…and how they were forced into reservations, we got a chapter on slavery and the underground railroad, and then an even briefer section about the Vietnam War. But what exactly…
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Digital Textbook on Korean War to Be Produced for U.S. Schools
…that of the Vietnam War. Sometimes, the Korean War is only summed up in one paragraph. Choi Wan-gun, the deputy chief of the veteran affairs ministry, said, “I am very…
Trump Discusses Trade Deficit With Vietnamese PM
…U.S. and Vietnam normalized ties in 1995, two decades after the Vietnam War’s end. Under President Barack Obama, diplomatic and security ties blossomed, as Vietnam sought ways to counter China’s…
McDonald’s Opens First Restaurant in Vietnam
…to the country: the McPork sandwich. Free markets have viewed Vietnam has one of the last Asian countries with potential for consumerism following the end of the Vietnam war in…
March Issue: Why Late SKorean Dictator Park Chung-hee Is The Most Popular President Ever
…downshifting of U.S. support; the Cold War in Asia was winding down, with the end of the Vietnam War and Nixon’s visit to China. Park started to force government subsidies…
‘Boat People’: The Horror Stories of The Vietnam Exodus
…survived one of the largest mass exoduses in history – an exodus which had more than a million Vietnamese citizens fleeing their homeland after the Vietnam War. The book’s editor,…
Getting to Know Visual Artist Bridget Rhee
…that Rhee’s father spent his childhood in Vietnam due to the Korean War. Rhee’s father spent his childhood in Vietnam due to the Vietnam War, as his father was stationed…
Vietnamese American Community Rallies To Support Senator Removed From Floor
After Republican Californian senator and former Vietnam War refugee Janet Nguyen was physically removed from the Senate floor for criticizing an anti-Vietnam War activist, GOP lawmakers, veterans and hundreds of…
A Generational Threat: The Disturbing American History Of Anti-Asian Discrimination
…The Fifties brought the Korean War, and the Sixties the Vietnam War; anti-Asian propaganda and dehumanizing tropes were recycled and reused across each of these conflicts and applied to new…
My mother, Alzheimer’s, and Vietnamese Cooking
…four, I remember Vietnamese ministers, generals, visiting dignitaries, and yes, even American stars-Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, and Jennifer Jones-had grace at our dining tables during the Vietnam War. And Mother-with…
Must-Read of the Week: ‘The Lotus and the Storm’ by Lan Cao
From the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel Monkey Bridge comes The Lotus and the Storm, another look at the Vietnam War and its aftermath, this time from the…
Obama makes historic first visit to Laos
…the problems caused by unexploded ordnance (UXO), which was the byproduct of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, the United States dropped more than two million tons…
‘Insurrecto’ Is A Bitingly Vicious And Funny Romp Through Filipino History
…the location to make his Vietnam War film “Apocalypse Now.” Brasi has dragged his wife, the fragile and wraith-like Virginie, along with the child version of Chiara to the jungle…
First Asian-American U.S. Marine Dies at 88
…forces on November 2 earned him numerous military honors, including the second highest military decoration, the Navy Cross. Lee later fought in the Vietnam War, where he earned a Purple…
5 Things We Learned From Justin Cho And David So’s ‘Gook’ AMA
…made a racial slur during the Korean War, which then carried over to the Vietnam War. It’s our word. If I didn’t address the title in the film, I think…