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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Whatever one’s position is on the Vietnam War, I think just about everyone would agree that the conflict remains a major topic of debate to this day. Of course, wars by their very nature tend to generate controversy, but at least for Americans and Vietnamese, this particular conflict is arguably more contentious than just about
I am marking the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War in 1975 with an irregular series that reflects on the war’s end and its aftermath. This third second post is about Phan Thúy Hà’s Don’t Mention My Name, which serves as a foil to Phan Nhật Nam’s Stories Along the Road. Phan Thúy Ha’s Don’t
Today is the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War on April 30, 1975. I wanted to mark the occasion with an irregular series that reflect on the war’s end and its aftermath. My very first post in the series is about Phan Nhật Nam’s Stories Along the Road, a book that reflects
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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