At the height of the Vietnam War, American society was so severely fragmented that it seemed that Americans may never again share common concerns. The media and

In The Scar That Binds, Keith Beattie examines the central metaphors of the Vietnam War and their manifestations in American culture and life. Blending history

This book examines the response of American society to the My Lai massacre and its ambiguous place in American national memory. The author argues that the massa

In Four Decades On, historians, anthropologists, and literary critics examine the legacies of the Second Indochina War, or what most Americans call the Vietnam

In this major reconceptualization of the history of U.S. foreign policy, Walter Hixson engages with the entire sweep of that history, from its Puritan beginning