After sharing a syllabus for teaching the Vietnam War, I wanted to share a two sample assignments in this post and the next. One of the major readings on the syllabus is Nguyễn Công Luận’s memoir, Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars. I enjoy teaching this book for a number of reasons. First, the section […]
This post is a follow up to the previous one and features the second half of my sample syllabus for teaching the Vietnam War from multiple Vietnamese perspectives. SAMPLE SYLLABUS: HISTORY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (second half of semester) CONFLICT (cont.) 8. The Big War Journal prompt: How did Hayslip and her family’s attitude towards
The Vietnam War is one of the most popular history courses on American college campuses, but the vast majority of such courses present the war as an event in American history. If professors incorporate Vietnamese perspectives at all, it is almost exclusively the perspective of Vietnamese communists, and students come away from the experience thinking