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HIST 3453 The US and the Vietnam War
(Prior to Fall 2010, this course was known as HIST 48.
The information below might still reflect the old course numbers. Bracketed numbers, if any, are the old course numbers. Learn more...)
3 hours; 3 credits
Historical background to the war in Vietnam; The French War in Indochina; origins of American involvement; conscription and issues of race, class, and ethnicity in the armed forces; strategy and tactics, 1965-1973; origins and growth of the antiwar movement; the Pentagon Papers and the role of the media; representations of the war in film, music, fiction, and personal memoirs; remembering the war in oral history.
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