Vietnam

This agreement was signed by the French government and the anti-colonialist, socialist Viet Minh guerilla force. It divided Vietnam into two halves at the 17th parallel, with the northern half administered by the Viet Minh and the southern half under the French, although the two sections were meant…

<p>We weren't always welcomed home from the war. But we were good at what we did and the patients knew we mattered. </p>

<p><span class="deck"> LBJ AND VIETNAM</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The first major engagement of the U. S. Army in Vietnam was a decisive American victory. Perhaps it would have been better for all of us if it had been a defeat.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">After a year at the University of Missouri studying American history, a Chinese professor tells what she discovered about us and how she imparts her new knowledge to the folks back home.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">That was the question an Oklahoma high school teacher sent out in a handwritten note to men and women who had been prominent movers or observers during the Vietnam War. Politicians, journalists, generals, and combat veterans answered him. Secretaries of Defense answered him. Presidents answered him. Taken together, the answers form a powerful and moving record of the national conscience.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">He didn’t want the job, but felt he should do it. For the first time, the soldier who tracked down the My Lai story for the office of the inspector general in 1969 tells what it was like to do some of this era’s grimmest detective work.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A civilian adventurer gave us the best artist’s record of America in Vietnam.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Jan Wollett found herself on the last flight of refugees out of a crumbling Da Nang in 1975.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Jack Kennedy came into the White House determined to dismantle his Republican predecessor’s rigid, formal staff organization, in favor of a spontaneous, flexible, hands-on management style. Thirty years later, Bill Clinton seems determined to do the same thing. He would do well to remember that what it got JFK was the Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam War.</span></p>

<p>The general responsible for remaking the American Army in the aftermath of the Cold War knows a great deal of history, and it sustains him in a very tough job.</p>

<p><span class="deck">FOR MORE THAN A DECADE NOW, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS HAVE BEEN LEAVING LETTERS AND SNAPSHOTS, CIGARETTES AND CLOTHING AND BEER FOR THEIR FRIENDS, LOVERS, AND PARENTS WHO NEVER MADE IT BACK FROM VIETNAM.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A tantalizing archival discovery suggests the perils of historical evidence.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How a patch of ground forged a man’s future, stole a part of his soul, and gave it back to him 30 years later</span></p>

<p><em>American Heritage </em>has published many important essays on the history of the Vietnam War.</p>

<p>When the Pentagon wanted a photographer to record the largest airborne assault in the Vietnam War, the most qualified candidate was a young French woman.</p>