DRV (North Vietnam)

A GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST FROM HANOI, 1958

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A ghost from Christmas past! That was my first thought upon laying eyes on the document. I was visiting Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa, and I happened on a memo that recounted a dramatic confrontation at the Hanoi cathdral, North Vietnam, on Christmas Eve over sixty years ago. Let me back up a little […]

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TEACHING THE VIETNAM WAR – A READING AND A MOVIE ABOUT THE LAND REFORM IN NORTH VIETNAM

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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 the land reform that I assign for week 4 of the course as

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