Arts of War

African-American Military Info Wanted for Exhibit

January 7, 2010

For its annual Black History event February 25, the Newton White Museum in Mitchellville, Maryland, is looking for information on African Americans in the military, from World War I to the Vietnam War. In you'd…

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War Correspondent William Tuohy, 1926-2010

January 3, 2010

William Tuohy, the well-respected former Newsweek and Los Angeles Times Vietnam War correspondent, died Dec. 31 following open heart surgery in Santa Monica, California. He was 83, and had received the Pulitzer Prize in 1969…

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The Latest Labowski Book

January 3, 2010

When I saw The Big Lebowski in 1998, I loved it. But I had no idea it would become a cultural icon that would spawn its own subculture of devotees. I just thought it was…

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C.D.B. Bryan, 1936-2009

December 20, 2009

C.D.B. Bryan, the journalist and author best known for his best-selling 1976 book, Friendly Fire , the story of the death in Vietnam in 1970 of infantryman Michael Mullen by an errant U.S. artillery round,…

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The Philosopher Kings Doc, Featuring Two Nam Vets

December 13, 2009

The new documentary, The Philosopher Kings , looks at the lives of a eight custodians who work at several universities, including Cornell, Princeton, Duke, and Cal Tech. "The idea was to seek wisdom from those…

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Call for Popular Culture Papers

December 9, 2009

December 15 is the deadline for proposal submissions for presentations for this year's Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference, which will be held March 31-April 3 at the Renaissance Grand Hotel in St. Louis--and…

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Former Military Interrogators Wanted

December 9, 2009

Matthew Alexander, a former military interrogator and a Iraq War veteran, is conducting research on interrogation methods at American University in Washington, D.C., and is writing an unofficial interrogation manual to supplement the Army Field…

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William Kunstler Doc

December 9, 2009

Back in the late seventies or early eighties when I was working as a journalist in Washington, D.C., I covered a press conference in which the famed radical activist lawyer William Kunstler was a featured…

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New Doc to Honor Michigan Vietnam Veterans

November 29, 2009

Detroit-based Visionalist Entertainment Productions and Executive Producer Keith Famie will be producing a documentary next year called "Michigan: Our Vietnam Generation." The doc will pay homage to the service and sacrifice of Michigan's Vietnam veterans. …

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Veterans' Stories Wanted

November 18, 2009

PublishingWorks , a New Hampshire book publisher, is looking for submissions from veterans for a book tentatively titled Moments of Honor , which will be published next Veterans Day. The proposed book will contain 20-30…

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