The 1960s were a time of major protests across the United States. Many people were unhappy with racial discrimination, unfair job practices and the Vietnam War. They used protests as a way to make ...

The beginnings of the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement -- The beginnings of artistic antiwar engagement: Artists and Writers Protest and the Artists' Protest Committee -- Creating antiwar art -- ...

The pictures made the story of the massacre inescapable. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING FOR SOME VIEWERS. Vietnam-- a war and a country with which America has never come to terms.

April 30 marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, and the end of a war that has profoundly shaped Vietnam and its place in the world. Today’s Vietnam is a world away from 1975; it is a young ...

Several thousand protesters marched in Washington, DC, on Saturday to demand that US President Donald Trump end the ...

Pamela McElwee receives funding from the Carnegie Corporation, National Science Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities. When the Vietnam War finally ended on April 30, 1975, it left ...

Those of us who were alive in the Vietnam era will remember the sight of Soviet-built tanks rolling into the presidential palace in Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City. The US had failed to keep South ...

Eight years before the U.S.-backed regime in South Vietnam collapsed, I stood with high school friends at Manhattan’s Penn Station on the night of April 15, 1967, waiting for a train back to ...

Vietnam is still plagued by the toxic legacy of chemical warfare. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam—It was Vietnam’s 50th anniversary on April 30—marked by millions celebrating the end of the US war, and a ...