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Topic: The Vietnam War

A photo of the author taken by John Perry Barlow; John Perry Barlow (Wikimedia/Joi Ito/Salon)

My long strange winter trip with Barlow

James McEnteer
(AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump's Vietnam bone spurs were bogus

Shira Tarlo
A photo of the author taken by John Perry Barlow; John Perry Barlow (Wikimedia/Joi Ito/Salon)

My long strange winter trip with Barlow

James McEnteer
"The Vietnam War" (PBS)

What Ken Burns gets wrong about Vietnam

Patrick Lawrence
(Wikimedia Commons)

Agent Orange, exposed

Jason von Meding - The Conversation
Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Getty/Win McNamee)

How the Vietnam Memorial broke the rules

James Reston Jr.
Author Norman Mailer speaks at an anti-war rally at the bandshell in New York's Central Park, March 26, 1966.

Ken Burns doesn't get antiwar protesters

Jim Sleeper - Alternet
(AP)

Nixon, Vietnam & polarization politics

Ken Hughes
U.S. Marines on a patrol 15 miles southwest of Da Nang airbase in Vietnam, May 20, 1965. (AP/John T. Wheeler)

When music united a divided nation

Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff - The Conversation
"The Vietnam War" (PBS)

Ken Burns on making "The Vietnam War"

Melanie McFarland
Richard Nixon (AP)

"This is treason"

Ken Hughes
"The Vietnam War" (PBS)

The Vietnam War

Melanie McFarland
(AP Photo/Dang Van Phuoc, File)

Vietnam changed war

Richard Lachmann - The Conversation
In this April 1917 file photo, World War I Army recruits who answered the call to enlist fill a street in New York City shortly after President Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany. Thursday, April 6, 2017, marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I, and some of the innovations that were developed or came into wide use during the conflict are still with us today, including the iconic image of Uncle Sam on recruiting posters pointing, with the message "I WANT YOU for the U.S. ARMY." (AP Photo, File ) (AP)

John Dower
Lyndon B. Johnson (AP/Charles Tasnadi)

LBJ's "addiction" to Vietnam

George C. Herring