Fifty years after its horrors, we know that the press helped to turn public opinion against the conflict. That’s because war is hell, and hell is photogenic.
In “McNamara at War,” the brothers William and Philip Taubman probe the mind of a Harvard Business School technocrat who ...
John “Jack” Ensch, Everett Alvarez and Michael “Mike” McGrath had a common bond as prisoners at the “Hanoi Hilton,” but each had his own experiences.
A divisive conflict that had long-term implications for the U.S., the Vietnam War was initially a civil war that became a broader/global one, with the U.S. and its allies supporting South Vietnam, and ...
On May 8, 1970, “the Hard Hat Riot” erupted in lower Manhattan. At midday, construction workers, including those building the World Trade Center, violently clashed with students demonstrating against ...