Resistance War/First Indochina War

MEMORABLE MUSIC: PHẠM’ DUY’S “RIDDLES” (“ĐỐ AI”), TRACK 17 ON SAIGON ROCK & SOUL

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Phạm Duy’s “Riddles” (“Đố ai,” 1954?) is a charming song that mixes tradition and modernity. It is the last track on Saigon Rock & Soul, and this post will probably be my last one in my series-within-a-series translating the lyrics of songs from that CD. “Riddles” exemplifies a Vietnamese musical genre known as “new folk […]

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TEACHING THE VIETNAM WAR – NGUYỄN CÔNG LUẬN’S NATIONALIST IN THE VIET NAM WARS AND A SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

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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

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TEACHING THE VIETNAM WAR FROM MULTIPLE VIETNAMESE PERSPECTIVES – A SAMPLE SYLLABUS (PART 1)

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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

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