2:30-3:45P       TR        BH137

Which stories about this war should make up its history?  Should they
be the stories told by the Vietnamese who experienced it, the French,
or the Americans?  Those about frontline war, which soldiers fought,
the war that civilians knew, or the war of the spies and covert
forces?  Vietnamese and Russian journalists, US journalists, or
western but not American journalists?  Should these stories be the
ones told in the movies?  Or the ones told by students in the US and
Europe, who opposed this war?  Was it a war for independence, a war to
preserve colonialism, or a war to prevent the spread of communist?

This course begins with a survey of the chronology of conflict in
Vietnam, and then plunges into an attempt to discover which versions
of the war should be credited.

Textbooks include Vietnam Reader (O'Nan), and Historical Atlas of the
Vietnam War (Summers).

W200 will be a small seminar of 15 students, and is limited to
freshmen, sophomores, and juniors only.