BOISE, Idaho — On April 23, 1975, in front of a crowd at Tulane University, President Gerald Ford declared the war in Vietnam over. Seven days later, on April 30, 1975, the fall of Saigon officially ...
When The Sorrow of War was honored as one of Vietnam’s 50 most significant cultural works since reunification, the ceremony was brief and quiet. On stage, the novelist Bao Ninh — slight, soft-spoken, ...
WASHINGTON D.C. (WBNG) -- Vietnam War veterans are finding names of fallen comrades and experiencing emotional healing during visits to the Vietnam Memorial, more than five decades after the war ended ...
Vietnam War veteran Maurice Moreau recounts harrowing experiences, including surviving attacks and losing a friend. Moreau highlights the difficulty of identifying the enemy, as Viet Cong often ...
Associate Professor Phi Vân Nguyen is a historian in the Department of Social Science and Humanities at the Université de Saint-Boniface in Winnipeg, Canada. Her research examines war, migration, and ...
The Vietnam War remains one of the most divisive and controversial chapters in U.S. history. It was a conflict marked by a host of political and military miscalculations, devastating human loss, and ...
How could America lose the Vietnam War? Even now, 50 years after the last American helicopters left Saigon, the answer is elusive. Despite pouring immense resources into Vietnam — including nearly 3 ...
Vinh Nguyen has lived in Iowa for decades, but he grew up in Vietnam during the war, which ended April 30, 1975. 50 years ago, Vinh Nguyen was a teen during the fall of then-Saigon in Vietnam. Nguyen ...
As a young man, Lon Holmberg was a staunch critic of the Vietnam War, even protesting America’s involvement in the conflict. But when Holmberg was called to duty via the military draft, despite his ...
In “McNamara at War,” the brothers William and Philip Taubman probe the mind of a Harvard Business School technocrat who tried to overhaul the American military. By James Santel James Santel is a ...