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As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...

The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era fir...

In a discussion of his new book, Mark Bowden (author of the best-seller Black Hawk Down) details one of...

For many U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, music was the connection between battlefront and homefront and helped them cope with the complexities of the war...

During the Vietnam conflict, battles on the homefront went beyond anti-war protests. Activists gathered in support of many cultural movements: civi...

The war experience in Vietnam varied greatly, depending on when and where you served. A panel of military veterans, convened by the U.S. Ar...

Former ambassador David F. Lambertson, who served in Saigon in the mid-1960s as a member of the American embassy’s political secti...

As the Vietnam War escalated in the 1960s, Hollywood was struggling financially and the longtime studio system was collapsing. Into the vacuum step...

U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big...