The Vietnam War

Kara Dixon Vuic, Texas Christian University

This reading seminar will explore America’s Vietnam War in the larger context of Vietnamese history and the Cold War, American political and military strategy, and the American social and cultural climate of the 1960s and early 1970s. A history of the war both at home and abroad, the course will consider the broad and lasting influences of the war on Vietnam, on American political institutions, and on American national identity. Our readings will thus introduce us to such topics as military strategy, diplomacy, gender, class, race, ethnicity, and memory. The class coincides with the 2019 LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium on War, Conflict, and Society, which will focus on the Vietnam War.