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2/14/2021
King’s Final Book: Both Political Roadmap and Passionate Sermon
by Fred Zilian
As Black History Month unfolds amid an atmosphere of crisis and division like that which prevailed in 1968, it's worth revisiting Martin Luther King's publication that year of "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community" – a call for reordering national priorities toward justice through politics and for renewed spiritual and ethical dedication to shared humanity.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/29/2021
What Should Drive Biden’s Foreign Policy?
Columnist and Humphrey biographer James Traub says the former Senator and VP's interventionist liberalism in foreign policy is a model for Joe Biden's administration to reestablish American preeminence in world affairs.
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7/26/2020
One of the Chicago 7 Reflects on Dissident Politics Then and Now
by Lee Weiner
A veteran of dissident politics in the 1960s warns that while today's broad coalition of activists for a more just and democratic America are on the right track, they must learn from the mistakes of an older generation and find ways to keep united despite difference.
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7/12/2020
"The Day I Start Being Free": Detained Migrants Struggle for Human Rights
by Jana Lipman
The experiences of Vietnamese refugees in the 1990s, who experienced detention and a bureaucratic process exposing them to dangerous repatriation, are a precedent for the treatment of asylum-seekers in contemporary America.
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SOURCE: TIME
6/25/2020
21 Lessons From America's Worst Moments
Historians reflect on the lessons to be learned from the worst episodes of American history (if Americans can look unflinchingly on them).
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
5/11/2020
The Myth of Henry Kissinger
by Thomas Meaney
Barry Gewen's new biography of the American national security figure argues that Kissinger's perspective was shaped by stories older German emigres told him about the end of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism.
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SOURCE: New York Times Book Review
3/17/2020
A Stirring Family Saga Tells a Taboo History of Vietnam
by Gaiutra Bahadur
Americans may not know that literature has been doing history’s job with brutal episodes in Vietnam’s past.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
1/17/20
Can Historical Analysis Help Reduce Military Deaths By Suicide?
by Jeffrey Smith, Michael Doidge, Ryan Hanoa, and B. Christopher Frueh
A longer look reveals interesting patterns and may clarify what is driving a rise in suicides.
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1/19/20
What Dreams of Canada Tell Us About Race in America
by April Rosenblum
At a time when American casualties in Vietnam were disproportionately African American, most of those who successfully made it to Canada to resist the draft were white.
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1/19/20
Four Speeches by Dr. King That Can Still Guide Us Today
by Alan Singer
Martin Luther King, Jr. challenged the war in Vietnam, U.S. imperialism, and laws that victimized working people and the poor, not just racial discrimination.
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9/29/19
Myth vs History: A Study of Vietnam War Stories and Journalism
by Jerry Lembcke
Australia’s Vietnam by Mark Dapin is important for the rectification it brings to public memory of Vietnam War homecomings.
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
8/11/19
Historian Tom Engelhardt Revisits His First Piece of Critical History – 48 Years Later
by Tom Engelhardt
How Hollywood created a spectacle of slaughter at the movies in which colonial and imperial history was flipped on its head.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
The U.S.’s Toxic Agent Orange Legacy
Washington has admitted to the long-lasting effects of dioxin use in Vietnam, but has largely sidestepped the issue in neighboring Cambodia and Laos.
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SOURCE: Time
5/24/19
Peace With Honor: What Vietnam Can Teach Us About How to Leave Afghanistan
by Thurston Clarke
Nixon promised the Paris Peace Accords ending the Vietnam War would bring “peace with honor.” They brought neither, and it now appears that the Afghan War is headed for a similar denouement.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/13/19
Vietnam’s Communist Party Ousts Historian Who Criticized Its China Policy
The historian Tran Duc Anh Son said that Vietnam has irrefutable claims to islands in the South China Sea that China claims as its own.
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SOURCE: NPR
3/4/19
40 Years After The Vietnam War, Some Refugees Face Deportation Under Trump
U.S. officials have been working behind the scenes to convince the Vietnamese government to repatriate more than 7,000 Vietnamese immigrants with criminal convictions.
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SOURCE: Time
2/6/19
How the U.S. Departure From Afghanistan Could Echo Kissinger's Moves in Vietnam
by David Kaiser
Neither involvement, in retrospect, was ever likely to have succeeded, because the political forces the U.S. chose to support were too weak to deal with an armed opposition supported from a neighboring territory.
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2/2/19
Is This the Right Way to End a War?
Many experts worry that the U.S. is repeating the mistakes of Vietnam in Afghanistan.
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SOURCE: Dallas Morning News
10-24-18
That sensational New York Times story about LBJ saving America from nuclear war in Vietnam is wrong says author Gregg Jones
by Gregg Jones
It was based on Michael Beschloss’s new book.
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SOURCE: Special to HNN
5/25/18
Historian William Polk is alarmed at the latest plan to stabilize Afghanistan
by William Polk
The situation is terrible now and looks like it will get worse.
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