History Courses For Dr. Christopher C. Lovett
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History Courses For Dr. Christopher C. Lovett |
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Updated as of 2 October 05 Today in History: On October 2, 1780, Major John André, a British spy associated with Benedict Arnold, was executed on this day in history. Quote of the Day: "In my view we are much worse off now than when we went into Iraq. This is not a partisan position. I voted for these guys." A senior figure at a military-sponsored think tank as told to James Fallows in "Bush's Lost Year" in The Atlantic Monthly (Oct. 2004) Take the Ann Coulter Quiz Where are you politically? Take the Neocon Quiz and find out. "History is Far too Important to be left to History Professors" Teaching isn't such a novel idea
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was one of the most divisive wars in the history of the United States. The war divided generations, families, and classes. All told, the United States lost over 58,000 men and women in a fruitless struggle to halt the spread of Vietnamese nationalism, while spending anywhere from $112 to $155 billion to defeat North Vietnam. That total increases when widows benefits, pensions, and other indirect costs of the war are included. If we add those indirect costs the actual cost reaches a staggering $925 billion! The Second Vietnamese War has received very little attention in most history classes on both the secondary and post-secondary levels. Often there is not enough time at the end of the semester to do justice to this pivotal period in U.S. and world history, which drove one president from office and contributed to the fall of another. The public often fails to realize that this war occurred at a time of great change during the 1960s, not only in the United States, but also worldwide. Those changes involved the quest for civil and political rights for African Americans, the development of a student protest movement, the rise of feminism, and the counterculture, highlighted by the birth of the Age of Aquarius as seen by the hippies in the East Village and Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. America's longest war was fought within this milieu. It is the purpose of this course to explain and to outline the conflict, and to highlight the diplomatic, military, political, and social aspects of the war. Even more disturbing is that United States has embarked on another unpopular military action, this time not in Southeast Asia, but the Middle East. Are the two wars similar as some contend? If so, how? If not, why? What were the lessons, if any, of Vietnam? Those and many other engaging questions will be reviewed during the course of the semester. To do that, students are expected to read the assigned readings, discuss the materials in the chat room and answer the questions posted on the discussion board. This page will include the texts required, graduate readings, bibliography of the Vietnam War, links to other sites, glossary, chronology, assignments, midterm examination, final exam, new and noteworthy books, PowerPoint notes, and a filmography.
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