American History Too!

On the twelfth podcast of American History Too! we wade through the quagmire of the Vietnam War.  In discussing arguably the first war that the United States ever lost, we consider the divisions the war created at home and how Vietnam Veterans were treated by the general public. We also chat extensively about the Kent State Shootings - ‘the most popular murders ever committed in the United States’ - and the backlash to the antiwar movement.

Find out why the US was in Vietnam, why Great Britain never joined the coalition fighting in Vietnam, and Malcolm explains why the massive hit movie Aliens is in fact a film about the war in Southeast Asia!

All this and much, much more on this week’s bumper length American History Too!

Cheers,

Mark and Malcolm

Reading and Viewing List

-          Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Peace now!: American society and the ending of the Vietnam War (1999)

-          Stewart O’Nan, The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of Fiction and Nonfiction on the War (1998)

-          Platoon (1986)

-          Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

-          Coming Home (1978)

-          Apocalypse Now (1979)

-          Aliens (1986)