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Title Understanding and teaching the Vietnam war / edited by John Day Tully, Matthew Masur, Brad Austin
Published Madison, Wisconsin ; London, England : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (367 pages) : illustrations
Series Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History
Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history.
Contents Introduction : key questions and enduring debates -- Reflections on teaching the Vietnam War. Teaching the Vietnam War : a life history / Marilyn B. Young ; Teaching the Vietnam War : recollections and reflections from more than thirty years / George C. Herring -- Methods and sources. Putting students in "their shoes" : a decision-making approach to teaching the Vietnam War / Kevin O'Reilly ; Understanding the Vietnam era through music / Hugo A. Keesing ; "We must bear a good deal of responsibility for it" : the White House tapes and the war in Vietnam / Mitchell B. Lerner ; Movies and the Vietnam War / Scott Laderman ; The books we carry : teaching the Vietnam War / Maureen Ryan ; Teaching the Vietnam War in the Internet age : libraries, websites, and information literacy / Richard Hume Werking and Brian C. Etheridge ; Hearts, minds, and voices : the Vietnam War and oral history / Andrew Darien -- Understanding and teaching specific content. Nationalism, communism, and the Vietnam War / Matthew Masur ; From the French to the Americans / Kathryn C. Statler ; Teaching the antiwar movement : confronting popular myths, teaching complexity / David Steigerwald ; The Vietnamese sides of the "American" war / Tuan Hoang ; "America's most loyal allies" : the Hmong and the War / Chia Youyee Vang ; Vietnamese Americans in the context of the Vietnam War / Karin Aguilar-San Juan ; The Tet Offensive in the classroom / Andrew Wiest ; Teaching the collective memory and lessons of the Vietnam War / David Fitzgerald and David Ryan ; Teaching the Vietnam War in secondary schools and survey classrooms / Stephen Armstrong
Summary Taken as a whole, this book will help teachers at all levels navigate through cultural touchstones, myths, political debates, and the myriad trouble spots enmeshed within the national memory of one of the most significant moments in American history
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Study and teaching -- United States
HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
Study skills
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Tully, John Day, editor.
Masur, Matthew, editor.
Austin, Brad, 1972- editor.
LC no. 2012040084
ISBN 9780299294137
0299294137
0299294145
9780299294144
9781299870383
1299870384