The 1986 policy of Doi Moi or “new change” injected reforms into Vietnam similar to Perestroika in the former Soviet Union. Formerly banned articles on Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, and Salvador Dali were ...
Andrew Lam remembers walking along the shore of Vũng Tàu, a small coastal city near Saigon. As the North Vietnamese army was making its way to the capital five decades ago, 11-year-old Lam stood on ...
MINNEAPOLIS - An artist is shedding a different light on the Vietnam war through a new art exhibit at the Minneapolis Art Institute, one through the lens of a Vietnamese American reflecting on what ...
Dan Flavin, “monument 4 for those who have been killed in ambush (to P. K. who reminded me about death)” (1966), red fluorescent light, The Estate of Dan Flavin (© 2018 Stephen Flavin/Artists Rights ...
For many Americans, thoughts of Vietnam arrive as troubled memories: throbbing helicopters, clouds of napalm, body bags, war protests at home and abroad. But, of course, Vietnam has moved on to ...
The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but its effects continue to be felt by people in the United States, and one organization is trying to heal through art. Erin Phuong Steinhauer and her husband, ...
Introduction: The Forgotten Warriors -- 1. Patrol -- 2. Life in the Rear -- 3. Endurance -- 4. The Soldiers -- 5. Contact: The Effects of Combat -- 6. Shattered Bodies, Shattered Minds -- 7. Hueys, ...
It was 1968 and the Vietnam War was raging. Young men were drafted in droves, tens of thousands per month. Laguna Woods resident Jim Gibson was among them. Gibson was barely out of high school when ...
A Grand Forks man whose book delves into the Vietnam War says his goal was "to tell the story in a plain, direct fashion" about a subject he knows well. As a veteran himself, William Watson's book – ...