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 ...

In March 1965, the United States became involved in the Vietnam War to prevent communism from spreading to that recently divided country’s southern half. That same year, a nationwide protest movement ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam Bob Dylan, whose anti-war anthems made him the face of protest against a war that continues to haunt a generation of Americans, finally got his chance to see Vietnam at peace ...

STRATFORD — A little more than a year after William O’Brien Jr. finished a 13-month tour of duty in Vietnam, he climbed onto a bus headed for Washington, D.C. The then-college student had heard word a ...

Vietnam War Army veteran Harry Metzler pays respects to men he served with in the 1st Infantry Division at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day, November 11, 2024. Fifty years ago, communist ...

This photo provided by Jeanie Jacobs Huffman shows her on the beach in June 2024, two miles away from where her father's plane and crew were discovered in 70 feet of water, in Thanh Hoa Province, ...

“Turning Point: The Vietnam War” opens with Brooklyn-born Scott Camil telling his piece of the American story. Camil says his stepfather was involved in the John Birch Society and hammered into him ...

Test your knowledge about the conflict that defined a generation. A half-century after the war’s finale, the aging of the baby boomer generation means firsthand memories of the conflict are fading.

Cast members of the TV series "M*A*S*H" appear on the set during taping in Los Angeles in 1982. (Wally Fong/AP) Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...