Blair, Roman Britain and Early England: 55 B.C. - A.D. 871 (1966)

Peter Hunter Blair.
Roman Britain and Early England: 55 B.C. - A.D. 871.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1966.

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

Book Series: The Norton Library History of England

Originally published: Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1963.

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Author Information:

• Peter Hunter Blair (1912–1982), Wikipedia.
• Peter Hunter Blair. An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England, Third Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956; 1977; 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Hunter Blair. The World of Bede. London: Secker & Warburg, 1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Wikipedia Articles, In Our Time, Books, etc.:

• Prehistoric Britain, to A.D. 43.
• British Iron Age, 800 B.C. – A.D. 100.
• Roman Britain, First Century to early Fifth Century.
• Sub-Roman Britain (Post-Roman Britain), late Fourth Century to early Sixth Century.
• History of Anglo-Saxon England, Fifth Century to Eleventh Century.
• England in the Middle Ages, Fifth Century to Fifteenth Century.

Roman Britain Topics:

• Celts.
• Iron Age tribes in Britain.
• Melvyn Bragg, Barry Cunliffe, Alistair Moffat, Miranda Aldhouse Green, "The Celts," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 21 Feb 2002.
• Picts.
• Caledonians.
• Scotland during the Roman Empire.
• Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.
• Melvyn Bragg, Katherine Forsyth, Alex Woolf, Gordon Noble, "The Picts," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 09 Nov 2017. (Includes a reading list.)
• Roman conquest of Britain.
• Melvyn Bragg, Greg Woolf, Mary Beard, Catharine Edwards, "Roman Britain," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 1 May 2003.
• Romano-British culture.
• Roman roads in Britannia.
• Roman sites in Great Britain.
Roman locations more frequently mentioned by Blair:
• Camulodunum, Colonia Claudia Victricensis, first capital of the province Britannia, later known as Colchester.
• Londinium, later known as London.
• Lindum Colonia, later known as Lincoln.
• Eboracum, later known as York.
• Viroconium Cornoviorum, later the site of Wroxeter.
• Calleva Atrebatum, later the site of Silchester.
• Verulamium, later the site of St Albans.
• Isca Augusta, later the site of Caerleon.
• Deva Victrix, later the site of Chester.
• Corinium Dobunnorum, later the site of Cirencester.
• Venta Silurum, later the site of Caerwent.
• Boudica's uprising, 60–61.
• Melvyn Bragg, Juliette Wood, Richard Hingley, Miranda Aldhouse-Green, "Boudica," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 11 Mar 2010.
• Scotland during the Roman Empire.
• Hadrian's Wall, begun in A.D. 122.
• Melvyn Bragg, Greg Woolf, David Breeze, Lindsay Allason-Jones, "Hadrian's Wall," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 12 Jul 2012.
• Antonine Wall, begun in A.D. 142.
• Crisis of the Third Century.
• Gallic Empire, 260–274.
• Reforms of Diocletian.
• Great Conspiracy, 367–368, attacks on Roman Britain by Picts, Scotti, Attacotti, Saxons and Franks.
• Migration Period, Fourth Century to Sixth Century.
• Fall of the Western Roman Empire.
• Melvyn Bragg, Charlotte Roueché, David Womersley, Richard Alston, "The Roman Empire's Collapse in the 5th century," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 Mar 2004.
• End of Roman rule in Britain, late Fourth Century to mid-Fifth Century.
• Groans of the Britons, between 446 and 454.

Transition Period:

• Sub-Roman Britain (Post-Roman Britain), late Fourth Century to early Sixth Century.
• Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, mid-Fifth to early Seventh Centuries.
• Germanus of Auxerre (c.378–c.448), visited Britain around 429.
• Ambrosius Aurelianus (5th Century).
• Vortigern (5th Century).
• Extreme weather events of 535–536.
• Plague of Justinian, 541–542.
• Late Antique Little Ice Age, Sixth and Seventh Centuries.

Anglo-Saxon England Topics:

• History of Anglo-Saxon England, Fifth Century to Eleventh Century.
• Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, mid-Fifth to early Seventh Centuries.
• Heptarchy, seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England:
  • Kingdom of East Anglia.
  • Mercia.
  • Kingdom of Northumbria.
  • Wessex.
  • Kingdom of Essex.
  • Kingdom of Kent.
  • Kingdom of Sussex.
• Anglo-Saxon London.
• Anglo-Saxon paganism.
• Celtic Christianity.
• Lindisfarne.
• Gildas (c.500–c.570). De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain), Sixth Century.
• Columba (521–597).
• Pope Gregory I (c.540–604), Saint Gregory the Great, Pope 590–604.
• Gregorian mission, 596, a Christian mission sent by Pope Gregory the Great to convert Britain's Anglo-Saxons.
• Augustine of Canterbury (d. 604), first Archbishop of Canterbury 597–604.
• Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England, Seventh Century.
• Aidan of Lindisfarne (d. 651).
• Edwin of Northumbria (c.586–632/633), King of Deira and Bernicia 616–632/633; baptised in 627.
• Hilda of Whitby (c.614–680), abbess.
• Melvyn Bragg, John Blair, Rosemary Cramp, Sarah Foot, "St Hilda," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 5 Apr 2007.
• Wilfrid (c.633–709/710).
• Cuthbert (c.634–687).
• Lindisfarne Gospels, produced around the years 715–720.
• Melvyn Bragg, Michelle Brown, Richard Gameson, Clare Lees, "The Lindisfarne Gospels," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 20 Feb 2003.
• Bede (672/3–735). Ecclesiastical History of the English People, c.731.
  • Bede. Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Edited by Judith McClure and Roger Collins. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• The Age of Bede. Edited by David Hugh Farmer and J.F. Webb. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1998.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Melvyn Bragg, Richard Gameson, Sarah Foot, Michelle Brown, "The Venerable Bede," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 25 Nov 2004.
• Alfred the Great (847/849–899), reign began 871.

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I thought Blair's Roman Britain and Early England was a good introduction to the period. However, the book is over 50 years old and much archeological work has been done and several notable treasure hoards found since then, so it is probably a little out-of-date on the archeological front. Also, historical interpretations may have changed or been refined, for example on topics related to Romanization (the lack thereof) and Christianity.

For a beginner like me, a great advance of the past 50 years is the publication recently of books with color illustrations (Blair's text does have excellent black-and-white maps and plates):

• Barry Cunliffe. Britain Begins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Salway. The Oxford Illustrated History of Roman Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Guy de la Bédoyère. Roman Britain: A New History, Second Edition. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• James Campbell, Eric John, Patrick Wormald. The Anglo-Saxons. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1982. London: Penguin Books, 1991.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  (Heavily illustrated, only a few in color.)
• Nicholas J. Higham and Martin J. Ryan. The Anglo-Saxon World. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

For recent texts on this period see the books in The Penguin History of Britain series (An Imperial Possession; Britain After Rome) and the Short Oxford History of the British Isles series.

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Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925 (1963)

John Higham.
Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925.
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1955.

[Second Edition,] Corrected and with a new Preface.
New York: Atheneum, 1963. {I read a 1967 reprint of this 1963 edition.}

[Third Edition,] Corrected.
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1988.

[Fourth Edition,] With a new Epilogue.
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

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

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Author Information:

• John Higham (1920–2003), Wikipedia.
• John Higham, "Instead Of a Sequel, or How I Lost My Subject," Reviews in American History, Volume 28, Number 2, Pages 327-339, June 2000.
  [This essay appears as the Epilogue to the 2002 edition of Strangers in the Land.]

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Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United States (1865–1918).
• History of the United States (1918–1945).
• Nativism: United States.
• History of immigration to the United States.

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Book Reviews:

• Google search: Higham 'Strangers in the Land'.

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I read Higham's Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925 after reading

• Billington, The Protestant Crusade 1800–1860: A Study of the Origins of American Nativism (1938).

Higham commented on Billington's book in the following passage:

"By far the oldest and - in early America - the most powerful of the anti-foreign traditions came out of the shock of the Reformation. Protestant hatred of Rome played so large a part in the pre-Civil War nativist thinking that historians have sometimes regarded nativism and anti-Catholicism as more or less synonymous. This identification, by oversimplifying two complex ideas, does little justice to either. Many social and religions factors, some of them nativistic only in a very indirect sense, have contributed powerfully to anti-Catholic feeling." (page 5, Higham, Strangers in the Land)


Having read some general histories on the period 1860–1925, I think Higham's work provides some notable and distinctive insights. Some histories I've read on this period, as noted in this blog:

• White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896 (2017).
• Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865–1900 (2010).
• Beatty, Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865–1900 (2007).
• McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870–1920 (2003).
• Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877–1920 (1967).
• Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920 (2009).
• Diner, A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era (1998).
• Goodwyn, The Populist Moment (1978).
• Brands, The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (2002).
• Ginger, Altgeld's America (1958).
• Traxel, Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898–1920 (2006).
• Cooper, Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900–1920 (1990).
• Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (2004).
• Hawley, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order, 2e (1997).
• Leuchtenburg, The Perils of Prosperity, 1914–1932, 2e (1993).
• Miller, New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America (2003).
• Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (1931).
• Allen, The Big Change: America Transforms Itself: 1900–1950 (1952).

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Billington, The Protestant Crusade 1800-1860: A Study of the Origins of American Nativism (1938)

Ray Allen Billington.
The Protestant Crusade 1800-1860: A Study of the Origins of American Nativism.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938.
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1952
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1964. {I read this 1964 edition.}

Book Information: Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Ray Allen Billington (1903-1981), Wikipedia.
• Ray Allen Billington. Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. Second Edition, 1960. Third Edition, 1967. Fourth Edition, 1974.
  [Google Books, 1949, Full View.]
• Ray Allen Billington. The Far Western Frontier, 1830-1860. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Ray Allen Billington. Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Teacher, Scholar. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Ray Allen Billington. Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Imagery of the American Frontier. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1981.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Ray Allen Billington. Limericks: Historical and Hysterical. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1981.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Ray Allen Billington and Martin Ridge. Western Expansion: A History of the American Frontier, Sixth Edition, An Abridgment. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Wikipedia Articles, etc:

• History of Protestantism in the United States: 19th century: Anti-Catholic sentiment and violence.
• Anti-Catholicism: United States.
• Anti-Catholicism in the United States.
• Nativism: United States.
• Ursuline Convent riots, Charlestown, Massachusetts, August 1834.
• Philadelphia nativist riots, May and July, 1844.
• American Republican Party (1843).
• Order of the Star Spangled Banner, 1849-1850s.
• Know Nothing (Native American Party, renamed the American Party), mid-1850s.
• William Craig Brownlee (1784–1860).
  • The Religious Controversy, between the Rev. Dr. W. C. Brownlee, on the part of the Protestants, and the Rev. Dr. J. Power, Thos. C. Levins, and Felix Varela, on the part of the Roman Catholics. Philadelphia: Boyle & Benedict, 1833.
    [Archive.org.]
  • W. C. Brownlee. Letters in the Roman Catholic Controversy. New York: Published by the Author, 1834.
    [Archive.org.]
  • W. C. Brownlee. Popery: An Enemy to Civil and Religious Liberty, and Dangerous to Our Republic. New York: Bowne & Wisner - New York Protestant Press, 1836.
    [Google Books.]
• Lyman Beecher (1775–1863).
  • Lyman Beecher. A Plea for the West. Cincinnati: Truman & Smith, 1835.
    [Archive.org.]
  • Lyman Beecher. Beecher's Works. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852 and 1853.
    [Archive.org, vol 1 of 3; Archive.org, vol 2 of 3; Archive.org, vol 3 of 3.]
  • Autobiography, Correspondence, etc. of Lyman Beecher, D.D. Charles Beecher, editor. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865.
    [Archive.org, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2.]
• Maria Monk (1816-1849). Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk. 1836.
  [Archive.org.]
• Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872).
  • Samuel F. B. Morse. Foreign Conspiracy against the Liberties of the United States. New York: Leavitt, Lord, & Co., 1835.
    [Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, California.]
  • Samuel F. B. Morse, editor. The Proscribed German Student: being a sketch of some interesting incidents in the life and melancholy death of the late Lewis Clausing. New York: Van Nostrand & Dwight, 1836.
    [Archive.org, Harvard; Archive.org, New York Public Library.]
  • Samuel F. B. Morse, editor. Confessions of a French Catholic Priest: To which are Added Warnings to the People of the United. New York: John S. Taylor, 1837.
    [Archive.org.]

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Billington's book is more about Protestants' anti-Roman Catholic agitation during the period rather than nativism. John Higham wrote on nativism and in the following passage commented on Billington's book:

"By far the oldest and - in early America - the most powerful of the anti-foreign traditions came out of the shock of the Reformation. Protestant hatred of Rome played so large a part in the pre-Civil War nativist thinking that historians have sometimes regarded nativism and anti-Catholicism as more or less synonymous. This identification, by oversimplifying two complex ideas, does little justice to either. Many social and religions factors, some of them nativistic only in a very indirect sense, have contributed powerfully to anti-Catholic feeling." (page 5, Higham, Strangers in the Land)

• John Higham. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1955; 2002. New York: Atheneum, 1963.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

The period 1800-1860 was one of exuberant religious ferment in the United States. For an introduction to this period, see:

• Daniel Walker Howe. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Wikipedia.]

My post on What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 is here.

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Petigny, The Permissive Society: America, 1941–1965 (2009)

Alan Petigny.
The Permissive Society: America, 1941–1965.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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

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Author Information:

• Dr. Alan Cecil Petigny, 1965-2013, History@UF ~ The Official Blog of the UF History Department, Wordpress.
• Alan Cecil Petigny Obituary, Dignity Memorial, Gonzalez Funeral Home, Tampa, Florida.
• Alan Petigny, "Norman Mailer, 'The White Negro,' and New Conceptions of Self in Post-War America," The Mailer Review, Vol. 1 No. 1, Fall 2007.
  
  Petigny writes:
  "Upon closer inspection, it would seem our distorted image of the 1950s has been caused by a failure to distinguish between social conventions and private behavior — or, to state the matter a little differently, by a failure to differentiate between what people professed publicly to believe, and what they actually practiced privately.
  If one focuses not on social conventions but, instead, on private behavior, what one sees during the early cold war years is a picture of dramatic change — a time when a religiously oriented vision was fast losing its hold over the American Mind and the American Soul. How else are we to explain the emergence of the Sexual Revolution during the forties and fifties — a development attested to by soaring rates of single-motherhood and premarital pregnancies occurring during the supposedly staid Eisenhower years?"
  
  This article summarizes several topics discussed in The Permissive Society: America, 1941–1965.

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Video: Alan Petigny

• Alan Petigny, "Postwar Pluralism, Modern Psychology, and the Rise of Civil Rights," James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, 28 February 2011.
  • James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University.
• Alan Petigny, "Black Militancy and White Violence: The Collapse of Authority During the Late '60s and Early '70s," Annual Black History Month Event, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, 28 February 2013.
  • James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University.
• Carson Holloway, Wilfred M. McClay, Charles Murray, Alan Petigny, James Piereson, "Impact of the 1960s Cultural Revolution," James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 21 May 2013.
  • Alan Petigny's talk begins at time 42:00.
  • James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University.
  • Association for the Study of Free Institutions.
  • Carson Holloway, Political Science, University of Nebraska, Omaha.
  • Wilfred M. McClay, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
  • Wilfred M. McClay, Wikipedia.
  • Charles Murray, American Enterprise Institute.
  • Charles Murray (b. 1943), Wikipedia.
  • James Piereson, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
  • James Piereson, Wikipedia.

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Book Reviews:

• Jesse Walker, "Beyond Pleasantville: Permissiveness wasn’t born in the ’60s," Reason, January 2010.
• Allan C. Carlson, "The Myth of the Fifties," Modern Age, Volume 53, Number 1-2, Winter-Spring 2011.
• W. Andrew Achenbaum, Book Review," Journal of Social History, Volume 44, Number 3, Pages 958-960, Spring 2011.
• Gary Donaldson, "Book Review," American Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 2, Pages 479–480, April 2011.
• Joanne Meyerowitz, "The Liberal 1950s? Reinterpreting Postwar American Sexual Culture," in Karen Hagemann and Sonya Michel, editors, Gender and the Long Postwar: Reconsiderations of the United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989, Johns Hopkins University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2014, Pages 297-319.
  (This is not a book review but an essay that mentions Petigny's work.)

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Wikipedia Articles:

• 1940s.
• 1950s.
• History of the United States (1918–1945).
• History of the United States (1945–1964).
• Post–World War II economic expansion.
• Presidency of Harry S. Truman, April 1945 – January 1953.
• Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 1953 – January 1961.
• United States in the 1950s.

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Jezer, The Dark Ages: Life in the United States 1945-1960 (1981)

Marty Jezer.
The Dark Ages: Life in the United States 1945-1960.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, 1981.

Book Information: Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Martin Jezer (1940–2005), Wikipedia.
• Judy Kuster, Marty Jezer Memorial Webpage, 13 June 2005.
• Marty Jezer. Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1992.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Marty Jezer. Stuttering: A Life Bound Up In Words. New York: Basic Books, 1997.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video:

Professor Patterson mentioned Jezer's book during the Q&A session of this talk:

James T. Patterson, "U.S. in the 1940s, 50s and 60s," Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, C-SPAN.org, 24 May 1997.

• James T. Patterson (b. 1935), Wikipedia.

Other books mentioned in Patterson's talk:

• James T. Patterson. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Thomas Hine. Populuxe. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. New York: The Overlook Press, 2007.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• David M. Potter. People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• John Kenneth Galbraith. The Affluent Society. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Gunnar Myrdal and others. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944. London: Routledge, 2017.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com, volume 1.]
• Nicholas Lemann. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Aftermath of World War II.
• Origins of the Cold War.
• Cold War.
• Post–World War II economic expansion.
• History of the United States (1945–1964).
• Presidency of Harry S. Truman, April 1945 – January 1953.
• Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 1953 – January 1961.
• United States in the 1950s.

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Jezer's interpretation of U.S. history comes from a radical leftist point-of-view. (More explicitly, by "leftist" I mean the communist-socialist segment of the political spectrum. Part One of the book describes the suppression of communists and communism during the postwar era. Communists lost power in and funding from labor unions. Communists and socialists rebranded themselves as "progressives" but lost power in the Democratic Party to "corporate liberals." Jezer has a doctrinaire aversion to business corporations and examines social factors that undermined working class solidarity. The era was indeed a Dark Age ... for communists.) Jezer explains in his Introduction that the book provides an answer the question: what was it about the society of 1945-1960 that motivated the leftist activism of the 1960s and 1970s? The book tells more about how leftists of the 1960s and 1970s viewed their own past rather than describing the U.S. as experienced by most people during the postwar era, though it does that too.

Readers more interested in U.S. history during 1945-1960 might consider these other books, as noted in this blog:

• Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (1996).
• Diggins, The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-1960 (1988).
• McCullough, Truman (1992).
• Halberstam, The Fifties (1993).
• Hitchcock, The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s (2018).
• Petigny, The Permissive Society: America, 1941–1965 (2009).

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Racine, Britannicus, Phaedra, Athaliah (2009)

Jean Racine.
Britannicus, Phaedra, Athaliah.
Edited and Translated by C. H. Sisson.
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2009.
(First published in 1987.)

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

Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• 17th-century French literature.
• Jean Racine (1639–1699).
• Britannicus, 1669.
• Phèdre, 1677.
• Athalie, 1691.
• C. H. Sisson (1914–2003).

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Hitchcock, The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s (2018)

William I. Hitchcock.
The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018.

Book Information: Book Webpage at the Miller Center; Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• William Hitchcock, Department of History, University of Virginia.
• William I. Hitchcock, Wikipedia.
• William I. Hitchcock, C-SPAN.
• William I. Hitchcock. France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William I. Hitchcock. The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945 to the Present. New York: Doubleday (Penguin Random House), 2003. New York: Anchor Books, 2004.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William I. Hitchcock. The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video and Audio: William I. Hitchcock

• William I. Hitchcock, "U.S. Containment Strategy After World War II," University of Virginia, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 06 September 2010.
  • Aftermath of World War II, Wikipedia.
  • George F. Kennan, "The Long Telegram," 1946, Wikisource.
  • George F. Kennan, "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," 1947, Wikisource.
  • X Article, Wikipedia.
  • George F. Kennan (1904–2005), Wikipedia.
  • 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, Wikipedia.
  • Marshall Plan (European Recovery Program, ERP), began April 1948, Wikipedia.
  • Berlin Blockade, June 1948 – May 1949, Wikipedia.
  • North Atlantic Treaty, April 1949, Wikipedia.
• Will Hitchcock, "The Ike Age," John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 02 May 2013.
  • YouTube video.
• Jeffrey Frank, Will Hitchcock, Douglas Blackmon, "The New Eisenhower," American Forum, Miller Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, recorded 05 April 2016.
  • YouTube video.
  • Event Information, Miller Center, University of Virginia.
  • Jeffrey Frank, Wikipedia.
  • Jeffrey Frank, The New Yorker.
  • Jeffrey Frank. Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Hitchcock and Bruce Carlson, "Searching for Eisenhower," My History Can Beat Up Your Politics (podcast), 18 March 2018.
  • YouTube audio.
  • Bruce Carlson, My History Can Beat Up Your Politics, Wordpress.
  • Bruce Carlson, Quora.
• William Hitchcock, "The Age of Eisenhower," The Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., BookTV, C-SPAN, 26 March 2018.
  • Event Information, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
• William Hitchcock, "The Age of Eisenhower: Strategic Patience and the Cold War in the 1950s," Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 02 May 2018.
  • Event Information, Mershon Center for International Security Studies.
• William Hitchcock and Brian Lamb, "Q&A with William Hitchcock," C-SPAN, 03 May 2018.
• William Hitchcock and Dan Glickman, "The Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series," The Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C., 14 May 2018.
  • YouTube video.
  • Dan Glickman, Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program.
  • Dan Glickman (b. 1944), Wikipedia.
• Will Hitchcock and Brian Balogh, "BookStory Author Livestream," BackStory Radio, 30 August 2018.
  • BookStory, BackStory Radio.
  • BackStory Radio.
  • Brian Balogh, Department of History, University of Virginia.
  • Brian Balogh, Wikipedia.
• Will Hitchcock, "The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World of the 1950s," Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 20 September 2018.
  • Warning: poor audio.
  • YouTube video.
  • Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University.
• William I. Hitchcock, "The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s," Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia, 27 September 2018.
  • Video & Audio, Virginia Museum of History & Culture.
  • Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society.
• William Hitchcock and Ann Compton, "White House History with Ann Compton: The Age of Eisenhower Lecture with William Hitchcock," White House Historical Association, Washington, D.C., 21 February 2019.
  • Hitchcock's talk begins at time 9:10.
  • Event Information, White House Historical Association.
  • Ann Compton (b. 1947), Wikipedia.

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Book Reviews:

• Roundtable Review, H-Diplo, Hnet.org, Volume XX, No. 24, 11 February 2019.
  This includes an introduction by Melvyn P. Leffler, reviews by Kathryn Cramer Brownell, Darren Dochuk, Geoffrey Kabaservice, Kathryn C. Statler, and a reply by William I. Hitchcock.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 1953 – January 1961.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 – 1969).
• 1952 United States presidential election, Eisenhower versus Stevenson.
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• Richard Nixon, Vice President of the U.S., January 1953 – January 1961.
• John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State, January 1953 – April 1959.
• Herbert Brownell Jr., U.S. Attorney General, January 1953 – October 1957.
• George M. Humphrey, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, January 1953 – July 1957.
• Charles Erwin Wilson ("Engine Charlie"), U.S. Secretary of Defense, January 1953 – October 1957.
• Allen Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence, February 1953 – November 1961.
• Robert Cutler, National Security Advisor, January 1953 – April 1955 and January 1957 – June 1958.
• Gordon Gray, National Security Advisor, June 1958 – January 1961.
• Sherman Adams, White House Chief of Staff, January 1953 – October 1958.
• Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, October 1953 – June 1969.
• Milton S. Eisenhower, brother of Dwight Eisenhower.
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• United States in the 1950s.
• Post–World War II economic expansion.
• McCarthyism.
• Civil rights movement.
• Brown v Board of Education, 1954.
• Civil Rights Act of 1957.
• Little Rock Nine, desegregation of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas.
• Interstate Highway System.
  Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956.
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• Cold War (1947–1953).
• Cold War (1953–1962).
• Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, September 1953 – October 1964.
• Korean War, June 1950 – July 1953.
• First Indochina War, 1946 – 1954.
• Second Indochina War, 1955 – 1975.
• 1953 Iranian coup d'état.
• 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
• First Taiwan Strait Crisis, September 1954 – May 1955.
  Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, August – September 1958.
• Space Race.
• Hungarian Revolution of 1956, October – November 1956.
• Suez Crisis, October – November 1956.
• Eisenhower Doctrine (regarding the Middle East), January 1957.
• Sputnik crisis.
• History of Indonesia: Sukarno's presidency, 1945 – 1967.
• Cuban Revolution, 1953 – 1959.
• Bay of Pigs Invasion, April 1961.
• 1960 U-2 incident, May 1960.
• History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Independence and the Congo Crisis (1960–65).
• Congo Crisis, 1960 – 1965.
• History of Laos since 1945: North Vietnamese invasion (1958–1959).
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• 1960 United States presidential election, Kennedy versus Nixon.
• Eisenhower's farewell address, 17 January 1961.

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Gildea, France since 1945 (2002)

Robert Gildea.
France since 1945, Updated Edition.
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2002.
(First published in 1996.)

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

Warning on book production:
Since 2009 this book is being produced from digitized images of the earlier "real" printed book. Unfortunately, the illustrations were not captured at a very high resolution and the resulting images are, I think, inadequate. The book's map of France and images of the distribution of parties in the legislature are very blurry.

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Author Information:

• Professor Robert Gildea, Faculty of History, University of Oxford.
• Professor Robert Gildea, Worcester College, University of Oxford.
• Robert Gildea (b. 1952), Wikipedia.
• Robert Gildea. France 1870-1914, Second Edition. London: Routledge, 1996.
  (First published as The Third Republic from 1870 to 1914 in 1988.)
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert Gildea. The Past in French History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert Gildea. Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation. London: Macmillan, 2003. New York: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company, 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert Gildea. Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914. London: Penguin Books, 2008. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert Gildea, James Mark, Anette Warring, editors. Europe's 1968: Voices of Revolt. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert Gildea. Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance. London: Faber & Faber, 2015. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert Gildea. Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video and Audio: Robert Gildea

• Melvyn Bragg, Robert Gildea, Susan-Mary Grant, Jeremy Jennings, "Tocqueville: Democracy in America," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4.
  [YouTube; BBC.]
  • Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), Wikipedia.
  • Susan-Mary Grant (b. 1962), Wikipedia.
  • Professor Susan-Mary Grant, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University.
  • Jeremy Jennings, Wikipedia.
  • Professor Jeremy Jennings, Department of Political Economy, King’s College London.
• Melvyn Bragg, Robert Gildea, Ruth Harris, Robert Tombs, "The Dreyfus Affair," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4.
  [YouTube; BBC.]
  • Dreyfus affair 1894–1906, Wikipedia.
  • Ruth Harris. Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair That Divided France. London: Allen Lane, 2010.
    USA edition: Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century. New York: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan, 2010.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Ruth Harris (b. 1958), Wikipedia.
  • Professor Ruth Harris, Faculty of History, University of Oxford.
  • Robert Tombs (b. 1949), Wikipedia.
  • Professor Robert Tombs, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.
• Robert Gildea, "Remembering and Repetition in France: Defeat, Colonialism and Resistance since 1940," 2013 Wiles Lectures, Queen's University Belfast, 15–18 May 2013.
  • Lecture 1: Resistance, Liberation and Empire, 1940-1945, 15 May 2013.
  • Lecture 2: Empire replayed, Resistance changes sides, 1945-1962, 16 May 2013.
  • Lecture 3: Resistance, Third Worldism and the echoes of Empire, 17 May 2013.
  • Lecture 4: Memory Wars: the Holocaust, Resistance and Colonialism, 18 May 2013.
  • Wiles Lecture Series, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen's University Belfast.
  • Gildea's 2013 Wiles Lectures were published in 2019:
    Robert Gildea. Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Nick Fraser, Robert Gildea, and others, "The French Culture War," Seriously..., BBC Radio 4, 2016.
• See also the tab "In the Media" at Professor Robert Gildea.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• France.
• History of France.
• France in the twentieth century.
• French colonial empire.
• Economic history of France.
• Economy of France.
• Politics of France.

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Fenby, France: A Modern History from the Revolution to the War with Terror (2016)

Jonathan Fenby.
France: A Modern History from the Revolution to the War with Terror.
New York: St. Martin's Press (Macmillan Publishers), 2016.

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

Originally published as:
The History of Modern France: From the Revolution to the War on Terror.
London: Simon & Schuster UK, Ltd., 2015.
[Publisher UK; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk.]

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Author Information:

• Jonathan Fenby (b. 1942), Wikipedia.
• Jonathan Fenby, TS Lombard.
• Jonathan Fenby. On the Brink: The Trouble with France. Little, Brown, 1998.
  Second Edition: France on the Brink: A Great Civilization in the New Century. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2014.
  [Publisher 2014; Google Books 1998; Google Books 2014; Amazon.com 2014.]
• Jonathan Fenby. The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved. London: Simon & Schuster UK, Ltd., 2010. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2012.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Fenby has also published several books about China and other topics.

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Video: Jonathan Fenby

• Jonathan Fenby, "December Literary Lunch," The Oldie, London, December 2015.
  • Jonathan Fenby, Recordings, Literary Lunches, The Oldie.
    Audio only available at this webpage, but has better sound quality than in the YouTube video above.
  • The Oldie.
  • The Oldie, Wikipedia.
• Jonathan Fenby and Ken Wattret, "Interview on France," TS Lombard, London, April 2017.
  • TS Lombard.
  • Ken Wattret, IHS Markit.
  • 2017 French presidential election, Wikipedia.

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Video: France

• John Merriman, France Since 1871, Open Yale Courses, Fall 2007.
  • France Since 1871, Open Yale Courses.
  • France Since 1871 with John Merriman, Open Yale Courses, YouTube Playlist.
  • John Merriman, Department of History, Yale University.
  • John M. Merriman (b. 1946), Wikipedia.
• Graham Robb, "The Discovery of France," Talks at Google, New York, 28 November 2007.
  • Graham Robb (b. 1958), Wikipedia.
  • Graham Robb. The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Andrew Hussey, "The French Intifada: the long war between France and its Arabs," School of Advanced Study, University of London, 02 February 2017.
  • Andrew Hussey (b. 1963), Wikipedia.
  • Professor Andrew Hussey OBE, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
  • Andrew Hussey. The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs. London: Granta Books, 2014. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Macmillan Publishing), 2014.
    [Publisher USA; Google Books USA edition; Amazon.com.]

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Wikipedia Articles:

• France.
• History of France.
• France in the long nineteenth century.
• France in the twentieth century.
• French colonial empire.
• Economic history of France.
• Economy of France.
• Culture of France.
• French literature.
• Politics of France.
• 2017 French presidential election.

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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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