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NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on "America's Longest War: Vietnam, 1945-1975," at the University of Miami, June 20-July 29, 2005
| Location: | Florida, United States |
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2005-03-01 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2005-01-18 |
| Announcement ID: |
143493 |
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NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on "America's Longest War: Vietnam, 1945-1975," at the University of Miami, June 20-July 29, 2005. For information, e-mail the address provided below. Topics to be considered include:
- Kennedy's advisory war
- Johnson's escalation of the war
- U.S. military strategy
- North Vietnamese strategy
- Vietnamese revolutionaries
- the war in the countryside
- Nixon's and Kissinger's policies
- Vietnamization; Robert McNamara's role in the war
- legacy of the war
Books to be read include:
- Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie
- Kaiser, American Tragedy
- Logevall, Choosing War
- Berman, Planning a Tragedy
- Summers, On Stratgy
- Davidson, Vietnam at War
- Duiker, Sacred War and portions of Ho Chi Minh
- Bergerud, The Dynamics of Defeat
- Berman, No Peace, No Honor
- Sorley, A Better War
- McNamara, In Retrospect
- Lind, Vietnam, The Necessary War
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Charles Neu
Department of History
Box 248107
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL 33124-4662
305-668-7978
Email: cneu@bellsouth.net
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