https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1IsXP-__cA&feature=youtu.be The following works are referenced in this video: K. W. Taylor, “How I Began to Teach about the Vietnam War,” Michigan Quarterly Review vol. 43, no. 4 (2004): 637–647.…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnUqp3E6KBM Inspired by the “Bed-In for Peace” that John Lennon and Yoko Ono held in 1969, this is a “Bed-In” review of the book Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United…
I’ve said many times that the most important moment in Vietnamese history, in my opinion, is the early twentieth century, because it is the time when the Vietnamese world view…
The Geneva Accords of 1954 brought an end to the First Indochina War. As is well known, these accords called for the temporary division of the country at the 17th…
Last summer while in Bangkok I bought a book at Asia Books that was published a few years ago by the Fine Art Publishing House in Vietnam. It is called…
A friend recently pointed out to me that there is an article that North Vietnamese historian Trần Huy Liệu wrote in 1956 that more or less set the guidelines by…
Having posted some pictures from the South Vietnamese magazine, Vietnam Fights and Builds, from the 1960s, here are some images from a similar magazine from the same time period from…
I came across a magazine from the 1960s the other day called Vietnam Fights and Builds. It was published in South Vietnam and was written in English. It is obviously…
There was a magazine that was published in North Vietnam from the late 1950s into the 1970s called “VIET-NAM.” It was published in foreign languages and was a kind of…
Today I also found some texts that were used to teach the Vietnamese language to ethnic minorities in South Vietnam. This one is for the Cham, but there were other…