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This week in history: My Lai massacre 50 years ago

March 12, 2018 By Special to People’s World

American soldiers brutally slaughtered more than 500 unarmed civilians at My Lai, one of a cluster of small villages located near the northern coast of South Vietnam.

Vietnam: 50 years after the Tet offensive

March 5, 2018 By C.J. Atkins

The war-torn capital of a despised dictatorship only half-a-century ago, Ho Chi Minh City is now the economic powerhouse for a country on the move.

This week in history: Paris Peace Accords signed, Vietnam War draws down

January 26, 2018 By Special to People’s World

Forty-five years ago, on Jan. 27, 1973, the Paris Peace Accords effectively removed the United States from the conflict in Vietnam.

Burns and Novick’s PBS series “The Vietnam War”: Cautionary viewing advised

October 2, 2017 By Tony Long

As a human story, it’s hard not to have sympathy for the majority of the people in this documentary, regardless of ideology.

Lessons not learned: The Vietnamese experience in the Vietnam War

September 19, 2017 By Ben Sears

American authors have primarily viewed the war as part of the Cold War chess game, largely neglecting the experience of the Vietnamese people.