This History U course covers the long struggle for Vietnam waged between 1940 and 1975, with particular attention to the period of direct American involvement.
Course Instructor: Professor Fredrik Logevall, Harvard University
Eligibility: High school students
Image Source: United Press International, American Marines in South Vietnam, 1966 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC09795.04)
History U
Free for high school students
This History U course covers the long struggle for Vietnam waged between 1940 and 1975, with particular attention to the period of direct American involvement. The events will be considered in their relationship to Vietnam’s history, to US politics and society, and to the concurrent Cold War. The course begins with a discussion of the French colonization of Vietnam and the nation’s fight for independence before delving into America’s expanding involvement in the conflict and the legacy of the Vietnam War.
The views expressed in this course are those of Dr. Fredrik Logevall.
Zachary MacIntosh explains what you will learn in this course.
Fredrik Logevall, Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University
Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University, where he holds joint appointments in the Kennedy School of Government and the Department of History. His book Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam, won the Pulitzer Prize for History as well as the Francis Parkman Prize, the Arthur Ross Award, and other prizes. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the London Review of Books, and Foreign Affairs, among others. A native of Stockholm, Sweden, Logevall is a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
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