The Vietnam War is a highly controversial topic at the best of times. But during their many debates on the subject, Western historians rarely pause to consider how the conflict was seen through the ...
This week in history, on October 21, 1967, University of Connecticut students travelled to Washington, D.C., to participate in the March on the Pentagon, where more than 100,000 people rallied to ...
CENTRE COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — An event being held this weekend in Centre County is dedicated to the history of the Vietnam War and will also include an opportunity for Vietnam vets to reflect on their ...
The period from the Paris Peace Agreement of January 1973, which marked the end of the United States’ direct military involvement in the Vietnam War, to the fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in ...
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 ...
“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 ...
HO CHI MINH CITY — Vietnam on Wednesday celebrated the 50th anniversary of the end of the war with the United States and the formation of its modern nation with a military parade and a focus on a ...
On March 8, 1965, 3,500 Marines from the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade arrived in Da Nang, South Vietnam. Their mission was to protect a U.S. air base from attacks by the self-proclaimed National ...
What Is China Really Doing in Greenland? Fact-Checking Trump’s Arctic Claims The country is moving closer to a genuine reckoning with painful and politically sensitive realities about the war that ...
April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the end of South Vietnam and the conclusion of the Vietnam War. The toll it took on both North and South was enormous: 1.1 million ...