Articles Related to Vietnam War History
The Eve of Destruction by James T. Patterson
March 8, 2013
Lyndon Johnson wanted to fight the war on poverty, not the war in Vietnam. But LBJ, who took office in November of 1963 following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, felt he needed to show…
Drift by Rachel Maddow
May 4, 2012
Rachel Maddow, the popular TV and radio political pundit of the left, has hit the jackpot with her new book, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power (Crown, 275 pp., $25). The book, a well-written and well-argued…
A Vietnam War Reader edited by Michael H. Hunt
April 4, 2012
Students of history know that primary sources---such as letters, diaries, newspaper articles, speeches, transcribed conversations, and official documents---are the key to understanding any historical event. Michael H. Hunt, an emeritus history professor at the University…