...Stephen Vlastos Copyright © 1993 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1993 Losing the Vietnam War Stephen Vlastos Marilyn Young, The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990. New York Harper- Collins, 1991. $25.00 (cloth), $10.95 (paper). Nancy...

...Ann Ngoc Tran Abstract This article theorizes and historicizes soap, a medical “gift” distributed by the US military to villages and hamlets in South Vietnam, as a commodity and as an infrastructure in the American war in Vietnam. During the war, soap not only operated as a tool to clean those...

... of the Vietnam War in Television Documentaries Stephen Vlastos The determination of the Reagan Administration to crush left revolutions in Central America lends new urgency to the ongoing historical debate on the Vietnam war. No matter how...

...Richard Moser Copyright © 1994 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1994 Vietnam: War and Legacy Richard Moser Middle Tennessee State University Spring 1993 This course is designed to introduce advanced undergraduates to a multi- disciplinary study...

...Josh Brown; Ellen Noonan Copyright ©2000 MARHO: The Radical Historian's Organization, Inc. 2000 Calls to Action: Posters of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement Josh Brown and Ellen Noonan Edward Morgan’s essay...

... Americans and people of color were Nixonized both globally and on the domestic front. After Nixon was elected, he con- tinued the ungodly and destructive Vietnam War. From 1968 to 1973, 1,435 blacks died in the Vietnam War while thousands more were injured, as Nixon, Henry Kissinger, General...

...Patrick Chung Abstract This article provides a prehistory of the “container revolution” that occurred during the Vietnam War. It situates containerization in Vietnam within the broader history of US military-led capitalist globalization, demonstrating how US military contracting influenced...

...Paul L. Atwood The history professor Andrew Bacevich of Boston University is a West Point graduate, a Vietnam War veteran, a self-styled conservative, and a leading critic of over-reach in U.S. foreign policy. He was interviewed in November 2010 by Paul L. Atwood of the University of Massachusetts...

... Historians’ Organization, Inc. 51 52  Radical History Review was the first funeral of its kind since services for the unknown sol- dier of the Vietnam War in 1984. With special reference to the five people killed who were never identi- fied, including a three- ­year-­old girl...

.... Course Objectives By semester’s end, students will: 1. be familiar with the Vietnam experience from the veteran’s perspective; 166 TEACHING RADICAL HISTORY/l67 2. appreciate the effects of the War on its participants; and 3...

... Copyright © 1994 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1994 Notes on Contributors Marc Adin is a Vietnam veteran and a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He is an assistant vice president of administration at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New...

... since media coverage of the ”Battle in Seattle” was saturated with references to the Vietnam War, despite its distance of twenty-five years and a number of highly significant mass mobilizations in the intervening years. In fact, as we shall see, the Vietnam antiwar experience has become...

...-good” civil rights movement, mainstream condemnation of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s public critique of the Vietnam War, and the pervasive trivialization of the 1960s in The Big Chill and elsewhere. I address all of these more extensively in my forthcoming book on the media’s ”framing...

... in the Gulf; it is being remade. And it is being remade in several ways. On the one hand, the war is being marketed as a more satisfying remake of Vietnam, a sequel in which the once craven politicians finally find the courage to remove the handcuffs from the American air force...

..., 2002. In the aftermath of the U.S. victory in the Gulf War, the first president George Bush was optimistic that the country had “kicked the Vietnam syndrome.” But the syn- drome continued to manifest itself in the popular imagination of war. The Rambo...

... of the popular new ideas of the Goldwater camp. 12 In the mid-1960s, Rumsfeld’s skepticism of federal spending and his hawkishness in foreign policy intersected as he began to challenge President Johnson’s strategy in Vietnam. Like many Republicans, Rumsfeld believed the president was mismanaging the war...

... of goodwill” in Washington's ongoing struggle against the putative communist menace. Scott Laderman teaches history at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. He is the author of Empire in Waves: A Political History of Surfing (2014) and Tours of Vietnam: War, Travel Guides, and Memory (2009). ©...

... that flourished in leftist magazines and journals. This is because these periodicals avoided the popular anti-fascist and anti-imperialist tropes and deployed analytical rather than analogical approaches. For instance, the PCI’s theoretical magazines, when addressing the Vietnam War, examined peaceful coexistence...

.... An extraordinary historian and a razor-­sharp critic, she was able to convey the urgency of these matters to mul- tiple generations and by so doing strengthened the impetus to activism. Marilyn Young’s 1991 book The Vietnam Wars remains a classic, still assigned in college courses. Written before...

...”-an online BitNet list devoted to discussion of the Vietnam War, for which I serve as archivist. The students were stunned. Take a pub- lic position on something? Wow.I figure if the students learn this stuff well enough, they should be able to hold their own in an argument in any bar. (VWAR-L...