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A Constitutional Question: Do American Presidents Have the Power to Declare War?

A Constitutional Question: Do American Presidents Have the Power to Declare War?

Jill Lepore Considers a Vietnam-Era Precedent to a Timely Presidential Problem

By Jill Lepore | July 1, 2026

From My Hometown to Vietnam, Searching For My Biological Father

From My Hometown to Vietnam, Searching For My Biological Father

Robert K. Brigham Remembers His Decades-Long Quest to Unearth the Truth About His Family History

By Robert K. Brigham | May 14, 2026

Fighting Abroad and At Home: Remembering the Experiences of Black Vietnam Veterans

Fighting Abroad and At Home: Remembering the Experiences of Black Vietnam Veterans

Wil Haygood on the Long History of Black Heroism and Service—and the Current Efforts to Erase It

By Wil Haygood | February 6, 2026

Five Books About the Most Important Photographs of the Vietnam War—and the Photographers Who Took Them

Five Books About the Most Important Photographs of the Vietnam War—and the Photographers Who Took Them

An Essential Reading List from Gary Knight

By Gary Knight | December 19, 2025

Bringing the War Home: How Tim O'Brien Approached the Art of Moral Consequence

Bringing the War Home: How Tim O'Brien Approached the Art of Moral Consequence

Alex Vernon on the Emergence of One of America's Early Literary Voices of the Vietnam War

By Alex Vernon | May 27, 2025

The Acid Queen: Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the Invisible Woman of Western Psychedelia

The Acid Queen: Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the Invisible Woman of Western Psychedelia

Susannah Cahalan on the Disappearing Acts and Unseen Influences of Timothy Leary’s Wife

By Susannah Cahalan | April 23, 2025

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So You Want to Flee to Canada: Revisiting a Classic Guide to Leaving America

By James Folta | March 28, 2025

Fictionalizing the Disenfranchisement and Desperation of the Vietnam War Generation

By Nicole Cuffy | March 18, 2025

How the Vietnam War Exposed America’s Military and Political Vulnerabilities

By James A. Warren | March 14, 2025

An Unwinnable War: Why the United States Was Doomed To Fail in Vietnam

An Unwinnable War: Why the United States Was Doomed To Fail in Vietnam

Geoffrey Wawro Explains the Faulty Reasoning Behind America's Decision to Intervene in Southeast Asia

By Geoffrey Wawro | October 30, 2024

What Organized Labor Movements Today Need to Learn from the Cold War Era’s Failures

What Organized Labor Movements Today Need to Learn from the Cold War Era’s Failures

Jeff Schuhrke on Creating a Global Working-Class Movement

By Jeff Schuhrke | September 25, 2024

Memories Lost and Found: On the Photography of Binh Danh

Memories Lost and Found: On the Photography of Binh Danh

“Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion.”

By Binh Danh | December 11, 2023

How the Vietnam War Accelerated Generational Divides in America

How the Vietnam War Accelerated Generational Divides in America

Drew Gilpin Faust on the Gradual Radicalization of Anti-War Student Activism

By Drew Gilpin Faust | August 24, 2023

The Vietnam War, 50 Years On: A Reading List

The Vietnam War, 50 Years On: A Reading List

George Black Recommends Frederick Logevall, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, and More

By George Black | April 28, 2023

How Yayoi Kusama Transformed Her Terrors Into Art

How Yayoi Kusama Transformed Her Terrors Into Art

Will Gompertz on the Complex Life and Work of an Iconic Japanese Artist

By Will Gompertz | April 5, 2023

Ralph White on His Wartime Efforts to Rescue Vietnamese Civilians

Ralph White on His Wartime Efforts to Rescue Vietnamese Civilians

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 5, 2023

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