civilian life

COOL THINGS THAT HISTORIANS DO: TEACHING VIDEOS ON THE VIETNAM WAR (2)

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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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FUN READS: THE ENCROACHMENT OF WAR ON CIVILIAN LIFE IN NHÃ CA’S AT NIGHT I HEAR THE CANNONS (ĐÊM NGHE TIẾNG ĐẠI BÁC)

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Nhã Ca’s At Night I Hear the Cannons (Đêm nghe tiếng đại bác, 1966) poignantly captures the moment when the Vietnam War began encroaching on civilian life in Saigon. Set in the mid-1960s, the novel centers on a northern Vietnamese family of modest means who emigrated to Saigon when the country was divided a decade

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