Young, A History of Vietnam Lecture Series (2010)

Stephen B. Young.
A History of Vietnam Lecture Series.
Vietnam Center of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, 2010.

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Lecture Information:

• Stephen B. Young, Law School, University of Minnesota.
• Stephen B. Young - Resume, Law School, University of Minnesota.
• Vietnam Center, Facebook.
• Photo Album, VNC History Lecture Series 2010, Facebook.
• Three titles are given below for each video:
  1. the YouTube video title which includes "Part # of 6";
  2. the title card which appears a few seconds into each video; and
  3. a descriptive title which indicates the years covered by the lecture.
• The lecture series consists of seven YouTube videos:
  1. A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 1 of 6, YouTube.
     • "The Origins of the Vietnamese: Fact and Myth"
     • Vietnam, Pre-History to 938 A.D. (Pre-History to the end of the Third Chinese domination of Vietnam).
  2. A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 2 of 6, YouTube.
     • "The Buddhist Dynasties: Lý, Trần and Lê"
     • Vietnam from 938 to 1433 (from the end of the Third Chinese domination of Vietnam to Lê Lợi).
  3. A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 3 of 6, YouTube.
     • "The Imposition of Chinese Neo-Confucianism under the Lê, Mạc, and Trịnh"
     • Vietnam from 1479 to 1802 (from the Lê dynasty to the end of the Tây Sơn dynasty).
  4. A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 4 of 6, YouTube.
     • "The Tây Sơn Challenge; The Nguyễn Restoration of Orthodoxy; And the Arrival of the West"
     • Vietnam during the 19th Century (from the end of the Tây Sơn dynasty to the Nguyễn dynasty and French colonization).
  5. A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 5 of 6, YouTube.
     • "Vietnam in Modern Times: French Rule and the Rise of Nationalism"
     • Vietnam under the French through the 1930s.
  6. A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 6a of 6, YouTube.
     • "Communism and the Vietnam Wars"
     • Vietnam from the 1940s through 1965 (from World War II through the First Indochina War to the Americanization of the Second Indochina War).
  7. A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 6b of 6, YouTube.
     • "Communism and the Vietnam Wars"
     • Vietnam from 1965 to 1975 (from the Americanization of the Second Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon).
• My notes for each lecture follow below.
• Observation about Wikipedia articles for people who don't read Vietnamese. Many of the English Wikipedia articles on Vietnamese topics are relatively short (for example, that for the poet Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm). In the left margin of the Wikipedia page is a list of other language Wikipedias that have a corresponding article in that language. The one in Vietnamese, labeled "Tiếng Việt", will often be significantly longer, more detailed, than the English language article. Google Chrome browser will translate these Vietnamese articles into adequate English (or perhaps into some other language you prefer).

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A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 1 of 6, YouTube.

• title card: "The Origins of the Vietnamese: Fact and Myth"
• Vietnam, Pre-History to 938 A.D. (Pre-History to the end of the Third Chinese domination of Vietnam).
• History of Vietnam.
• Culture of Vietnam.
• Vietnamese calendar.
• Tết, Vietnamese New Year.
• Lunar calendar.
• Lunisolar calendar.
• Sexagenary cycle, this 60 year cycle is mentioned in a later lecture.
• Yin and Yang.
• Qi.
• Vietnamese people.
• China: Han Chinese.
• List of ethnic groups in Vietnam.
• East Asian cultural sphere.
• I Ching.
• Taoism.
  Taoism in Vietnam.
• Bách Việt, Baiyue, Hundred Yue or Yue.
• Lecture statement: In 939 AD the Viet defeat/expel the Chinese.
  (Details: Ngô Quyền (897–944), founder of the Ngô dynasty, 939–965, leads the Vietnamese to the Battle of Bạch Đằng (938) to defeat the Southern Han which marks the end of the Third Chinese domination of Vietnam, 602–905 or 938.)
• Vietnamese language.
• Vietnamese cuisine.
• Vietnamese clothing.
• Áo dài.
• Religion in Vietnam.
• Vietnamese folk religion.
  Đạo Mẫu, the worship of mother goddesses in Vietnam.
  Three Palaces, Four Palaces (Tam Phủ, Tứ Phủ).
• Âu Cơ, an immortal mountain fairy who married Lạc Long Quân ("Dragon Lord of Lac"), and bore an egg sac that hatched a hundred children known collectively as Bách Việt, ancestors to the Vietnamese people.
• Lạc Long Quân, mythical dragon-king, father of the Vietnamese people, became king in 2793 B.C.
• Kim Qui, the Golden Turtle God.
• Buddhism.
  Mahayana Buddhism.
  Buddhism in Vietnam.
• Trúc Lâm, a Vietnamese Thiền (i.e. zen) sect.
• Đạo Bửu Sơn Kỳ Hương, Buddhist sect originating in the Mekong Delta during or after the reign of Minh Mạng (mid 19th Century).
• Huỳnh Phú Sổ (1920–1947), founder of Hòa Hảo, 1939.
• Đại Việt Quốc dân Đảng, Đại Việt or DVQDD, Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam, founded 1939.
• Đại Việt Quốc dân Đảng, Vietnamese Wikipedia, longer than the English Wikipedia article.
• Đại Việt Quốc Dân Đảng, daivietquocdandang.net.
• Dân Tộc Sinh Tồn.
• Trương Tử Anh (1914–1946), founder of Đại Việt Quốc dân Đảng.
• Đại Việt Duy Dân, founded 01 January 1943.
• Lý Đông A (1921-1947), founder of Đại Việt Duy Dân.
• Cao Đài, established 1926.
• Nguyễn dynasty, 1802–1945.
• Battle of Bạch Đằng (938), end of Chinese imperial domination in Vietnam.
• What does it mean to be Vietnamese?
• Nguyễn Du (1765–1820). The Tale of Kieu. Translated by Huynh Sanh Thong. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Destiny.
  Yuanfen.
• Vietnamese Face Reading. European Physiognomy.
• Geomancy. Feng shui, Chinese geomancy.
• Individualism.
• Neo-Confucianism.
• Intermission. Musical Interlude.
• Matrifocal family.
• Vietnamese family life.
• When did Vietnamese culture emerge?
• Lecture statement: In 1428 Ming soldiers burn Hanoi, destroying records or removing them to China.
  (Details: During the Fourth Chinese domination of Vietnam, 1407–1427, Vietnamese culture is suppressed in which most Vietnamese documents are lost. Lê Lợi (c. 1384 – 1433) leads the Lam Sơn uprising, 1418–1428, which expels the Ming Chinese from Vietnam.)
• Âu Cơ, an immortal mountain fairy who married Lạc Long Quân ("Dragon Lord of Lac"), and bore an egg sac that hatched a hundred children known collectively as Bách Việt, ancestors to the Vietnamese people.
• Lạc Long Quân, mythical dragon-king, father of the Vietnamese people, became king in 2793 B.C.
• Hồng Bàng dynasty, 2879 B.C. – 258 B.C.
• China: Qin Shi Huang (259 BC – 210 BC).
  China: Terracotta Army.
  China: Qin dynasty, 221 BC – 206 BC.
• Animism.
• Âu Lạc, 257 BCE – 179 BCE.
• Nam Việt or Nanyue, 204 BC – 111 BC, established at the end of the Qin dynasty by Zhao Tuo (c. 240 BC – 137 BC), also known as Triệu Đà.
• Triệu dynasty, 204 BC – 111 BC.
• China: Han dynasty, 202 BC–9 AD; 25 AD–220 AD.
  China: Southward expansion of the Han dynasty.
• Han conquest of Nanyue, 111 BC.
  First Chinese domination of Vietnam, 111 BC – 40 AD.
• Trưng Sisters (c. AD 12 – c. AD 43), expelled the Han Chinese in 40 AD.
• Trung sisters' rebellion, 40–43.
• Second Chinese domination of Vietnam, 43–544 followed the suppression of the Trung sisters' rebellion.
• Buddhism in Vietnam.
• Lý Nam Đế (503–548), founder of the Early Lý dynasty, 544–602.
• Third Chinese domination of Vietnam, 602–905 or 938.
• China: Tang dynasty, 618–907.
  China: Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, 10th century.
  China: Song dynasty, 960–1279.
• Ngô Quyền (897–944), founder of the Ngô dynasty, 939–965.
• Battle of Bạch Đằng (938), marks the end of Third Chinese domination of Vietnam.
• Anarchy of the 12 Warlords or "Thập Nhị Sứ Quân Rebellion," 966–968.
• Đinh Bộ Lĩnh (924–979), founder of the Đinh dynasty, 968–980.
• Lê Hoàn (941–1005), founder of the Early Lê dynasty, 980–1009.

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A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 2 of 6, YouTube.

• title card: "The Buddhist Dynasties: Lý, Trần and Lê"
• Vietnam from 938 to 1433 (from the end of the Third Chinese domination of Vietnam to Lê Lợi).
• History of Vietnam.
• Nation state.
• Buddhism in Vietnam.
• Yin and Yang.
• Taoism in Vietnam.
• Animism.
• Easter Offensive, March – October 1972.
• 1975 Spring Offensive.
• China: Tang dynasty, 618–907.
  China: Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, 10th century.
  China: Song dynasty, 960–1279.
• Neo-Confucianism.
  Filial piety.
  For a discussion of hieu and on see Jamieson, Understanding Vietnam (1993), pages 16-17.
• Ngô Quyền (897–944), founder of the Ngô dynasty, 939–965.
• Anarchy of the 12 Warlords or "Thập Nhị Sứ Quân Rebellion," 966–968.
• Đinh Bộ Lĩnh (924–979), founder of the Đinh dynasty, 968–980.
• Lê Hoàn (941–1005), founder of the Early Lê dynasty, 980–1009.
• Lý Công Uẩn (974–1028), (r. 1009–1028), Emperor of Đại Cồ Việt, founder of the Later Lý dynasty, 1009–1225; also known as Đại Việt Hoàng Đế (Wikipedia says his posthumous imperial title was "Thần Võ Hoàng Đế"), Giao Chỉ Công Vượng(?) by the Chinese, Nam Bin Vượng(?) by the Chinese, and Lý Thái Tổ (royal title).
• Later Lý dynasty, 1009–1225.
• Edict on the Transfer of the Capital, 1010.
• Thăng Long, "Rising Dragon," the city later known as Hà Nội (Hanoi).
• Vạn Hạnh (938–1018), Buddhist monk who was a teacher and patron of Lý Công Uẩn / Lý Thái Tổ.
• Khuông Việt (933–1011), Buddhist monk, poet.
• Lý Thánh Tông (1023–1072), third Emperor of the Lý dynasty, 1054–1072.
• Đại Việt (literally "Great Viet"), the name of Vietnam for the periods 1054–1400 and 1428–1804.
• Nam tiến ("southward advance" or "march to the south"), the southward expansion of the territory of Vietnam from the 11th century to the mid-18th century.
• Champa.
• One Pillar Pagoda, Hanoi.
Lý Nhân Tông (1066–1128), fourth Emperor of the Lý dynasty 1072–1128.
• Quốc Tử Giám, the first Vietnamese university established in 1076.
• Lý–Song War, 1075–1077.
  Wang Anshi (1021–1086), chancellor of the Song dynasty, 1070-1074 and 1075–1076.
• Lý Thường Kiệt (1019–1105), Vietnamese general and admiral during the Lý Dynasty.
• Nam quốc sơn hà, Mountains and Rivers of the Southern Country, 1076.
• Names of Vietnam.
• Annam, the "Protectorate General to Pacify the South".
  (The name Annam originated as the name of a Chinese southern province which included the Red River Delta region. This explains the later irritation of the Vietnamese at the use of this name by the French; it is a name of foreign domination.)
• Lý dynasty: Decline.
• Lý dynasty: Rise of Trần clan, 1180s to 1220s.
  Lý Cao Tông (1173–1210), seventh Emperor of the Lý dynasty 1175–1210, weak emperor.
• Lý Huệ Tông (1194–1226), penultimate Emperor of the Lý dynasty 1211–1224, weak emperor.
• Trần Thủ Độ (1194–1264), general and grand chancellor; maneuvered the Trần family to succeed the Lý dynasty; uncle of Trần Thái Tông (1218–1277), birth name Trần Cảnh, first Emperor of the Trần dynasty 1226–1258.
• Lý Chiêu Hoàng (1218–1278), the ninth and last sovereign of the Lý dynasty 1224–1225; the only empress regnant in the history of Vietnam; married Trần Cảnh and abdicated in favor of her husband who thereby became the first Emperor of the Trần dynasty.
• Trần dynasty, 1225-1400.
• Lecturer reads some stories from the time of the Lý dynasty.
• Intermission. Musical Interlude.
• Trần Thủ Độ (1194–1264), suppressed remnants of the Lý dynasty.
• Elimination of non-communist nationalists, 1946.
  (This was distinct from the later North Vietnamese (DRV) executions of "landlords" under land reform during the 1950s.)
• Trúc Lâm, a Vietnamese Thiền (i.e. zen) sect.
• Mongol invasions of Vietnam, 1258, 1285 and 1287–88.
  Battle of Bạch Đằng (1288), defeat of the Mongols; Mongol Navy destroyed.
• Trần Hưng Đạo (1228–1300), military commander of Đại Việt during the Trần Dynasty.
• Lecturer reads some poems from the Trần dynasty.
• Decline of the Trần dynasty.
• Nam tiến ("southward advance" or "march to the south"), the southward expansion of the territory of Vietnam from the 11th century to the mid-18th century.
• Hồ Quý Ly (1336-1407?), high official in the Trần dynasty; overthrows the Trần dynasty; first emperor of the Hồ dynasty; renames the country Đại Ngu.
• Hồ dynasty, 1400–1407.
• China: Song dynasty, 960–1279.
  China: Yuan dynasty, 1271–1368.
  China: Ming dynasty, 1368–1644.
• Ming–Hồ War, 1400–1407; Ming Chinese invasion of Vietnam; overthrows the Hồ dynasty; initiates the Fourth Chinese domination of Vietnam.
• Fourth Chinese domination of Vietnam, 1407–1427.
• Later Trần dynasty period of 1407 to 1413.
• Lam Sơn uprising, 1418-1427, uprising led by Lê Lợi against Ming rule.
• Lê Lợi (c. 1384–1433), Emperor of Đại Việt, 1428–1433; founder of the Later Lê dynasty; renamed the country back to Đại Việt and moved the capital back to Thăng Long.
• Lê dynasty (Later Lê dynasty), 1427–1527 and 1533–1789.
• Nguyễn Trãi (1380–1442), poet.
• Nguyễn Trãi, "Bình Ngô đại cáo," 1428 ("Great proclamation upon the pacification of the Wu").
• Huynh Sanh Thong, editor and translator. Heritage of Vietnamese Poetry. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
  [Amazon.com.]
  A more recently published anthology of Vietnamese poetry also edited by Huynh Sanh Thong is:
  Huynh Sanh Thong, editor and translator. An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems: From the Eleventh Through the Twentieth Centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 3 of 6, YouTube.

• title card: "The Imposition of Chinese Neo-Confucianism under the Lê, Mạc, and Trịnh"
• Vietnam from 1479 to 1802 (from the Lê dynasty to the end of the Tây Sơn dynasty)
• History of Vietnam.
• Lê dynasty (Later Lê dynasty), 1427–1527 and 1533–1789.
• Nguyễn Trãi (1380–1442), poet.
• For a discussion of Nghia see Jamieson, Understanding Vietnam (1993), page 19.
• For a discussion of Nhan see Jamieson, Understanding Vietnam (1993), page 20.
• Neo-Confucianism.
• Filial piety.
  For a discussion of Hieu see Jamieson, Understanding Vietnam (1993), pages 16-17.
• Lê Thánh Tông (1442–1497), Emperor of Đại Việt 1460–1497.
  Lecturer: "He begins the process of the second phase of Vietnamese history ... bringing in a system from China and backing away from this traditional Vietnamese value system, belief system, and set of practices.... The distinction is between a system rooted in individual moral character and a Chinese system which is rooted in formal obedience to the family and the state.... Nhan and Nghia versus Hieu."
• China: Song dynasty, 960–1279.
• What happened in 1479? (This was during the reign of the notable emperor Lê Thánh Tông.)
• Ngô Sĩ Liên (lived during 15th century), historian.
• Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư (Complete Annals of Đại Việt), compiled by Ngô Sĩ Liên, finished in 1479, a new official history of Vietnam.
• Regions of Vietnam:
  • Bắc Kỳ, Northern Vietnam
  • Trung Kỳ, Central Vietnam
  • Nam Kỳ, Southern Vietnam
• Geographical Regions of Vietnam:
  • Northern Vietnam
  • Central Vietnam
  • Southern Vietnam
• List of regions of Vietnam.
  This is a current classification of the regions of Vietnam.
• Lê Thánh Tông: The conquest of neighbors.
  Champa.
  Cham–Vietnamese War (1471).
• Lê Thánh Tông: The rise of Confucianism.
• Lecturer reads a sample of Confucian rules; poems by Lê Thánh Tông.
• Lê dynasty: Mạc Đăng Dung usurps the throne, 1527.
• Mạc Đăng Dung (1483?–1541), a high official in the Lê dynasty; established the Mạc dynasty.
• Mạc dynasty, 1527–1677.
• Nguyễn Kim (1476–1545), ancestor of the Nguyễn lords; starts war with Mạc dynasty; restores Lê dynasty in the south.
• Nguyễn lords, 1558–1777, ruled southern Vietnam.
• Trịnh Kiểm (1503–1570), founder of the Trịnh lords; son-in-law of Nguyễn Kim.
• Trịnh lords, 1545–1787, ruled northern Vietnam.
• Lê–Mạc War, 1533–1677. In 1592 the forces supporting the rival Lê dynasty (i.e., the Nguyễn and Trịnh lords) reconquer Thang Long, the capital of Mạc dynasty, marking the end of Southern and Northern Dynasties Period.
• Mạc dynasty: The last 80 years, until 1677.
• Nguyễn Hoàng (1525–1613), the first of the Nguyễn lords who ruled the southern provinces of Vietnam, 1558–1613; considered the founder of the Nguyễn dynasty, 1802-1945.
• Nam tiến ("southward advance" or "march to the south"), the southward expansion of the territory of Vietnam from the 11th century to the mid-18th century.
• Nguyễn Phúc Nguyên (1563–1635), succeeded Nguyễn Hoàng, reigned 1613–1635.
• Trịnh–Nguyễn War(s), 1627–1673.
• Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm (1491–1585), poet, known as Trạng Trình.
• Sấm Trạng Trình (The Prophecies of Trạng Trình), prophetic poem by Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm / Trạng Trình.
• Lecturer reads some poems by Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm / Trạng Trình.
• Trịnh lords: The Trịnh–Nguyễn War.
• Artillery of the Nguyễn lords.
  European military technology contributed to the Nguyễn lords' success during the 17th century Trịnh–Nguyễn Wars.
• China: Transition from Ming to Qing, 1618–1683.
  China: Qing dynasty, 1636–1912.
• Christianity in Vietnam.
  Catholic Church in Vietnam.
• Intermission. Musical Interlude.
• Trịnh lords: The Long Peace.
  Discussion of Trịnh misrule during 1600s and 1700s.
• Francis Xavier: South East Asia, 1546.
• First Vietnamese Catholic church established in Đà Nẵng, 1615.
• Alexandre de Rhodes (1591–1660), French Jesuit missionary and lexicographer.
• Quốc Ngữ, Vietnamese Latin alphabet.
• Gia Ðịnh, later Saigon, later Ho Chi Minh City.
• Chợ Lớn.
• Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh (1650–1700), founder of Gia Ðịnh, 1698.
• Tây Sơn dynasty, 1778–1802.
  • Nguyễn Huệ (1753–1792), king of northern Vietnam, Emperor of Tây Sơn dynasty, 1788–1792, reign name Quang Trung.
  • Nguyễn Nhạc (d. 1788), king of central Vietnam, King of Tây Sơn, 1776–1778; Emperor of Tây Sơn dynasty, 1778–1788.
  • Nguyễn Lữ (d. 1787), king of the South.
• Nguyễn Phúc Ánh (1762–1820), also known as Nguyễn Ánh; later known as Gia Long, Emperor of Đại Việt, 1802–1804; Emperor of Việt Nam, 1804–1820; founder of the Nguyễn dynasty.
• Pierre Pigneau de Behaine (1741–1799), French Catholic priest; acquired military assistance for Nguyễn Ánh which contributed to the establishment of the Nguyễn dynasty.
• French assistance to Nguyễn Ánh.
• Treaty of Versailles (1787).
• Nguyễn Phúc Cảnh (1780–1801), also known as Prince Cảnh; visited France in 1787.
• France–Vietnam relations.
• Nguyễn Huệ: Overthrow of Trịnh Lords, 1786–1787.
• Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa, 1788–1789.
  Nguyễn Huệ: Defeat of Qing China, 1789.
• Sexagenary cycle: Sexagenary years.
  Gregorian year 1788 is Number 45, Mậu Thân, in the Sexagenary year cycle.
  Associations: Yang Earth Monkey.
• 1788 - 360 = 1428, year that the Ming Chinese were expelled by Lê Lợi.
• 1788 + (3*60) = 1968, year of the Tet Offensive, a defeat for the Communists.
• Nguyễn Huệ: National reforms.
• Nguyễn Huệ: The fate of Tây Sơn dynasty.
• Tây Sơn dynasty: Decline and fall.

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Logevall, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam (2012)

Fredrik Logevall.
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam.
New York: Random House, 2012.

Book Information: Publisher; Pulitzer Prize 2013; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Fredrik Logevall, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
• Fredrik Logevall (b. 1963), Wikipedia.
• Fredrik Logevall, C-SPAN.org.
• Fredrik Logevall. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Fredrik Logevall. The Origins of the Vietnam War. Pearson Education Ltd., 2001. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Mark Atwood Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall, editors. The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall. America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2009.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video: Fredrik Logevall

• I limited this list to videos related to the topics of Embers of War (which focuses on the period 1940 to 1959). Therefore, I excluded videos that are mainly about the U.S. involvement in Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s and other historical topics.
• Fredrik Logevall, William I. Hitchcock, John Prados, Christian F. Ostermann, "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam," Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., 05 September 2012.
  • Event Information and Video, Wilson Center.
  • William Hitchcock, Department of History, University of Virginia.
  • William I. Hitchcock (b. 1965), Wikipedia.
  • John Prados, johnprados.com.
  • John Prados, Wikipedia.
  • National Security Archive, George Washington University.
  • John Prados. Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Christian F. Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center.
  • Christian F. Ostermann, National Security Archive, George Washington University.
• Fredrik Logevall, "Embers of War," Kansas City Public Library, BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 06 September 2012.
  • Event Information, Kansas City Public Library.
• Fredrik Logevall, "Why Vietnam? Explaining the War," Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, University of Texas at Austin, 18 September 2012.
  • Event Information and Video, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law.
  • Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, University of Texas at Austin.
• Fredrik Logevall, "Embers of War: Why Were We in Vietnam?," The Schemel Forum, The University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 27 February 2013.
  • The Schemel Forum, The University of Scranton.
  • Fredrik Logevall, "What Really Happened in Vietnam: The North, the South, and the American Defeat," Foreign Affairs, November/December 2012.
• Fredrik Logevall, "The Meaning of the Vietnam War," 2013 Olin Lecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 07 June 2013.
  • 2013 Olin Lecture: The Meaning of the Vietnam War, CornellCast.
  • Southeast Asia Program, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University.
  • George McTurnan Kahin (1918–2000), Wikipedia.
  • George McT. Kahin. Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Fredrik Logevall and Gideon Rose, "The Decline and Fall of Colonial Vietnam," Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 18 December 2013.
  • Event Information and Video, Council on Foreign Relations.
  • "Fredrik Logevall Wins CFR’s 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award for Embers of War," Council on Foreign Relations, 16 December 2013.
  • Gideon Rose, Council on Foreign Relations.
  • Gideon Rose (b. 1963), Wikipedia.
• Fredrik Logevall, "History and Policy Makers," Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 21 January 2015.
  • The Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University.
• Fredrik Logevall, "The Mystery of the Vietnam War," Department of History, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 05 March 2015.
  • Department of History, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
• Fredrik Logevall, "The Meaning of the Vietnam War," Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 09 November 2017.
  • Events at the Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum, 2017.
  • Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum.
  • Fredrik Logevall, "Kennedy and What Might Have Been," pages 90-96. In Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns. The Vietnam War: An Intimate History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House), 2017.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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• French Indochina, 1887 – 1954.
• First Indochina War, December 1946 – July 1954.
• French colonial empire: Decolonization.
• Role of the United States in the Vietnam War.
• Cold War (1953–1962).
• Battle of Dien Bien Phu, March – May, 1954.
• 1954 Geneva Conference, April – July, 1954.
• War in Vietnam (1954–1959).
• Vietnam War (Second Indochina War), November 1955 – April 1975.
• Graham Greene, The Quiet American, 1955.
• Thomas A. Dooley, Deliver Us From Evil, 1956.
  (This Doctor Tom Dooley is not to be confused with Tom Dula (1845–1868), subject of the legend and the later hit song Tom Dooley (1958) by The Kingston Trio; Search YouTube: Tom Dooley. Search YouTube: Dr Tom Dooley.)

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Jamieson, Understanding Vietnam (1993)

Neil L. Jamieson.
Understanding Vietnam.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Neil Jamieson, Vietnam Studies Group.

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Vietnam Studies in the USA:

• Vietnam Studies Group.
• Southeast Asian Studies: Viet Nam, Research Guide, University of Washington.
• Association for Asian Studies.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Culture of Vietnam.
• History of Vietnam.

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• Jamieson's book Understanding Vietnam describes Vietnamese culture by exploring Vietnamese literature, mostly during the twentieth century up to the 1980s. The following are some of the writers and works discussed in the book, and also some political figures. Note that some articles are on the Vietnamese Wikipedia site; Google Chrome browser easily (if perhaps badly) translates these to English. Also, I have not listed below people and groups like Phan Bội Châu, Ho Chi Minh, Lê Duẩn, Ngo Dinh Diem, the Việt Minh or the National Liberation Front because they are not discussed in Jamieson's book. Jamieson's book isn't about political or military matters as with many books written by Americans about Vietnam.
• The Tale of Kieu by Nguyễn Du (1765–1820), a classical epic poem.
• Nguyễn Khuyến (1835–1909), mandarin, anti-colonial nationalist, poet.
• Trần Tế Xương (1870-1907), poet.
• Paul Doumer (1857–1932), Governor-General of French Indochina, 1897-1902; President of France, June 1931 – May 1932.
• Cường Để (1882-1951), Prince.
• Phan Chu Trinh (1871-1926), mandarin, nationalist, educator, founder of Đông Kinh Nghĩa Thục.
• Đông Kinh Nghĩa Thục (Tonkin Free School), founded March 1907, a modern nationalist school in Hanoi, closed by the French.
• Nguyễn Đình Chiểu (1822–1888), poet, anti-colonial nationalist, author of Lục Vân Tiên, the other classical epic poem.
• Thành Thái (1869–1954), Emperor 1889–1907.
• Ngô Đình Khả (1856–1923), mandarin, Catholic, nationalist; a founder of Quốc Học Academy, Huế; father of Ngô Đình Thục, Ngo Dinh Diem, Ngô Đình Nhu, Ngô Đình Cẩn.
• Quốc Học Academy, Huế, founded 1896.
• Nguyễn Văn Vĩnh (1882–1936), journalist, translator, founded Indochina Journal.
• Huỳnh Tịnh Của (1834–1907), scholar, translator, Catholic convert.
• Trương Vĩnh Ký (1837-1898), known as Pétrus Ky and Jean-Baptiste Pétrus, scholar, translator, Catholic convert.
• Trần Trọng Kim (1883–1953), scholar, educator, textbook author.
• Phạm Quỳnh (1892–1945), founded periodical South Wind.
• Hoàng Ngọc Phách (1896-1973), author of Tố Tâm (1925), an early Vietnamese novel.
• Phan Khôi (1887-1959), poet, "Old Love".
• Nguyễn Tường Tam (1906–1963), known as Nhất Linh, editor of periodical Mores.
• Thế Lữ (1907–1989), poet. Wikiquote.
• Khái Hưng, In the Midst of Spring (1933), novel.
• Khái Hưng (1896–1947), birth name Trần Khánh Giư, novelist.
• Self-Strength Literary Movement, Tự Lực văn đoàn. [Vietnamese Wikipedia.]
• Nguyễn Công Hoan (1903–1977), novelist.
• Nguyễn Công Hoan, Golden Branches, Leaves of Jade (1934).
• Nhất Linh, Breaking the Ties (1935).
• Nguyễn Công Hoan, Miss Minh, The Schoolteacher (1936).
• Phạm Văn Đồng (1906–2000), Prime Minister of North Vietnam, 1955–1976; Prime Minister of Vietnam, 1976–1987.
• Trường Chinh (1907–1988), communist political leader.
• Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911–2013), military leader.
• Ngô Xuân Diệu (1916–1985), known as Xuân Diệu, poet.
• Chế Lan Viên (1920–1989), poet.
• Cù Huy Cận (1919–2005), poet.
• Lưu Trọng Lư (1912–1991), poet.
• Hoai Thanh (1909 -1982), birth name Nguyen Duc Nguyen, edited a famous poetry anthology published in 1941.
• Nhân Văn – Giai Phẩm affair, 1955–1958.

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• I compiled other lists of Wikipedia articles related to Vietnam in my posts for:
  • Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (1972);
  • Karnow, Vietnam: A History (1997);
  • FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972).

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FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972)

Frances FitzGerald.
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972.
New York: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company (Hachette Book Group), 2002.

Book Information: Publisher; Pulitzer Prize 1973; Bancroft Prize 1973; National Book Award 1973; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Frances FitzGerald, francesfitzgerald.net.
• Frances FitzGerald, The New Yorker.
• Frances FitzGerald (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
• Frances FitzGerald, C-SPAN.org.
• Frances FitzGerald. America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1979.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frances FitzGerald. Cities on a Hill. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frances FitzGerald. Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frances FitzGerald. The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Desmond FitzGerald (1910–1967), Wikipedia; father of Frances FitzGerald.
• Marietta Peabody Tree (1917–1991), Wikipedia; mother of Frances FitzGerald.
• Jim Sterba. Frankie's Place: A Love Story. New York: Grove Press, 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video: Frances FitzGerald

• Frances FitzGerald and Clete Roberts, "Frances Fitzgerald: Author of Fire In the Lake, Talks about Covering the Vietnam War," Vietnam Reconsidered: Lessons from the War conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, February 1983.
  • Clete Roberts (1912–1984), Wikipedia.
• William Hammond, Jerrold Schecter, Nguyen Tien Hung, Frances FitzGerald, Guenter Lewy, Robert Miller, "Ending the Vietnam War," Richard Nixon Symposium, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, C-SPAN.org, 21 November 1987.
  (Frances FitzGerald's remarks begin at times 1:05:05 and 1:50:45.
  Note that the C-SPAN.org website has several other videos of sessions from this Richard Nixon Symposium, 19–21 November 1987.)
  • William Hammond, Wikipedia.
  • William M. Hammond. Public Affairs: the Military and the Media, 1962-1968: United States Army in Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, Government Printing Office, 1988.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Nguyễn Tiến Hưng (b. 1935), Wikipedia.
  • Nguyen Tien Hung and Jerrold L. Schecter. The Palace File. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Guenter Lewy (b. 1923), Wikipedia.
  • Guenter Lewy. America in Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Robert Hopkins Miller (b. 1927), Wikipedia.
• Paul Berman, Morris Dickstein, Frances FitzGerald, Howard Lentner, Michael Lind, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Ronald Steel, William J. Vanden Heuvel, "Post World War II America," ["The Cold War, Vietnam & A Post Communist World,"] The Center for the Humanities, City University of New York, C-SPAN.org, 16 May 1997.
  • The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
  • Paul Berman (b. 1949), Wikipedia.
  • Morris Dickstein (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
  • Howard H. Lentner [obituary], Department of Political Science, Baruch College, CUNY.
  • Michael Lind (b. 1962), Wikipedia.
  • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007), Wikipedia.
  • Ronald Steel (b. 1931), Wikipedia.
  • William J. vanden Heuvel (b. 1930), Wikipedia.
• Kevin Buckley, Frances FitzGerald, David Greenway, Christie Hefner, Marlene Sanders, Sydney Schanberg, James Sterba, "Reporting Vietnam Panel 1," Newseum New York, Freedom Forum, C-SPAN.org, 10 December 1998.
  • Kevin Buckley, "McNamara's Lethal Illusions," The Daily Beast, 06 July 2009.
  • Kevin Buckley. Panama: The Whole Story. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • David Greenway, C-SPAN.org.
  • Christie Hefner (b. 1952), Wikipedia.
  • Marlene Sanders (1931–2015), Wikipedia.
  • Sydney Schanberg (1934–2016), Wikipedia.
  • James P. Sterba, Wikipedia.
  • Jim Sterba's Home Page, jimsterba.com.
  • Reporting Vietnam: Part One: American Journalism, 1959-1969. Edited by Milton J. Bates, Lawrence Lichty, Paul Miles, Ronald H. Spector, Marilyn Young. New York: Library of America (Literary Classics of the United States), 1998.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Reporting Vietnam: Part Two: American Journalism, 1969-1975. Edited by Milton J. Bates, Lawrence Lichty, Paul Miles, Ronald H. Spector, Marilyn Young. New York: Library of America (Literary Classics of the United States), 1998.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frances FitzGerald, Peter Kann, Brian Lamb, "Reporting Vietnam," Booknotes, C-SPAN.org, 06 January 1999.
  • Peter R. Kann (b. 1942), Wikipedia.
  • Reporting Vietnam: Part One: American Journalism, 1959-1969. Edited by Milton J. Bates, Lawrence Lichty, Paul Miles, Ronald H. Spector, Marilyn Young. New York: Library of America (Literary Classics of the United States), 1998.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Reporting Vietnam: Part Two: American Journalism, 1969-1975. Edited by Milton J. Bates, Lawrence Lichty, Paul Miles, Ronald H. Spector, Marilyn Young. New York: Library of America (Literary Classics of the United States), 1998.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frances FitzGerald, Fredrik Logevall, Robert Scheer, "Vietnam Reconsidered," Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 30 April 2000.
  • Fredrik Logevall, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
  • Fredrik Logevall (b. 1963), Wikipedia.
  • Fredrik Logevall. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Fredrik Logevall. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam. New York: Random House, 2012.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Robert Scheer (b. 1936), Wikipedia.
  • Robert Scheer. How the United States Got Involved in Vietnam. Santa Barbara, California: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1965.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Roger Angell, Peter Canby, William Finnegan, Frances FitzGerald, Philip Gourevitch, David Halberstam, "Annals of War," The New Yorker Magazine 75th Anniversary Festival, New York, BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 06 May 2000.
  • Roger Angell (b. 1920), Wikipedia.
  • Peter Canby, The New Yorker.
  • William Finnegan (b. 1963), Wikipedia.
  • Philip Gourevitch (b. 1961), Wikipedia.
  • David Halberstam (1934–2007), Wikipedia.
• Frances FitzGerald, Chris Hedges, Jonathan Schell, "The U.S. at War in the Nuclear Age," The Nation Institute, New School University, New York, BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 03 March 2005.
  • The Nation Institute.
  • The New School.
  • Chris Hedges (b. 1954), Wikipedia.
  • Jonathan Schell (1943–2014), Wikipedia.
• Frances FitzGerald, Dan Rather, Stephen S. Bell, John Fisher Burns, Brian Williams, "Vietnam and the Presidency - The Media and the Role of Public Opinion," John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Boston, C-SPAN.org, 11 March 2006.
  • Event Information, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.
  • Dan Rather (b. 1931), Wikipedia.
  • Steve Bell (b. 1935), Wikipedia.
  • John Fisher Burns (b. 1944), Wikipedia.
  • Brian Williams (b. 1959), Wikipedia.
• Dorothy Fall, Frances FitzGerald, Jonathan Schell, Ron Steinman, "Media Coverage of the War in Vietnam and Beyond," Barnes and Noble Booksellers, New York City, BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 28 March 2007.
  • Bernard B. Fall (1926–1967), Wikipedia.
  • Dorothy Fall. Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2006.
    [Publisher; Book Website; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Jonathan Schell (1943–2014), Wikipedia.
  • Jonathan Schell. The Real War: The Classic Reporting on the Vietnam War. New York: Pantheon Books, 1987. New York: Da Capo Press (Hachette Books Group), 2000.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com 2000.]
  • Ron Steinman, C-SPAN.org.
  • 1967 in the Vietnam War.
  • 1967 in the United States.
• Frances FitzGerald, Victor Navasky, David Rieff, George Soros, Andras Szanto, Drew Westen, "What Orwell Didn't Know," Miami Book Fair International, BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 11 November 2007.
  • Andras Szanto, editor. What Orwell Didn’t Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics. New York: PublicAffairs (Hachette Books Group), 2007.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • George Orwell (1903–1950), "Politics and the English Language," 1946.
  • Victor Saul Navasky (b. 1932), Wikipedia.
  • David Rieff (b. 1952), Wikipedia.
  • George Soros (b. 1930), Wikipedia.
  • András Szántó (b. 1964), Wikipedia.
  • Drew Westen, Wikipedia.
• Frances FitzGerald, Fredrik Logevall, Lien-Hang Nguyen, James M. Lindsay, "Fifty Years After the Tet Offensive: Lessons From the Vietnam War," Council on Foreign Relations, 08 February 2018.
  • YouTube Video.
  • Fredrik Logevall, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
  • Fredrik Logevall (b. 1963), Wikipedia.
  • Fredrik Logevall. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Fredrik Logevall. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam. New York: Random House, 2012.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Lien-Hang Nguyen, Department of History, Columbia University.
  • Lien-Hang Nguyen, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
  • Lien-Hang Nguyen. Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • James M. Lindsay, Council on Foreign Relations.
  • Tet Offensive, began 30 January 1968, Wikipedia.
• Frances FitzGerald, Phil Klay, Lucian Truscott, "Writing About War," Milford Readers and Writers Festival, Milford, Pennsylvania, BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 29 September 2018.
  • Writing About War, Milford Readers and Writers Festival, 29 September 2018.
  • Milford Readers and Writers Festival.
  • Phil Klay (b. 1983), Wikipedia.
  • Phil Klay. Redeployment. New York: Penguin Books, 2015.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Lucian K. Truscott IV (b. 1947), Wikipedia.
  • Lucian K. Truscott IV. Dress Grey. New York: Doubleday, 1978. New York: Signet, 1997. Open Road Media, 2014.
    [Publisher 2014; Google Books 1997; Google Books 2014; Amazon.com 1978; Amazon.com 1997.]

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Other Video:

• Sean Sculley, "The Vietnam War Era," U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, Lectures in History, C-SPAN.org, 14 April 2011.
  (This lecture is a discussion of an excerpt from FitzGerald's Fire in the Lake.)
  • LTC Seanegan Sculley, Department of History, U.S. Military Academy.
  • Frances FitzGerald, "A Clash of Cultures," in Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Vietnam War Anthology, Third Edition, edited by Andrew J. Rotter. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    This essay is an extract from FitzGerald's book Fire in the Lake.
• I collected more videos related to the Vietnam War in my posts for:
  • Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (1972);
  • Karnow, Vietnam: A History (1997).

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Vietnam.
• Culture of Vietnam.
• History of Vietnam.
• French Indochina, 1887 – 1954.
• First Indochina War, December 1946 – July 1954.
• Vietnam War (Second Indochina War), November 1955 – April 1975.
• Communist Party of Vietnam, founded February 1930.
• History of Communist Party of Vietnam.
• Việt Minh, founded May 1941.
• South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam), 1955 – 1975.
• Viet Cong, National Liberation Front (NLF), founded December 1960.
• Buddhist crisis, South Vietnam, May – November 1963.
• Thích Quảng Đức: Self-immolation, 11 June 1963.
• 1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état, November 1963.
• Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (1908–1976), Prime Minister of South Vietnam, November 1963 – January 1964.
• Dương Văn Minh ("Big Minh") (1916–2001), Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, South Vietnam, November 1963 – January 1964.
• Nguyễn Khánh (1927–2013), Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, South Vietnam, January 1964 – February 1965.
• South Vietnam government of Thieu / Ky / Co established in June 1965.
  • Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (1923–2001).
  • Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (1930–2011).
  • Nguyễn Hữu Có (1925–2012).
• Declaration of Honolulu, 1966, February 1966.
• Buddhist Uprising of 1966.
• South Vietnamese Constitutional Assembly election, 1966, 11 September 1966.
• Operation Cedar Falls, January 1967.
• Guam Conference, 20 March 1967.
• South Vietnamese presidential election, 1967, 03 September 1967.
• Tet Offensive, began 30 January 1968.
• Cambodian Campaign, April – July 1970.
• Operation Lam Son 719, February – March 1971.
• FitzGerald finished writing Fire in the Lake in 1971. Lam Son 719 is the last event she discusses; but, of course, particular events are not the main focus of the book.

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• The following scholars/writers contributed to FitzGerald's interpretation:
• Paul Mus (1902-1969) wrote books about Vietnam.
• Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) wrote books about colonialism.
• Octave Mannoni (1899–1989) wrote a book about colonialism.

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• I compiled other lists of Wikipedia articles related to the Vietnam War in my posts for:
  • Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (1972);
  • Karnow, Vietnam: A History (1997).

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Karnow, Vietnam: A History (1997)

Stanley Karnow.
Vietnam: A History, Second Revised and Updated Edition.
New York: Penguin Books, 1997.

Previous editions:
First Edition: New York: Viking Press, 1983.
Revised and Updated Edition: New York: Penguin Books, 1991.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Stanley Karnow (1925–2013), Wikipedia.
• Stanley Karnow, C-SPAN.org.
• Stanley Karnow, Penguin Random House.
• Stanley Karnow. In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines. New York: Random House, 1989.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video: Stanley Karnow

• Stanley Karnow, "Vietnam: A History," Greystone's American History Store, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 06 July 2001.
• David Halberstam, Bernard Kalb, Stanley Karnow, Barry Zorthian, "1968 and the Vietnam War," Freedom Forum Newseum, Arlington, Virginia, C-SPAN.org, 30 April 1998.
  • Newseum, newseum.org, Washington, D.C.
  • Newseum, Wikipedia.
  • David Halberstam (1934–2007), Wikipedia.
  • Bernard Kalb (b. 1922), Wikipedia.
  • Barry Zorthian (1920–2010), Wikipedia.
• Garrick Utley, Dennis Harter, Le Van Bang, Virginia Foote, Stanley Karnow, Frederick Z. Brown, "Vietnam Today," Discovery Channel Forum, C-SPAN.org, 25 April 1995.
  • Garrick Utley (1939–2014), Wikipedia.
  • Dennis Harter, C-SPAN.org.
  • Le Van Bang, Ambassador of Vietnam to the United States, May 1997 - 2001?
  • Virginia B. Foote, President and CEO, Bay Global Strategies.
  • Virginia Foote, American Chamber of Commerce in Hanoi.
  • Frederick Z. Brown. Second Chance: The United States and Indochina in the 1990s. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1989.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • History of Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies: Fred Brown was the Associate Director of Southeast Asia Studies Program, 1991–2005.
  • Johns Hopkins SAIS Southeast Asia Studies Program.
  • Frederick Z. Brown, Foreign Affairs Oral History Project, The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training.
    Copy at Library of Congress.
  • Frederick Z. Brown, "Vietnam Since the War (1975-1995)," Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1995.
  • Frederick Z. Brown, "Vietnam's Transformations: War, Development and Reform." In Legacy of Engagement in Southeast Asia, edited by Ann Marie Murphy, Bridget Welsh. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008. Pages 72-112.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Frederick Z. Brown, "Rapprochement Between Vietnam and the United States," Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs, Volume 32, Number 3, pages 317-342, December 2010.
• Michael Armacost, Peter Arnett, Stephen Hess, Marvin Kalb, Stanley Karnow, Ted Koppel, Daniel Schorr, Barry Zorthian, "The Role of the Press During War," Brookings Institution, C-SPAN.org, 31 October 2001.
  • Michael Armacost (b. 1937), Wikipedia.
  • Peter Arnett (b. 1934), Wikipedia.
  • Stephen H. Hess (b. 1933), Wikipedia.
  • Marvin Kalb (b. 1930), Wikipedia.
  • Ted Koppel (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
  • Daniel Schorr (1916–2010), Wikipedia.
  • Barry Zorthian (1920–2010), Wikipedia.
• Walter Cronkite, Peter Arnett, Neil Sheehan, Stanley Karnow, Joseph L. Galloway, Bert Quint, Kurt Volkert, Wallace Terry, Don North, Richard Pyle, "War Correspondents Reunion: Vietnam Part 1," [U.S. War Correspondents' Stories from Vietnam 1959-1964], No Greater Love, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 07 October 1995.
  • No Greater Love.
  • No Greater Love, Wikipedia.
  • Walter Cronkite (1916–2009), Wikipedia.
  • Peter Arnett (b. 1934), Wikipedia.
  • Neil Sheehan (b. 1936), Wikipedia.
  • Neil Sheehan. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. New York: Random House, 1988. New York: Vintage Books (Random House), 1989.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Joseph L. Galloway (b. 1941), Wikipedia.
  • Bert Quint (b. 1930), Prabook.
    Howard Rosenberg, "Reporter's Love for CBS Long Extinguished," [about Bert Quint], Los Angeles Times, February 24, 1993.
  • Kurt Volkert and T. Jeff Williams. A Cambodian Odyssey: And the Deaths of 25 Journalists. Writer's Showcase Press (iUniverse.com), 2001.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Wallace Terry (1938–2003), Wikipedia.
  • Wallace Terry. Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History. New York: Random House, 1984. New York: Presidio Press / Ballantine Books (Random House), 1985.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Don North, C-SPAN.org.
  • Richard Pyle and Horst Faas. Lost Over Laos: A True Story Of Tragedy, Mystery, And Friendship. Boston: Da Capo Press (Hachette Book Group), 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Tad Bartimus, Bernard Kalb, Jack Reynolds, Peter Arnett, Kevin Delany, George Esper, Bill Plante, Ron Nessen, "War Correspondents Reunion: Vietnam Part 2," [U.S. War Correspondents' Stories from Vietnam 1973-1975], No Greater Love, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 07 October 1995.
  • No Greater Love.
  • No Greater Love, Wikipedia.
  • Tad Bartimus, C-SPAN.org.
  • Bernard Kalb (b. 1922), Wikipedia.
  • Jack Reynolds, C-SPAN.org.
  • Peter Arnett (b. 1934), Wikipedia.
  • Kevin Delany, C-SPAN.org.
  • George Esper (1932–2012), Wikipedia.
  • Bill Plante (b. 1938), Wikipedia.
  • Ron Nessen (b. 1934), Wikipedia.
• Ben Bradlee, Joseph D. Duffey, Harold Evans, Jesse Jackson, Stanley Karnow, Edmund Morris, Allen Weinstein, "The Twentieth Century," Center for Democracy, National Archives Theater, Washington, D.C., C-SPAN.org, 19 October 1998.
  • Harold Evans (b. 1928), Wikipedia.
  • Harold Evans. The American Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • American Century, Wikipedia.
  • Ben Bradlee (1921–2014), Wikipedia.
  • Joseph Duffey (b. 1932), Wikipedia.
  • Jesse Jackson (b. 1941), Wikipedia.
  • Edmund Morris (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
  • Allen Weinstein (1937–2015), Wikipedia.

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Other Video:

• Vietnam: A Television History, WGBH, 1983; 1997.
  • Vietnam: A Television History, Wikipedia.
  • Search YouTube for: Vietnam A Television History.
  • Note that Vietnam: A Television History was originally broadcast in 1983 in 13 episodes. In 1997 a re-edited version of the series was broadcast as part of the PBS American Experience series in 11 episodes; episodes 2 ("The First Vietnam War") and 13 ("Legacies") of the original series were omitted from the 1997 version. I think one should preferentially view the 1983 version which was distributed on VHS tape.
  • Raw video of the interviews (often quite long and detailed), from which brief excerpts were used in the documentary, is available at WGBH Open Vault: The Vietnam Collection, WGBH Media Library & Archives.
    For example:
    • Henry Cabot Lodge, 01 January 1979;
    • Maxwell Taylor, 30 January 1979;
    • Edward Lansdale, 31 January 1979;
    • J. Lawton Collins, 29 April 1981;
    • Paul M. Kattenburg, 07 May 1981;
    • Roger Hilsman, 11 May 1981;
    • George W. Ball, 18 May 1981.
• The Vietnam War, A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, PBS, 2017.
  • The Vietnam War, PBS.
  • The Vietnam War, Wikipedia.
  • The Vietnam War, IMDb.
  • Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns. The Vietnam War: An Intimate History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House), 2017.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• I collected some other videos related to the Vietnam War in my post for Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (1972); this includes, for example, several panel discussions at a conference on "Vietnam and the Presidency" held at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in 2006.

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Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org.

Selected Lectures Related to the Vietnam War:

• Sean Sculley, "The Vietnam War Era," U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, 14 April 2011.
  • LTC Seanegan Sculley, Department of History, U.S. Military Academy.
  • Frances FitzGerald, "A Clash of Cultures," in Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Vietnam War Anthology, Third Edition, edited by Andrew J. Rotter. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    This essay is an extract from FitzGerald's book Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam.
  • Frances FitzGerald. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Pierre Asselin, "The Vietnam War, 1965-75," San Diego State University, 22 March 2018.
  • Pierre Asselin, Department of History, San Diego State University.
  • Pierre Asselin. Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Pierre Asselin. Vietnam's American War: A History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Vietnam War, November 1955 – April 1975.
  • Lê Duẩn (1907–1986), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, September 1960 – July 1986.
  • William Westmoreland (1914–2005), Commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), June 1964 – 1968.
  • Sino-Soviet split, 1956–1966.
• Donald Stoker, "North Vietnamese Strategy During the Vietnam War," U.S. Naval War College, Monterey, California, 18 November 2011.
  • Donald Stoker, Wikipedia.
• Douglas Kennedy, "Vietnam War's 'Operation Rolling Thunder'," U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 15 March 2018.
  • Dr. Douglas Kennedy, Department of History, U.S. Air Force Academy.
  • James Clay Thompson. Rolling Thunder: Understanding Policy and Program Failure. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • John Schlight. A War Too Long: The USAF in Southeast Asia, 1961–1975. Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1996.
    [Archive.org; Air Force Historical Support Division.]
  • John Schlight. The War in South Vietnam: The Years of the Offensive, 1965–1968. Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1999.
    [Air Force Historical Support Division.]
  • Operation Rolling Thunder, began 02 March 1965.
  • Operation Linebacker, May – October 1972.
  • Operation Linebacker II ("The Christmas Bombings"), December 1972.
• Andrew Wiest and John Young, "The Vietnam War" [in 1967], University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 24 March 2016.
  • Andrew A. Wiest, Department of History, University of Southern Mississippi.
  • Dale Center for the Study of War and Society, University of Southern Mississippi.
  • Gregory A. Daddis. No Sure Victory: Measuring U.S. Army Effectiveness and Progress in the Vietnam War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway. We Were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam. New York: Random House, 1992.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Battle of Ia Drang, November 1965.
  • 1967 in the Vietnam War.
  • Operation Junction City, February – May 1967.
  • Đồng Tâm Base Camp.
  • Mobile Riverine Force.
  • Vietnam War Timeline: 1967, VietnamGear.com.
• Richard Faulkner, "Tet Offensive to Vietnam War's End," U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 01 March 2018.
  • Richard S. Faulkner, C-SPAN.org.
  • Vietnam War, November 1955 – April 1975.
  • Tet Offensive, began 30 January 1968.
  • Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson: Foreign affairs, November 1963 – January 1969.
  • United States presidential election, 1968, Nixon versus Humphrey versus Wallace.
  • Presidency of Richard Nixon: Foreign policy, January 1969 – August 1974.

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• Lisa Brady, "Battling Nature in Korea and Vietnam," Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, 09 April 2015.
  • Lisa Brady, Department of History, Boise State University.
  • Environmental history.
  • Korean War, June 1950 – July 1953.
  • Vietnam War, November 1955 – April 1975.
  • White phosphorus munitions.
  • Allotropes of phosphorus: White phosphorus.
  • Operation Ranch Hand, 1962 – 1971.
  • Rainbow Herbicides.
  • Agent Orange (50% 2,4,5-T; 50% 2,4-D).
  • Arthur Galston (1920–2008).
  • Operation Pacer HO, 1977.
• David Farber, "Vietnam Anti-War Movement," Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 21 October 2010.
  • History, Temple University.
  • David Farber, Department of History, University of Kansas.
  • David Farber, Wikipedia.
  • David Farber, C-SPAN.org.
  • David Farber. The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s. New York: Hill and Wang, 1994.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    My post on The Age of Great Dreams is here.
  • David Farber, editor. The Sixties: From Memory to History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • David Farber. Chicago '68. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • Lists of protests against the Vietnam War.
  • Eugene McCarthy presidential campaign, 1968.
  • Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968).
  • United States presidential election, 1968, Nixon versus Humphrey versus Wallace.
• Meredith Lair, "Vietnam Veterans," George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 24 September 2012.
  • Meredith H. Lair, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University.
  • Meredith H. Lair. Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Tracy Kidder. My Detachment: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 2005.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Jerry Lembcke. The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Bob Greene. Homecoming: When the Soldiers Returned from Vietnam. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Vietnam veteran.
• Melissa Borja, "Post-Vietnam War Refugees," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 10 April 2018.
  • Melissa Borja, Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, University of Michigan.
  • Melissa Borja, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan.
  • Melissa Borja, American Culture, University of Michigan.
  • Melissa Borja. Follow the New Way: Hmong Refugee Resettlement and Practice of American Religious Pluralism. Not yet published.
  • Viet Thanh Nguyen. The Sympathizer. New York: Grove Press, 2015.
    [Publisher; Author's Website; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Viet Thanh Nguyen, "The Hidden Scars All Refugees Carry," The New York Times, 02 September 2016.
    (Copy at author's website.)
  • Indochina refugee crisis.
  • Refugee Act of 1980.
• Julian Zelizer, "1970s Conservative Movement and Foreign Policy," Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 21 February 2018.
  • Julian E. Zelizer, Department of History, Princeton University.
  • Julian E. Zelizer, Princeton University.
  • Julian E. Zelizer, C-SPAN.org.
  • Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer, editors. Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2008.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer. Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Presidency of Richard Nixon: Foreign policy, January 1969 – August 1974.
  • Presidency of Gerald Ford: Foreign affairs, August 1974 – January 1977.
  • United States presidential election, 1976, Carter versus Ford.
  • Presidency of Jimmy Carter: Foreign affairs, January 1977 – January 1981.
  • United States presidential election, 1980, Reagan versus Carter versus Anderson.
  • History of conservatism in the United States: 1970s.
  • Conservatism in the United States.

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• Brooks Simpson, "Presidents and War Powers," Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 26 October 2015.
  • Brooks Simpson, Arizona State University.
  • Brooks D. Simpson (b. 1957), Wikipedia.
  • Crossroads, Simpson's blog.
  • Brooks D. Simpson, C-SPAN.org.
  • Quasi-War, July 1798 – September 1800.
  • First Barbary War, May 1801 – June 1805.
  • Presidency of James K. Polk: Foreign affairs, March 1845 – March 1849.
  • Battle of Fort Sumter, April 1861.
  • Spanish–American War, 1898.
  • Philippine–American War, February 1899 – July 1902.
  • Banana Wars, 1898–1934.
  • American entry into World War I.
  • United States non-interventionism: Non-interventionism before entering World War II.
  • Lend-Lease, 1941.
  • Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939 – May 1945.
  • Military history of the United States during World War II.
  • Cold War, 1946–1991.
  • Gulf of Tonkin incident, August 1964.
  • Presidency of Richard Nixon: Foreign policy, January 1969 – August 1974.
  • Operation Menu, bombing campaign in eastern Cambodia, March 1969 – May 1970.
  • Cambodian Campaign, April – July 1970.
  • Operation Freedom Deal, Cambodia, May 1970 – August 1973.
  • War Powers Resolution of 1973.
  • 2003 invasion of Iraq.
• Charles Dobbs, "John F. Kennedy's Foreign Policy," Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 11 October 2013.
  • Department of History, Iowa State University.
  • Charles Dobbs, retired, LinkedIn.
  • Presidency of John F. Kennedy: Foreign affairs, January 1961 – November 1963.
  • Foreign policy of the John F. Kennedy administration.
  • National Security Action Memorandum 263, 11 October 1963.
  • National Security Action Memorandum 273, 26 November 1963.
• Joan Hoff, "Presidents, War, and Public Opinion," Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, 26 September 2011.
  (Curiously little or no discussion of the Vietnam War.)
  • Also known as Joan Hoff Wilson.
  • Carol Schmidt, "From Butte to PBS: Noted historian keeps hand in history as an MSU adjunct," Montana State University, 02 December 2003.
  • Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University.
  • Joan Hoff, Organization of American Historians.
  • Joan Hoff. A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush: Dreams of Perfectibility. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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• Kyle Longley, "President Johnson and the Vietnam War in 1968," Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 09 April 2018.
  • Kyle Longley, Arizona State University.
  • School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University.
  • Anne Wheeler, "Historian Kyle Longley named Director, LBJ Presidential Library," LBJ Presidential Library, 18 July 2018.
  • Staff, LBJ Presidential Library.
  • Kyle Longley. LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson: Foreign affairs, November 1963 – January 1969.
  • 1968 in the United States.
  • 1968 in the Vietnam War.
  • Lyndon B. Johnson, "Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union," 17 January 1968.
    Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/237325.
  • Battle of Khe Sanh, January – July 1968.
  • Tet Offensive, began 30 January 1968.
  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., 04 April 1968.
  • Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, 05 June 1968.
  • 1968 Democratic National Convention, 26–29 August 1968.
  • United States presidential election, 1968, Nixon versus Humphrey versus Wallace.
  • Anna Chennault (1925–2018).
• Margaret O'Mara, "1968 Presidential Election," University of Washington, Seattle, 15 February 2017.
  • Margaret O'Mara, Department of History, University of Washington.
  • Margaret O'Mara, margaretomara.com.
  • United States presidential election, 1964, Johnson versus Goldwater.
  • 1968 in the United States.
  • 1968 in the Vietnam War.
  • Tet Offensive, began 30 January 1968.
  • Battle of Huế, January – March 1968.
  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., 04 April 1968.
  • Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, 05 June 1968.
  • 1968 Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, 05–08 August 1968.
  • 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 26–29 August 1968.
  • United States presidential election, 1968, Nixon versus Humphrey versus Wallace.
• Leonard Steinhorn, "Impact of 1968," American University, Washington, D.C., 01 April 2013.
  • Leonard Steinhorn, School of Communication, American University.
  • Leonard Steinhorn, Wikipedia.
  • Leonard "Lenny" Steinhorn, C-SPAN.org.
  • Leonard Steinhorn. The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy. New York: Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press / Macmillan, 2006.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • 1968 in the United States.
  • 1968 in the Vietnam War.
  • Tet Offensive, began 30 January 1968.
  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., 04 April 1968.
  • Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, 05 June 1968.
  • 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 26–29 August 1968.
  • United States presidential election, 1968, Nixon versus Humphrey versus Wallace.

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Wikipedia Articles, etc.:

• Vietnam War, November 1955 – April 1975.
• Outline of the Vietnam War.
• 1954 in the Vietnam War, and articles for each succeeding year.
• Vietnam War Timeline, VietnamGear.com.

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• Historical and Political Context of U.S. Intervention in Vietnam
• United States Strategic Bombing Survey, report released on 30 September 1945.
  (Vietnam era U.S. policy makers knew about this study but most ignored its conclusions.)
• Origins of the Cold War.
• Cold War.
• History of United States foreign policy: Cold War: 1947–91.
• Harry S. Truman, "Special Message to the Congress on Greece and Turkey: The Truman Doctrine," March 12, 1947. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project.
• Truman Doctrine, March 1947.
• Chinese Civil War, 1927–1937 and 1946–1950.
• NSC 68, "United States Objectives and Programs for National Security," April 1950.
• NSC 68 [PDF], Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.
• Korean War, June 1950 – July 1953.
• First Indochina War, December 1946 – July 1954.
• McCarthyism.
  (During the 1950s and 1960s Democratic party politicians feared accusations of being "soft on communism".)
• Decolonization.
• Decolonisation of Asia.
• Wars of national liberation.

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• Vietnam and Events
• History of Vietnam.
• Culture of Vietnam.
• French Indochina, 1887 – 1954.
• First Indochina War, December 1946 – July 1954.
• State of Vietnam, 1949–1955.
• Bảo Đại (1913–1997), head of state (Emperor), State of Vietnam, 1949–1955.
• Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969).
• Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911–2013).
• Việt Minh.
• North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam), 1945 – 1975.
• Phạm Văn Đồng (1906–2000), Prime Minister of North Vietnam, 1955–1976; Prime Minister of Vietnam, 1976–1987.
• Lê Duẩn (1907–1986), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, September 1960 – July 1986.
• Battle of Dien Bien Phu, March – May 1954.
• 1954 Geneva Conference, April – July 1954.

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• South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam), 1955 – 1975.
• Ngo Dinh Diem (1901–1963), President of the Republic of Vietnam, October 1955 – November 1963.
• Ngô Đình Thục (1897–1984), Archbishop of Huế, brother of Ngo Dinh Diem.
• Ngô Đình Nhu (1910–1963), brother of Ngo Dinh Diem.
• Madame Nhu (1924–2011), wife of Ngô Đình Nhu.
• Ngô Đình Cẩn (1911–1964), brother of Ngo Dinh Diem.
• Viet Cong, National Liberation Front (NLF), founded December 1960.
• Buddhist crisis, South Vietnam, May – November 1963.
• Thích Quảng Đức: Self-immolation, 11 June 1963.
• Cable 243, 24 August 1963.
• 1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état, November 1963.
• John Prados, "JFK and the Diem Coup," National Security Archive, 05 November 2003.
• Reaction to the 1963 South Vietnamese coup.
• Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (1908–1976), Prime Minister of South Vietnam, November 1963 – January 1964.
• Dương Văn Minh ("Big Minh") (1916–2001), Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, South Vietnam, November 1963 – January 1964.
• Nguyễn Khánh (1927–2013), Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, South Vietnam, January 1964 – February 1965.
• South Vietnam government of Thieu / Ky / Co established June 1965.
  • Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (1923–2001).
  • Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (1930–2011).
  • Nguyễn Hữu Có (1925–2012).

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• Battle of Ap Bac, first major battle victory of NLF, 02 January 1963.
• Gulf of Tonkin incident, August 1964.
• Battle of Binh Gia, 28 December 1964 – 01 January 1965, NLF victory.
• Operation Rolling Thunder, began 02 March 1965.
• U.S. Marines arrive at Da Nang, 08 March 1965.
• Battle of Ia Drang, November 1965.
• Buddhist Uprising of 1966.
• Operation Cedar Falls, January 1967.
• Battle of Khe Sanh, January – July 1968.
• Tet Offensive, began 30 January 1968.
• Battle of Huế, January – March 1968.
• Battle of Hamburger Hill, May 1969.
• Cambodian Campaign, April – July 1970.
• Easter Offensive, March – October 1972.
• Paris Peace Accords, signed 27 January 1973.
• Battle of Phước Long, December 1974 – January 1975.
• 1975 Spring Offensive.
• Fall of Saigon, 30 April 1975.

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• United States in Vietnam
• Role of the United States in the Vietnam War.
• Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower: Foreign affairs, January 1953 – January 1961.
• J. Lawton Collins (1896–1987), Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, August 1949 – August 1953; U.S. Special Representative in Vietnam, November 1954 – May 1955.
• Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), MAAG Indochina, 1950; reorganized with creation of MAAG Vietnam, 01 November 1955.
• U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), created February 1962.
• Presidency of John F. Kennedy: Foreign affairs, January 1961 – November 1963.
• Foreign policy of the John F. Kennedy administration.
• Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson: Foreign affairs, November 1963 – January 1969.
• McGeorge Bundy (1919–1996), National Security Advisor, January 1961 – February 1966.
• Robert McNamara (1916–2009), Secretary of Defense, January 1961 – February 1968.
• Dean Rusk (1909–1994), Secretary of State, January 1961 – January 1969.

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• Frederick Nolting (1911–1989), U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, 1961–1963.
• Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902–1985), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, January 1947 – January 1953; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, January 1953 – September 1960; U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, August 1963 – June 1964 and August 1965 – April 1967.
• Maxwell D. Taylor (1901–1987), Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, October 1962 – July 1964; U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, July 1964 – July 1965.
• Ellsworth Bunker (1894–1984), U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, April 1967 – May 1973.
• Graham Martin (1912–1990), U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, September 1973 – May 1975.

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• Paul D. Harkins (1904–1984), Commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), 1962 – June 1964.
• William Westmoreland (1914–2005), Commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), June 1964 – June 1968.
• Creighton Abrams (1914–1974), Commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), June 1968 – June 1972.
• Edward Lansdale (1908–1987), U.S. Air Force; CIA officer.
• Lucien Conein (1919–1998), U.S. Army; CIA officer.
• John Paul Vann (1924–1972), U.S. Army.
• William E. DePuy (1919–1992), U.S. Army.
• Robert Komer (1922–2000), first head of Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) in South Vietnam.

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• George Ball (1909–1994), Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, February – December 1961; Under Secretary of State, December 1961 – September 1966.
• Roger Hilsman (1919–2014), Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (Department of State), February 1961 – April 1963; Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, May 1963 – March 1964.
• W. Averell Harriman (1891–1986), Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, December 1961 – April 1963; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, April 1963 – March 1965.
• William Bundy (1917–2000), Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, March 1964 – May 1969.
• Nicholas Katzenbach (1922–2012), Attorney General, February 1965 – October 1966; Under Secretary of State, October 1966 – January 1969.
• Paul M. Kattenburg (1922–2004), State Department. [Obituary, The Washington Post.]
• John A. McCone (1902–1991), Under Secretary of the Air Force, June 1950 – October 1951; Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, July 1958 – January 1961; Director of Central Intelligence, November 1961 – April 1965.
• Clark Clifford (1906–1998), White House Counsel, February 1946 – January 1950; Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, April 1963 – February 1968; Secretary of Defense, March 1968 – January 1969.
• John McNaughton (1921–1967), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1964–1967.
• Paul Warnke (1920–2001), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1967 – 1969.
• Paul Nitze (1907–2004), Director of Policy Planning at Department of State, 1950–1953; Secretary of the Navy, November 1963 – June 1967; Deputy Secretary of Defense, July 1967 – January 1969.
• Walt Rostow (1916–2003), Deputy National Security Advisor, January 1961 – December 1961; Director of Policy Planning at Department of State, December 1961 – March 1966; National Security Advisor, April 1966 – January 1969.
• Michael Forrestal (1927–1989), staff member of the National Security Council, 1962–1965.

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• J. William Fulbright (1905–1995), U.S. Senator from Arkansas, January 1945 – December 1974; Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1959–1974.
• Mike Mansfield (1903–2001), U.S. Senator from Montana, January 1953 – January 1977; Senate Majority Leader, January 1961 – January 1977.

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• Presidency of Richard Nixon: Foreign policy, January 1969 – August 1974.
• Henry Kissinger (b. 1973), National Security Advisor, January 1969 – November 1975; Secretary of State, September 1973 – January 1977.
• Melvin Laird (1922–2016), Secretary of Defense, January 1969 – January 1973.
• Vietnamization.
• Presidency of Gerald Ford: Foreign affairs, August 1974 – January 1977.

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