About 15 years ago, I decided to take a job at an international women’s university in Bangladesh and taught there for an academic year. It was a year of many firsts for me. It was my first job as an instructor of record, where I would be designing my own courses, rather than working as […]
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As I mentioned earlier, I worked on a series of teaching videos about the Vietnam War for the Choices Program a few years ago. Sadly, Brown University shut down the Choices Program and scrubbed the website of the program’s contents. Therefore, I wanted to post my teaching videos here. This last set of videos are
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As I mentioned earlier, I worked on a series of teaching videos about the Vietnam War for the Choices Program a few years ago. Sadly, Brown University shut down the Choices Program and scrubbed the website of the program’s contents. Therefore, I wanted to post my teaching videos here. The two videos in this post
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As I mentioned earlier, I worked on a series of teaching videos about the Vietnam War for the Choices Program a few years ago. Sadly, Brown University shut down the Choices Program and scrubbed the website of the program’s contents. Therefore, I wanted to post my teaching videos here. The videos on this post are
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As I mentioned in the last post, I worked on a series of teaching videos about the Vietnam War for the Choices Program a few years ago. Sadly, Brown University shut down the Choices Program and scrubbed the website of the program’s contents. Therefore, I wanted to post my teaching videos here. The videos in
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This post marks a new irregular series about professional work that is outside of my regular research and teaching but that are still informed by my academic training. I think of it as fun, cool, creative things that I get to do as a history professor now that I’ve received tenure. Of course, teaching my
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I regularly teach a survey course on the history of Vietnam, and I’m often struck by the stark differences between my introduction to the subject compared to my students. I grew up in a Vietnamese-American household, and I first learned history from my mother, who always taught in Vietnamese. She based her lessons on her
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This is my last post (at least for a while) drawn from my syllabus for my course on the Vietnam War. (See the full sample syllabus here and here for more detail.) Below is the journal prompt and readings about the opposition to Ngô Đình Diệm that I assign for week 6. Following that is
I wanted to follow up my earlier posts about teaching the Vietnam War with sample readings, including some original translations. (See the full sample syllabus here and here for more detail.) In the box below is the journal prompt and readings about the land reform that I assign for week 4 of the course as
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I wanted to follow up my earlier posts about teaching the Vietnam War with sample readings, including some original translations. (See the full sample syllabus here and here for more detail.) In the box below is the journal prompt and readings about communism and republican nationalism that I assign for week 2 of the course