Vietnam War

History 570 (old 153a)
Peace, War, and Defense 570 (old 117)
Asia 570 (old 153)

The Vietnam War

Spring 2007

Instructor: Michael H. Hunt
Office: 460 Hamilton; 962-2384
Office hours: Mon., 1:15-3; Wed., 1:15-3;

available at other times by appointment

Email: mhhunt@email.unc.edu
Professional website: http://www.unc.edu/~mhhunt/

Lectures: Mon. and Wed., 12-12:50, Chapman Hall 201 
Recitations: Fri., 10-10:50; 11-11:50; 12-12:50 
Teaching assistants:

David Cline <dpcline@email.unc.edu>
Rosalie Genova <rgenova@email.unc.edu>
Bethany Keenan <bkeenan@email.unc.edu>

Apprentice teacher:

Edward Geist <egeist@email.unc.edu>

Late addition (by popular demand): American and Vietnamese memorials (3 pp. of images in pdf format)

Schedule for walk-in clinics on the eve of the final exam:

Wed., 2 May, 1-3 (Keenan in 209 Manning);

Thurs., 3 May, 1-3 pm (Cline in 503 Hamilton);

Fri., 4 May 11-12 (Genova in 403 Dey);

Fri., 4 May, 2-4 (Hunt in 460 Hamilton);

Sun., 6 May, 12-1 (Hunt in 460 Hamilton).

Our motto: you bring the ailing questions; we’ll suggest a cure!

syllabus
(in pdf format)

lecture outline
(regularly updated; Word doc.; password protected)

Assigned materials

All books listed on the syllabus are in Student Stores and Undergrad Reserve.

For access to items on electronic reserve (listed on the syllabus as "er"), click here.

Items listed on the syllabus as "cw" appear below. They are arranged in the order they appear on the syllabus and are bunched by topic/task. All are password protected (use the password associated with your UNC onyen), and most are in pdf format. Please print out all materials, especially materials assigned for discussion, for ease of reference in class.

chronology
list of abbreviations
map

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film assignments (by recitation leader)
"Guidance on Response Paragraph"
"General Tips on Good Writing"

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Documents on "U.S. Decision-making and the Vietnam War"
Harold Ford, "Why CIA Analysts Were So Doubtful about Vietnam"

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"Guidelines for short papers" and MS Word version of worksheet A & B
sample papers

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Documents on "Vietnamese Perspectives on the Vietnam War"
Stein Tønnesson, "Tracking Multi-Directional Dominoes"

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midterm exam study questions

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Fighting for the Revolution: Two Perspectives

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"Voices from the Anti-War Movement"
Graph on "Trends in Support for the War"

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Weinberger doctrine

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final exam study questions

Additional resources on the web

"The Wars for Viet Nam: 1945 to 1975"
(overview, documents, and links assembled by Robert Brigham at Vassar College)

"Vietnam Online"
(includes transcripts, a timeline, and other basic information; created by PBS/WGBH in conjunction with "Vietnam: A Television History")

The Vietnam Project
(website for an active research and education center at Texas Tech University)

Vietnam War Internet Project
(an educational site created by developed by John Tegtmeier and further developed by John and Frank Vaughan)

"Revisiting Vietnam"
(American RadioWorks website for a program on legacies of the war produced by Deborah George)

"The Sixties Project"
(material on the upheaval of the 1960s, including personal narratives, bibliographies, and links; maintained at the University of Virginia)

"Vietnamese Perspectives on the Vietnam War"
(an annotated bibliography by John C. Schafer at Humboldt State University)

"Vietnam War Bibliography"
(excellent listing of English-language sources maintained by Edwin Moise of Clemson University)

"Vietnam WWW Virtual Library"
(the fullest online reference collection on VIetnam going well beyond the war; edited by Rob Hurle and Vern Weitzel at Australian National University)

"The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall USA"
"The Virtual Wall Vietnam Veterans Memorial"
Vietnam Veterans Memorials Around The World
(both websites offer searchable casualty information, remembrances, photographs, stories)

"Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund"
(information about the VVMF, the Wall, links to other sites, news)

"Vietnam Veterans Homepage"
(a forum for exchanging information, stories, etc. on the experience of veterans)

"Women in Vietnam"
(focused on American women who served in

Vietnam

)

U.S. Military Academy map collection
(good on Indochina conflict)

(tracks and translates latest releases from archives of all sides in the Cold War; includes material for Vietnam)

National Security Archives
(promotes declassification of U.S. government documents; some material on the Vietnam War)

Resources for the Study of International Relations and Foreign Policy
(includes documentation on the Vietnam War assembled by Vincent Ferraro at Mount Holyoke College)

Cambodian Genocide Program
(impressive collection based at Yale University)

"The Vietnam War: Starting Points for Internet Research"
"East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources"
(two valuable collections -- the first at Penn State, Leigh Valley, and the second at the University of Redlands)

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