Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Key Questions and Enduring Debates
John Day Tully, Matthew Masur, and Brad Austin
Part 1. Reflections on Teaching the Vietnam War
1. Teaching the Vietnam War: A Life History
Marilyn B. Young
2. Teaching the Vietnam War: Recollections and Reflections from More than Thirty Years
George C. Herring
Part 2. Methods and Sources
3. Putting Students in "Their Shoes": A Decision-Making Approach
Kevin O'Reilly
4. Understanding the Vietnam Era through Music
Hugo A. Keesing
5. "We Must Bear a Good Deal of Responsibility for It": The White House Tapes and the War in Vietnam
Mitchell B. Lerner
6. Movies and the Vietnam War
Scott Laderman
7. The Books We Carry: Teaching the Vietnam War through Literature
Maureen Ryan
8. Teaching the Vietnam War in the Internet Age: Libraries, Websites, and Information Literacy
Richard Hume Werking and Brian C. Etheridge
9. Hearts, Minds, and Voices: The Vietnam War and Oral History
Andrew Darien
Part 3. Understanding and Teaching Specific Content
10. Nationalism, Communism, and the Vietnam War
Matthew Masur
11. From the French to the Americans
Kathryn C. Statler
12. Teaching the Antiwar Movement: Confronting Popular Myths, Teaching Complexity
David Steigerwald
13. The Vietnamese Sides of the 'American' War
Tuan Hoang
14. "America's Most Loyal Allies": The Hmong and the War
Chia Youyee Vang,
15. Vietnamese Americans in the Context of the Vietnam War
Karín Aguilar-San Juan
16. The Tet Offensive in the Classroom
Andrew Wiest
17. Teaching the Collective Memory and Lessons of the Vietnam War
David Ryan and David Fitzgerald
18. Teaching the Vietnam War in Secondary Schools and Survey Classrooms
Stephen Armstrong
Contributors
Index