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  • The Needs of Others

    Human Rights, International Organizations, and Intervention in Rwanda, 1994

    by Kelly McFall ...
    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    The Needs of Others is set at the UN in 1994, where diplomats learn of violence in Rwanda. Representing UN ambassadors, human rights organizations, journalists, and public opinion leaders, students wrestle with difficult questions based on an unsteady trickle of information: Should the UN peacekeeping mission be withdrawn or strengthened? Is the fighting in Rwanda a civil war or something else? ... Read more

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  • Changing the Game

    Title IX, Gender, and College Athletics

    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    Changing the Game is set at a fictional university in the mid-1990s. A debate over the role of athletics quickly expands to encompass demands that women’s sports and athletes receive more resources and opportunities. The result is a firestorm of controversy on and off campus. Drawing on congressional testimonies from the Title IX hearings, players advance their views in student government meetings ... Read more

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  • Monuments and Memory-Making

    The Debate over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1981-1982

    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    Monuments and Memory-Making immerses students in the conversations and controversies that emerged as the nation grappled with how best to memorialize what was at the time the longest military conflict in US history. As students engage in the historical process of memory-making, they will work to reconcile the varied and often contradictory voices that rose up after the fall of Saigon. Students ... Read more

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  • The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990

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    A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War

    Stunning in its insight, On Strategy is required reading not just for everyone who is interested in the Vietnam War, but for anyone who is concerned about the place of the United States on the world stage and how America can, and more importantly cannot, employ its immense military force to help bring peace to an increasingly troubled world.“On Stategy is just about the best thing I have read on ... Read more

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  • LBJ and Vietnam

    A Different Kind of War

    Series series An Administrative History of the Johnson Presidency
    "[A] compelling analysis . . . A solid addition to our understanding of the Vietnam War and a president." — Publishers WeeklyThe Vietnam War remains a divisive memory for Americans—partisans on all sides still debate why it was fought, how it could have been better fought, and whether it could have been won at all.In this major study, a noted expert on the war brings a needed objectivity to these ... Read more

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  • Lyndon Johnson's War

    America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968

    Series series Hill and Wang Critical Issues
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  • Rethinking Camelot

    JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture

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  • Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II

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    Well established on college reading lists, Prisoners Without Trial presents a concise introduction to a shameful chapter in American history: the incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. With a new preface, a new epilogue, and expanded recommended readings, Roger Daniels’s updated edition examines a tragic event in our nation’s past and thoughtfully asks if it could ... Read more

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  • The Liberal Hour

    Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s

    An engaging be hind-the-scenes look at the lesser-known forces that fueled the profound social reforms of the 1960sProvocative and incisive , The Liberal Hour reveals how Washington, so often portrayed as a target of reform in the 1960s, was in fact the era's most effective engine of change. The movements of the 1960s have always drawn the most attention from the decade's chroniclers, but it was ... Read more

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  • Vietnam

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