Lectures tagged "Vietnam war"

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Cathy Wilkerson: My Life as a Weatherman
Cathy Wilkerson
April 16, 2009
01:01:30
Cathy Wilkerson, an activist in the civil rights movement, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Weathermen, was one of two women to survive an explosion in the basement of her family's townhouse, which killed three Weathermen, forcing the group underground.
Vietnam War and the Presidency: Keynote Speaker
David Halberstam
March 10, 2006
00:58:27
David Halberstam, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, gives the opening lecture at "Vietnam and the Presidency", a national conference where leading historians, key policymakers of the Vietnam War er
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After Saigon: Vietnamese Immigrants in America
Nam Pham
December 6, 2005
01:18:07
Thirty years ago, the Fall of Saigon ended the Viet Nam War and led to the first wave of Vietnamese immigration to Boston and other cities in the United States.
Detested Foe: America During WWII
Seth Jacobs
March 21, 2005
01:13:09
Seth Jacobs is an assistant professor of history at Boston College, specializing in US foreign policy.