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Written for undergradaute courses on postwar American foreign policy, Southeast Asian history, the Cold War, the Vietnam war, international relations, decolonization, and third world communism, this introduction uses the wealth of recent research to place the Vietnam war within the contexts of European colonization, American Cold War strategy and Vietnam's own political history

Indochinese War, 1946-1954 --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese War, 1961-1975 --- Indochina War, 1946-1954 --- Historiography. --- Vietnam --- History

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J. William Fulbright was the longest serving and most powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Both an intellectual and an internationalist, he had great influence over the course of American foreign relations in the 1960s and 1970s. Fulbright was also the most prominent, and the most effective, of the first American critics of the Vietnam War. His criticism was particularly galling and damning to Lyndon Johnson because Fulbright was a principled internationalist who could not be dismissed as an ideologue. Fulbright used hearings by the Foreign Relations Committee as a forum in which to advance his powerful critique of the war, and his writings constitute an ongoing, comprehensive critique of American foreign policy. This abridgement of Woods' prize-winning biography of J. William Fulbright presents the full story of Fulbright's role as one of the leading congressional opponents of the Vietnam War.

Fulbright, James William --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Legislators --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975. --- Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese War, 1961-1975 --- Fulbright, J. William --- Fulbraĭt, Dzh. Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- Fulbright, James William, --- Fulbright, J. W. --- Fulbright, William, --- United States. --- Mei-kuo tsʻan i yüan --- United States --- Foreign relations

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On May 9, 1990, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a ring with letter, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, a baseball, a photo album, an ace of spades, and a pie were some of the objects left at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial. For Kristin Hass, this eclectic sampling represents an attempt by ordinary Americans to come to terms with a multitude of unnamed losses as well as to take part in the ongoing debate of how this war should be remembered. Hass explores the restless memory of the Vietnam War and an American public still grappling with its commemoration. In doing so it considers the ways Americans have struggled to renegotiate the meanings of national identity, patriotism, community, and the place of the soldier, in the aftermath of a war that ruptured the ways in which all of these things have been traditionally defined. Hass contextualizes her study of this phenomenon within the history of American funerary traditions (in particular non-Anglo traditions in which material offerings are common), the history of war memorials, and the changing symbolic meaning of war. Her evocative analysis of the site itself illustrates and enriches her larger theses regarding the creation of public memory and the problem of remembering war and the resulting causalities--in this case not only 58,000 soldiers, but also conceptions of masculinity, patriotism, and working-class pride and idealism.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington, D.C.) --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Patriotism --- War memorials --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Public opinion --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Southeast Asia --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese War, 1961-1975 --- War monuments --- Art and war --- Memorials --- Monuments --- Military parks --- Soldiers' monuments --- Public opinion. --- 20th century american culture. --- aftermath of war. --- american culture. --- american society. --- american war memorials. --- commemoration. --- community. --- funerary traditions. --- gender studies. --- idealism. --- masculinity. --- meaning of war. --- memory of bodies. --- memory of war. --- mourning. --- national community. --- national identity. --- patriotism. --- public memory. --- remembering war. --- seashell monuments. --- soldier. --- united states of america. --- vietnam veterans memorial. --- vietnam veterans. --- vietnam war. --- vietnam. --- war memorials. --- war. --- working class.