General Westmoreland wanted nuclear weapons sent to South Vietnam in the event of defeat, though President Johnson swiftly ...

The Vietnam War was the first time the United States provided ... The Gulf of Tonkin events are widely considered the catalyst that gave President Johnson Congressional support to enter the ...

March 29 will live on in perpetuity as the day chosen to celebrate the veterans who served during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017 was signed into law by ...

Sitting peacefully amid us in the Pacific Northwest is one of the defining symbols of a trigger-point to America’s involvement in Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s.

The MiG pilots had completely misjudged the Skyraiders, possibly assuming their speed advantage would ensure early ...

The latest release of J.F.K. assassination files so far doesn’t show much—except for the Kennedy name’s continued hold on the ...

On the 60th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s voting rights speech, we are reminded how government can address concerns with ...

US divisive escalation in Vietnam began several months before President Lyndon B. Johnson first deployed ... a resolution which allowed him to enter war in Southeast Asia. By March, 1965, the ...

That’s not quite right. Here is what really happened. We all know that the Vietnam War, which LBJ inherited from his predecessor, John F. Kennedy, was rapidly turning into a huge albatross ...

Military personnel at all levels are now facing the question of whether they will stand up for the military’s independent ...

Bridging history and memory in the classroom. I am now old enough to be teaching the children of my first students. Among that early group were many who had arrived in the United States as “boat ...