The Vietnam Tapes: The Presidential Recordings of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon
Sponsored by UVA's Center for the Liberal Arts and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation
Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia
July 11-17,2010
Monday, July 12 - Replacing France
Herring, America's Longest War, 3-87.
McMahon, Major Problems, 1-119,274-283.
Tuesday, July 13 - Commitment
Herring, America's Longest War, 89-129.
McMahon, Major Problems, 12-154,283-291
Wednesday, July 14 - Escalation
Herring, America's Longest War, 131-169.
McMahon, Major Problems, 155-197.
Thursday, July 15 - The Big War
Herring, America's Longest War, 171-268.
McMahon, Major Problems, 198-235,291-356,401-409.
Friday, July 16 - Vietnamization
Herring, America's Longest War, 271-368.
McMahon, Major Problems, 357-400, 410-435.
Saturday, July 17 - Legacies
McMahon, Major Problems, 512-540.
Group Presentations
Readings
Herring, George C. America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975,
ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002), 37.81.
McMahon, Robert J. Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War,
Mifflin, 2008), $66.99.
4th
4th
ed. (Houghton