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Vietnam: The Definitive History of the War by Robert K. Brigham

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Vietnam: The Definitive History of the War

Learn25: History

by Robert K. Brigham

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Language English

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A gripping and authoritative 24-lecture history course on the Vietnam War from the award-winning professor who cowrote Argument without End with Robert McNamara.

Using newly available archival and source material from the United States and Vietnam, Vassar College professor Robert K. Brigham helps you grapple with the legacy of the Vietnam War today.

Based on more than 100 trips to Vietnam and extensive interviews with key players from all sides, Prof. Brigham weaves vivid biographical sketches and rich anecdotes into recorded history. His masterful storytelling will help you look behind common assumptions about the conflict.

Not since the Civil War had the American national consciousness been as strained as it was by the conflict in Southeast Asia. Indeed, the controversies that the Vietnam War spurred on the home front are more familiar to many Americans than the policies and motives that guided the conflict. Vietnam: The Definitive History of the War fills that gap. The provocative questions Prof. Brigham raises will help you reexamine the war from today’s vantage.

Throughout, Prof. Brigham sheds light on the United States and its place in the world today. Under his expert guidance, you will gain fresh understanding of this momentous chapter in American history.

This course is part of the Learn25 collection.

History Cooking Nonfiction

Robert K. Brigham, Ph.D., is the Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations at Vassar College where he has been a faculty member since 1994. He specializes in the history of U.S. foreign policy with particular emphasis on the Vietnam War. Prof. Brigham has won several teaching awards and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

He is the author of nine books on the Vietnam War, including Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam (2018); Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American Power (2008); and Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy(1999), which he co-wrote with former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, and Brown University’s James Blight.

The book, Argument Without End, served as the backdrop for Errol Morris’s Academy Award-winning 2003 documentary, The Fog of War. Since 1989, Prof. Brigham has made more than 50 trips to Vietnam to conduct research on the War. He has lectured at many leading institutions, including Johns Hopkins University, Cambridge University, and the United States Military Academy at West Point.