Understanding and Teaching the Vietnam War

Contents

vii Con­ tents Pref­ ace xi Ac­ knowl­ edg­ ments xiii Intro­ duc­ tion: Key Ques­ tions and En­ dur­ ing De­ bates 3 john day Tully, mat­ thew masur, and brad aus­ tin Part One: Re­ flec­ tions on Teach­ ing the Viet­ nam War Teach­ ing the Viet­ nam War: A Life His­ tory 21 mar­ i­ lyn b. young Teach­ ing the Viet­ nam War: Rec­ ol­ lec­ tions and Re­ flec­ tions from More than ­ Thirty Years 26­ george c. her­ ring Part Two: Meth­ ods and ­ Sources Put­ ting Stu­ dents in “Their Shoes”: A ­ Decision-Making Ap­ proach to Teach­ ing the Viet­ nam War 41 kevin ­ o’reilly Under­ stand­ ing the Viet­ nam Era ­ through Music 57 hugo a. kees­ ing “We Must Bear a Good Deal of Re­ spon­ sibil­ ity for It”: The White House Tapes and the War in Viet­ nam 75 mitch­ ell b. ­ lerner viii contents Mo­ vies and the Viet­ nam War 96 s c ott la­ der­ man The Books We Carry: Teach­ ing the Viet­ nam War­ through Lit­ er­ a­ ture 111 m au­ reen ryan Teach­ ing the Viet­ nam War in the Inter­ net Age: Li­ brar­ ies, Web­ sites, and In­ for­ ma­ tion Lit­ er­ acy 127 ri ch­ ard hume werk­ ing and brian c. ethe­ ridge­ Hearts, Minds, and ­ Voices: The Viet­ nam War and Oral His­ tory 150 a n­ drew ­ darien Part Three: Under­ stand­ ing and Teach­ ing Spe­ cific Con­ tent Na­ tion­ al­ ism, Com­ mu­ nism, and the Viet­ nam War 169 m at­ thew masur From the ­ French to the ­ Americans 185 k a th­ ryn c. stat­ ler Teach­ ing the Anti­ war Move­ ment: Con­ front­ ing Pop­ u­ lar Myths, Teach­ ing Com­ plex­ ity 202 da vid stei­ ger­ wald The Viet­ na­ mese Sides of the “American” War 223 tuan hoang “Amer­ ica’s Most Loyal Al­ lies”: The Hmong and the War 245 c hia ­ youyee vang Viet­ na­ mese ­ Americans in the Con­ text of the Viet­ nam War 259 k a rín ­ aguilar-san juan The Tet Of­ fen­ sive in the Class­ room 276 a n­ drew wiest ix Contents Teach­ ing the Col­ lec­ tive Mem­ ory and Les­ sons of the Viet­ nam War 292 david fitz­ ge­ rald and d avid ryan Teach­ ing the Viet­ nam War in Sec­ on­ dary ­ Schools and Sur­ vey Class­ rooms 313 ste­ phen arm­ strong Con­ trib­ u­ tors 229 Index 335 ...