
America and the Vietnam War
Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation
- 326 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
America and the Vietnam War
Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation
About this book
The Vietnam War was one of the most heavily documented conflicts of the twentieth century. Although the events themselves recede further into history every year, the political and cultural changes the war brought about continue to resonate, even as a new generation of Americans grapples with its own divisive conflict.
America and the Vietnam War: Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation reconsiders the social and cultural aspects of the conflict that helped to fundamentally change the nation. With chapters written by subject area specialists, America and the Vietnam War takes on subjects such as women's role in the war, the music and the films of the time, the Vietnamese perspective, race and the war, and veterans and post-traumatic stress disorder. Features include:
- chapter summaries
- timelines
- discussion questions
- guides to further reading
- a companion website with primary source documents and tools (such as music and movie playlists) for both instructors and students.
Heavily illustrated and welcoming to students and scholars of this infamous and pivotal time, America and the Vietnam War is a perfect companion to any course on the Vietnam War Era.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Introduction: Vietnam in history and memory
- 1 Vietnam divided: regional history and the Vietnam wars, 1598–1975
- 2 Historians and the origins of the Vietnam War
- 3 The “other” Vietnam War
- 4 The Women’s Army Corps goes to Vietnam
- 5 The Black Panthers and the Vietnam War
- 6 Patriots for peace: people-to-people diplomacy and the anti-war movement
- 7 Vietnam and the conscientious objector experience
- 8 The American POW experience
- 9 Post-traumatic stress disorder and healing from the war
- 10 The Vietnam War and literature
- 11 Vietnam and film
- 12 The soundtrack of Vietnam
- 13 The legacy of the Vietnam War for the US Army
- 14 Iraq as “the good war” as opposed to Vietnam, the bad war
- Contributors
- Index