The American War

Episode 1: “We are possessed by a desire not to know about Vietnam.”

Sep 18, 2017

22:46

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Introduction

2min

The American War

4min

The Vietnam War: A Movie About It

2min

The Unmediated Access to the Second World War

3min

The Complications of the Vietnam War

2min

The Importance of French History in American History

2min

The Rejection of the Idea That the Americans Are Like the French

2min

The Hypocrisy of the American Fear of Revolution

2min

The Importance of Leiswan in the North Vietnamese Strategy

2min

10.

The Making of the Vietnam War

3min

In the premiere episode of “The American War,” Alyssa talks to Ken Burns and Harvard professor Fredrik Logevall about Episode One of "The Vietnam War," discussing the stories Americans tell ourselves about what happened to our country during the Vietnam.

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