts : the origins and impact of the Vietnam antiwar movement by More than two decades after the end of the Vietnam War, America's wounds have yet to heal; the war's divisiveness continues. Yet today, even the most hard-line hawks and doves share the conviction that, for better or worse, the antiwar movement played an important role in turning American opinion against the war, thereby limiting and ultimately ending U.S. military activity in Southeast Asia. In Telltale Hearts, Adam Garfinkle convincingly demonstrates that this widely accepted view is wrong. Garfinkle argues that the movement, even at its radical height, had but a marginal impact on limiting and ending the war and in fact unwittingly helped to prolong it, thereby killing more people on both sides. The movement, in the end, was simply not as important as other factors, such as the contours of normal electoral politics, the ebb and flow of battle, and the devastating misjudgments made by a series of American civil and military leaders. However, by following the movement into the present, the author concludes that it has in fact had a powerful, and greatly underestimated, postwar influence.Call Number: DS559.62.U6G37 1995ISBN: 0312125208
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What is the May 2nd Movement?"The May 2nd Movement was formed to fight against a politics of default, specifically by organizing student protest and revolt against our government's savage war on the people of Vietnam."
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"Doves in a Hawk's Nest: Vietnam and the American Peace Movement: 1965-1975: Part 1"Vietnam Generation Journal 4 (3-4), November 1992.
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Decade of Protest: Political Posters from the United States, Cuba, and Vietnam 1965-1975.Exhibit held at Track 16 Gallery, January 19-March 9, 1996.
The War in the Media
The War in the Media
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Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowFull text for journal articles on television, journalism, film, communications and related fields.
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Walter Cronkite: Changing Attitudes Toward War in VietnamIn an August 7, 2002 NPR broadcast, Cronkite recalls the gradual change in journalistic approach, and the public attitude, toward the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
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Vietnam on TelevisionDavid Hallin. Overview with bibliography. From the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
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Media and the Vietnam War: A Bibliography.From the Sixties Project.